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PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Tovah Feldshuh
By Ernio Hernandez
06 May 2009
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Tovah Feldshuh
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Tovah Feldshuh — who stars in Broadway's Irena's Vow — 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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Terri Sue Feldshuh
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Hometown:
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Scarsdale, NY
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Zodiac sign:
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Capricorn
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Audition song:
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"Pink Taffeta Sample Size 10" by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields
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Special skills:
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Cartwheel, five languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew), piano, horseback riding and girls soccer coach (ages 5-10)
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First Broadway show ever saw:
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Damn Yankees starring Gwen Verdon
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Favorite show tune:
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In honor of my parents, anything by Irving Berlin. I still cry when I am asked to sing "God Bless America" and in first grade at the Quaker Ridge School, to test our musicality, I chose to sing "White Christmas" to Mr. Davies, our music teacher.
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MAC or PC?
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PC
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Most played song on your iPod:
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My vocal warmup from Dr. Lucille Rubin and voice teacher Kim Stern, plus anything musical I am currently working on (i.e. from Tovah: Out Of Her Mind!)
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One CD you couldn't live without:
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"Gershwin Plays Gershwin," the early Streisand albums, Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording
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Last book you read:
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"Strokes of Existence" by Mari Gorman which connects acting to uncharted realms of real life.
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Must-see TV show:
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"The Tudors" and "Big Love" (one man, lots of wives—not my thing, but happy to watch). Also, "60 Minutes."
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Last good movie you saw:
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"Milk" and "The Reader"
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Performer you would drop everything to go see:
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In my early years, Irene Worth; Today - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Denis O'Hare, Meryl Streep, Joan Allen, among others; also, anything directed by Jack O'Brien or Scott Schwartz.
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Pop culture guilty pleasure:
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People magazine
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First stage kiss:
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Little Mary Sunshine and Death Takes a Holiday at National Music Camp, Interlochen, MI.
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Favorite pre-/post-show meal:
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I try never to eat anything remotely unhealthy before a show. Post-show: Eleven Madison, Orso, or Sardi's, where I also try to never eat anything unhealthy. I am constantly walking around with baggies of any "unlimited" vegetable.
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How you got your Equity card:
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As a McKnight Fellow at the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
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Worst onstage mishap:
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Theatre by the Sea, Matunuck, RI – as Sophie in Star Spangled Girl by Neil Simon – during a quick change, for some reason done onstage – the lights came on too soon. I leave the rest to your imagination.
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Who have you played on "Law & Order"? Which edition?
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I have played the continuing role of Defense Attorney Danielle Melnick for 13 seasons (Emmy nominated 2005)
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Worst costume ever:
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My most unsightly: dressed as a homeless person living in a refrigerator box on a New York City sidewalk for "The Cosby Mysteries." But the truth is, I would not dub any costume I wear the "worst costume," because they clothe the characters I love to play.
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Cats or dogs?
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Cats. I had cats (Rusty I and Rusty II) as a child. We also had a horse, Wildwood King.
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Favorite cereal:
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Honey Nut Cheerios, but only when I indulge myself—usually it's plain Cheerios with half a banana.
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Who would play you in the movie?
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I would be honored and flattered if Keri Russell played me in a movie, because we have the same heart-shaped face. I think she's a wonderful talent.
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Worst job you ever had:
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Equity deputy. All that paperwork and I didn't even get a badge!
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TV or commercial gig you most enjoyed:
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Commercial gig: Juggling bowls full of food wrapped in Handi-Wrap.
TV gig: playing Katharine Hepburn opposite Tommy Lee Jones in "The Amazing Howard Hughes." Both jobs brought me an invitation onto national talk shows.
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Leading lady role you've been dying to play
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Any of the monarchs and Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw. I now weigh what I weighed in 9th grade – 114 lbs., and I am running around Irena's Vow pretending I am 17, so I live in hope. Every day, you must ask yourself, "What age would you be if you did not know the age you are?"
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