Christine Ebersole talks all things Grey Gardens, Bob Hearts Abishola, Tootsie & SNL. This Broadway legend is as much fun as she is tenacious, and impressed us how she took her career into her own hands and became a Producer. Join Behind the Awards for Christine’s stories of her 50 year career. 

Eila & Bruce also chat about Jonathan Groff’s Tony win for Merrily We Roll Along, Being the Tony Awards, and listener picks for Frank N Further Dream Casting in Rocky Horror.

Christine Ebersole recognized with a string of honors that includes two Tony Awards, she has appeared in twenty Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, as well as gracing television series and specials, films, concerts, recordings and opera.

 It was for her “dual role of a lifetime” as Edith Beale and Little Edie Beale in Grey Gardens that Ebersole won her second Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, as well as virtually every available Off-Broadway honor. Other memorable New York roles include her Tony-winning turn as Dorothy Brock in the hit revival of 42nd Street, her Tony-nominated portrayal of Elizabeth Arden opposite Patti LuPone in War Paint, her Tony- and Outer Critics Circle-nominated appearance in Dinner at Eight, her Obie-winning and Drama Desk-nominated appearance in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, her performance as Guinevere alongside Richard Harris and Richard Burton in Camelot, and her leading roles in Oklahoma, On the Twentieth Century, Steel Magnolias, The Best Man and the revival of Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit. In 2018 she made her operatic debut under James Conlon’s leadership as the Old Lady in Francesca Zambello’s production of Candide at L.A. Opera. 

Recently starring as Lucille Dolittle, a role based on Lucille Ball, in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar-nominated Licorice Pizza, Ebersole has appeared in numerous feature films. Previous film credits include The Wolf of Wall Street, Amadeus, Black Sheep, Dead Again, Folks!, Ghost Dad, My Girl 2, Richie Rich, Tootsie, True Crime and The Big Wedding, which features her account of her original song “Gently Down The Stream.” Since launching her TV career alongside Eddie Murphy as a regular cast member of Saturday Night Live, Ebersole has also accrued a long list of television credits. Currently starring in Chuck Lorre’s hit CBS sitcom Bob Hearts Abishola, she recently portrayed Estelle Schneider in the award-winning Netflix series The Kominsky Method, and has appeared on American Horror Story, Blue Bloods, Madam Secretary, Murphy Brown, Pose, Search Party, The Colbert Report, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Will & Grace and Gypsy, in which she played Tessie Tura to Bette Midler’s Mama Rose.

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