Interview with Andrea Bailey
Andrea Bailey, a Capilano University Graduate and Monday at Maxine’s regular is a talent to watch and is going to blow it out of the water in Forbidden Broadway. This summer she did double duty in Annie and Rent and just finished a run of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat with Footlight Theatre.
What was your first musical theatre experience?
When I was in grade 2 our local high school did a production of Oliver and I dragged my parents to see it multiple times.
What is your Dream Role?
There are too many, but the one I’ve had for the longest time would have to be Roxy Heart in Chicago
What is the scariest thing you’ll have to do in Forbidden Broadway?
An accurate Liza Minnelli impression :Z
What is the best experience you’ve had in the theatre?
There’s too many! One that sticks out in my mind is Patrick Street Production’s The Full Monty. I’ve never laughed and cried in the same show. Another one was hearing my Mom tell me how proud she was after seeing Rent.
Do you have any musical theatre role models?
Not specifically. I admire the people who never let negative criticism bother them, and the people who never take no for an answer!
If you could go back in time and be a part of any Broadway show which show would it be, who would you play, and why?
Ugh. Maybe Sweeney Todd as Mrs Lovett, a show big enough to launch my career to stardom but with a challenging character who still provides some comedic relief.
List the four theatrical people you would have around your dinner table in an ideal world.
Liza Minnelli – so she could teach me to be like her! Shakespeare – to find out if he really did write all his plays, Madeline Kahn – to bask in the glow of her comedic genius, and Stephen Sondheim – because I missed seeing him while he was in Vancouver.
If you couldn’t perform, what would you do?
Teach. And I don’t mean that in a negative way, considering I’m in this show with three of them…
What do you think is missing from the Vancouver theatre scene?
Money!