We are back after a few weeks of r&r with Tony winner Joanna Gleason. The brilliant actor and singer invited Anne and Damian to the Connecticut farm she shares with her Oscar nominated hubby, Chris Sarandon where we noshed on panzanella salad and on Joanna’s meaty oeuvre. You Might Know Her From Into The Woods, I Love My Wife, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Wedding Planner, Boogie Nights, Friends, Hannah and Her Sisters, Bette, Nick & Nora, The West Wing, and her cabaret show Out of the Eclipse. Joanna opens up about working with Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, loathing LA and finding her own path on the East Coast, and her foray into directing. Happy Pride, chicken tikkas!

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Discussed this week 

SATC “Hot Child in the City” (Nick Gilder) is used on Season 3 ep 15, not the Fleet Week ep as Anne erroneously stated. WHOOPS! 

NYC Dyke March 

Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson getting monuments in NYC

Julius’ Bar

Cubbyhole

Cara Delevingne & Ashley Benson carrying their sex bench 

Nancy Meyers’ kitchens

Chris Sarandon 

Panzanella salad

Joanna’s IMDB || IBDB

Chip Zien & Joanna as the Baker & Baker’s Wife

Filmed broadway production of Into the Woods 

Joanna’s upcoming 54 below show Out of the Eclipse (July 2, 5, 6)

Joanna w/ The Moontones

I Love My Wife (Jim Naughton, Lenny Baker)

Into the Woods (dir: Rob Marshall) 

Joanna wins a Tony

Love and War (1992-95) Diane English 

Louie Anderson 

Temporarily Yours (1997) w/ Debi  Mazar, Seth Green, Michael Patrick King

Oh, Baby (1998-2000) w/ Cynthia Stevenson, Jessica Walter

Bette (2000) w/ Lindsay Lohan, Kevin Dunn

“Metabolically didn’t like California”

The Normal Heart (The Public) 

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Broadway)

The Royal Family (Ahmanson)

Nick and Nora the famous flop

Arthur Laurents (librettist: West Side Story, Gypsy; screenwriter: Rope, The Way We Were, Turning Point)

Boogie Nights (dir: Paul Thomas Anderson)

Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)  & Crimes & Misdemeanors (1989)

Last Vegas, Poms, Book Club, First Wives Club

Joanna’s posse: Judith Light, Tina Fey, Jessica Walter, Candice Bergen, Stockard Channing, Bette Midler

Ocean’s 8

Joanna’s father, Monty Hall hosted Let’s Make a Deal 

Joanna in Password

James Holzhauer on Jeopardy

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg with Stockard Channing