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PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Anika Noni Rose
By Ernio Hernandez
05 Mar 2008
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Anika Noni Rose
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| photo by Andrew Macpherson | Anika Noni Rose — who co-stars in the current Broadway revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof — fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop culture tidbits.
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Full given name:
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Anika Noni Rose
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Hometown:
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Bloomfield, CT
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Zodiac sign:
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Virgo
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Audition monologue:
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Whatever works for that particular audition. I don't have monologues just sitting, available in my mind's back pocket. I admire people who can do that - who can just whip out "To be or not to be" at a party....I don't want to hear it, but I do admire it.
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Special skills:
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I can speak in different dialects, and I can pick up languages pretty quickly. I can do inventive tongue curls, make my eye look like it's wandering, and play like a child!
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First Broadway show ever saw:
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The Wiz
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Current show you have been recommending to friends:
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Passing Strange and In the Heights
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Favorite show tune:
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"Be a Lion," "Don't Rain on My Parade," "With Every Breath I Take," "Simple Joys," "I Loves You Porgy," "If I Could Feel," "The President is Dead," "Climb Every Mountain," "No Bad News." Ok, the whole original Broadway recording from The Wiz...there are so many songs!
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MAC or PC?
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Mac all day! (But pissed that my Flip Ultra doesn't wish to be compatible. It's '08, people, make it work!!!)
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Most played song on your iPod:
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Jill Scott's "Hate on Me"
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Last book you read:
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Either "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz, or Pete Hamill's "North River," both of which I loved.
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Last good movie you saw:
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"Juno"
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Favorite board/card game:
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Cranium
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Performer you would drop everything to go see:
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Ledisi
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Pop culture guilty pleasure:
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Every now and then I bop down the street (hard!) to "Wake me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham!
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First stage kiss:
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I was Muriel in Ah, Wilderness! and had a sweet/very chaste kiss with my leading man.
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Favorite pre-show meal:
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As long as it's good food, I don't care, but lately I've had a hankering for the teriyaki chicken (with coconut rice instead of potatoes) from Ruby Foos. If it's pre-show, my buddy Zach makes sure it comes to the table quick and hot!
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How you got your Equity card:
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I got my Equity card in Robert O'Hara's Insurrection: Holding History at the Geary Theater. Embarrassingly, I got it again for Cat, because after traveling the damn globe for a year, a few things lapsed on me...oops.
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Worst flubbed line/missed cue/onstage mishap:
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Well, in Caroline, or Change I was supposed to sing "..and cicadas in the pecan trees.." However, on this particular day I lent angelic tone to "..and tomatoes in the pecan trees.." By the time I got back to my dressing room at intermission, there were three perfectly ripe tomatoes, on the vine, sitting on my dressing room table. (*see attached evidence) [below]
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Worst costume ever:
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I've been lucky so far...maybe what I wore in Eli's Comin'.
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Cats or dogs?
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Cats.
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Favorite cereal:
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Raisin Nut Bran, although I'm now allergic to nuts, and I think it's been discontinued.
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Worst job you ever had:
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In college, I was a greeter at Bennigans, which lasted about three weeks. I got nice tips, but had to share them and couldn't stand going home smelling like monte cristo. Not cute.
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What leading lady role have you been dying to play?
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I've always wanted to play Cleopatra in either stage or film. I am a great fan of Elizabeth Taylor, and she was beautiful in the film, but she sure didn't grow up near the Nile River. Can you imagine the sunburn?
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*A gift from Anika Noni Rose's Caroline, or Change cohorts.
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