The self-proclaimed Downtown Diva is here! You Might Know Her From Sex and the City, Addams Family Values and the Broadway productions of Gypsy, The Women, You Can’t Take It With You, and her frequent work with playwright Charles Busch. She is now starring in Tootsie, the Broadway musical. Julie served us effervescent lemonade and told us about making the move from downtown theatre to the Broadway stage, having Bitsy von Muffling written for her, and managing her friendship with Charles off stage.

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Discussed this week

Julie’s IBDB & IMDB

All That Chat - Anne’s fave Broadway message board

Maggie Smith onstage in London:  A German Life

Ben Brantley calling Julie “wonderfully lethargic”

Barbara Hershey through the years

Lola Pashalinski & Charles Ludlam’s Theatre of the Ridiculous

Pakistani playwright, performance artist: Bina Sharif

Eve Arden

Iris Adrian

Playwright, Charles Busch

Meghan Robinson

Dottie Gets Spanked (dir: Todd Haynes)

Sex and the City’s  Bitsy von Muffling

Addams Family Values

Paul Rudnick

Christine Baranski, Harriet Harris

Peter MacNicol in Ghostbusters 2

Christina Ricci

Raul Julia

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Jean Smart

Network heads: Brandon Tartikoff, Les Moonves, Jeff Sagansky

Sex and the City: Michael Patrick King / Cindy Chupack

Sitcom with Harvey Fierstein: Those Two

Gwen Verdon’s IBDB

Amy Sherman Palladino dialogue

Jim Carnahan

Jerry Zaks

Gypsy starring Bernadette Peters, directed by Sam Mendes (2003)

Gypsy overture (2003 Broadway revival. The greatest ever written)

Tootsie the Musical

Peter Bartlett

Producer, Sonia Friedman