We have a Tony winner in our midst this week! The wildly talented star of stage and screen, Tonya Pinkins invites Damian and Anne over for tea and showbiz chit-chat. You Might Know Her From Caroline or Change, Jelly’s Last Jam, Above the Rim, Beat Street, All My Children, Random Acts of Flyness, Fear of the Walking Dead, and Gotham. Tonya talks about being the most well-adjusted character on a soap opera, working alongside Eartha Kitt, the challenges and rewards of playing Caroline, and her controversial departure from Mother Courage. ‘Tis our final weekly episode before the summer, get into it.

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Ad for 90210 reboot

Emily Valentine had a gay aesthetic (Christine Elise)

The Masked Singer RENEWED

Our suggestions for

Masked singer contestants: John Travolta, Kelly Preston, Rita WIlson, Jon Lovitz, Lisa Rinna, Becky Ann Baker, Vicki Lewis, Daphne Rubin Vega,

Masked Singer costumes: banana, the ‘Noid, earthworm

Glowworm toy

Above the Rim: Tupac, Leon, Duane Martin, Marlon Wayans,

Beat Street

Rae Dawn Chong was famous for Quest for Fire

All My Children

Tonya’s soap history (All My Children & As the World Tunrs)

As the World Turns: (other actors who got their start on AtWT include Julianne Moore, Meg Ryan, Marisa Tomei, Stephen Weber)

Fear of the Walking Dead

Susan Lucci

Jeanine Tesori

Caroline or Change (Tesori/Kushner) on Broadway

Tonya performs “Lot’s Wife” at the Tonys

Tonya worked with Voice and Speech therapist Annemette Verspeak

Playwright/director, George C Wolfe

Sweetwater’s (nightclub on 68th & Amsterdam Ave in NYC)

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Cynthia Martells

Patty Holley in Jelly’s Last Jam

Gregory Hines

Tonya wins Tony for Jelly’s Last Jam

Jelly’s Last Jam (doc on YouTube)

Jelly’s Last Jam at The Tonys

Publicist: Leonard Fink

2015 Mother Courage controversy with Classic Stage Company

Tonya getting aged to death on Gotham (by Fish Mooney’s henchman)

Glenda Jackson in King Lear

Clip of Eartha Kitt & Tonya in The Wild Party

Controversy at The Wild Party (Patinkin spits at Collette, Collette shoves Patinkin)

Tonya Pinkins diss track

Tonya singing “Somewhere That’s Green” at the piano with Alan Menken (arrangement by Brian Nash)

Tonya’s Dentist: Jeffrey Wright  Tonya’s Seymour: Erik Lieberman

Trip to Paris with Ellen Greene, Howard Ashman, puppeteer    

Merrily We Roll Along

Patrik-Ian Polk: Noah’s Ark + Jumping the Broom