| Full given name: | Rondi Anne Reed (Confirmation name is Veronica) |
| Hometown: | Dixon, IL |
| Zodiac sign: | Scorpio/Virgo rising/Aquarius Moon |
| Audition song: | "When You're Good to Mama" (Chicago) |
| Special skills: | Dialects (real and imagined) |
| First Broadway show ever saw: | 42nd Street with Jerry Orbach - LOVED it. |
| If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be? | SO many...original Company & original Sweeney Todd would be at the top of my list I think. |
| Current show you have been recommending to friends: | Next to Normal |
| Favorite show tune: | Too hard! I love too many for different reasons...OK, Paulo singing "This Nearly Was Mine," Brian Stokes Mitchell "New Music," Ethel Merman "Rose's Turn," Dame Stritch's "Ladies Who Lunch," Mary Martin "Never-Neverland," "Mama Look Sharp," it never ends... |
| MAC or PC? | MAC girl - 2 year anniversary, I am late to the tech party this century. |
| Last book you read: | "Quantum Change" |
| Must-see TV show: | "Mad Men" (AMC) |
| Last good movie you saw: | "Catch Me If You Can" (on cable) |
| Favorite board game: | Scrabble |
| Performer you would drop everything to go see: | Tom Jones or Bette Midler |
| Pop culture guilty pleasure: | Watching Lady GaGa videos |
| First stage kiss: | Too long ago to remember....but Wm. L Petersen in Fool for Love was HOT... |
| Favorite post-show meal: | Terracotta Shrimp at Sosa anytime |
| How you got your Equity card: | The Coarse Acting Show at Steppenwolf, Joan Allen & I both got our cards on it - in a show that one reviewer said: "All parties involved should be shot at dawn." True True True. |
| Worst flubbed line: | I made up song lyrics in Wicked while the entire ensemble nearly lost it. And I did not miss a beat, though the conductor was a bit surprised. |
| Worst costume ever: | Plaid plaid plaid Penny dresses in You Can't Take It With You...something that had to do with a concept....right. |
| Pet's name: | Boo Radley Reed is a mutt-dog from Anti-Cruelty in Chicago, 8 years old. |
| Favorite junk food: | Tate's choc. chip cookies. I will have to leave NYC just to get away from them. |
| Who would play you in the movie? | Kathy Bates or me |
| Worst job you ever had: | Bookbinding repair for school district in non-air-conditioned classroom in Illinois in July when I was 16. |
| TV or commercial gig you most enjoyed: | HBO both times: "Normal" and "You Don't Know Jack," also Streetcar for CBS w/ Jessica Lange & Alec Baldwin. |
| Leading lady role you've been dying to play: | I am a character woman, but in my fantasy, Cleopatra in Will's play. |
| What magical power would you love to have? | Able to transport myself (and my dog maybe) through the system Harry Potter uses, and preferably to the Coast of Maine. |
