It’s a beautiful day with actress, singer, and Tony winner Maryann Plunkett. You Might Know Her From A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Little Women, Center Stage, The Squid and the Whale, and Broadway productions of Me and My Girl, The Crucible, and Sunday in the Park with George. Maryann gave us the skinny on playing the piano to play Joanne Rogers, receiving the highest compliment from legendary playwright Arthur Miller, and enduring the horrors of Los Angeles. Plus we go deep on her guest spot as Lieutenant Commander Susanna Leijten on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Will she be on Picard? We are here to “make it so."

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Discussed this week:

My Sister’s Room

J.R. Crickets

The show that got us our first 1 star review

Maryann married to Jay O Sanders

Joanne Rogers was a concert pianist

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Richard Nelson‘s The Rhinebeck Panorama Plays: The Apple Family Plays (2013); The Gabriels (2017);  The Michaels (2019)

Maryann in Me and My Girl (1986)

Maryann in The Crucible opposite Martin Sheen

"The trouble with America," Arthur Miller said, after seeing her perform in the theater's revival of his "The Crucible" last season, "is that Maryann Plunkett is not its No. 1 star."

Maryann’s episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation “Identity Crisis” S4, Ep18

Picard trailer

Patrick Stewart offering Whoopi role back on TNG

Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (2019)

Levar Burton as Geordi La Forge

Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher

Jonathan Frakes as William T. Riker

Brent Spiner as Data

Mad (2016)

Center Stage (2000) (Debra Monk, Peter Gallagher, Donna Murphy, Priscilla Lopez)

Fuck Mary Kill: Fuck Beth, Marry Meg, Kill Jo