Jayne Houdyshell

Are you a Beth or a Marmee? Fresh off playing Hannah in Greta Gerwig's Little Women, Anne and Damian dig into the March women with theatre stalwart, Jayne Houdyshell. You Might Know Her From: Little Women, Maid in Manhattan, The Bounty Hunter, Garden State, and the Broadway productions of The Humans, Well, King Lear, and A Doll's House Part 2. Jayne's film career is taking off, but we cover her thirty years in regional theatre before winning a Tony Award at 62! Plus, the joys of Louisa May Alcott, recreating her role in the movie version of The Humans (hi, Amy Schumer and Beanie Feldstein!), the sexual energy of John Stamos and Gina Gershon in Bye Bye Birdie, and why strangers would chase her around Manhattan saying, "Fuck you, Nora." Shit, we loved this Kansan so much. Git into it. Follow us on social media: @damianbellino || @rodemanne  Discussed this week: Jayne's IMDB || Jayne's IBDB Anne was trying to think of the nasty nickname for motorcycles but couldn't get there. Isn't "ambulance ____" but ER docs apparently call them "donor cycles"  Child's Play 3 with  Christine Elise aka Emily Valentine in 90210, BH90210christ Anne was thinking of Elise Neal in Scream 2 Damian and Anne in a sidecar Mr. Lee's rugelach = Lee Lee's Rugelach By A Brother Jayne's journey from regional->Broadway Jayne in Music Man with Sutton Foster & Hugh Jackman Jake Gyllenhaal mildly mispronouncing Jayne's last name on Tony night Jayne is Hannah in Greta Gerwig's Little Women (2019) Other Little Women adaptations: Jayne loves the Katherine Hepburn version (1933); June Allyson (1949); Winona Ryder (1994); PBS's version with Maya Hawke (2018) NYC's Zipper Factory (2001-2009) Lisa Kron's Well directed by Leigh Silverman The Humans (Stephen Karam) on Broadway; The Humans is a movie with Beanie Feldstein, Amy Schumer, and Jayne! actor/director/friend Joe Mantello  Jayne replaced Linda Lavin in the 2011 Follies Broadway revival (suggested by Bernadette Peters) and got to sing "Broadway Baby" Maid in Manhattan from fancy trailer to honeywagon Gloucester opposite Glenda Jackson's King Lear Jayne loved her in Marat/Sade Bye Bye Birdie revival on Broadway in 2009  Katrina Lenk in Company revival (Indecent, The Band's Visi) Katrina performing "Omar Sharif' from The Band's Visit  Famous Kansans: Lois Smith, Annette Bening, Jack Willis, Shirley Knight,  On growing up in Kansas: "My whole concept of god was the horizon."  Craft services better on Little Women than on Garden State Lucky Stiff musical Oh well shit. Shit Nora shit or Fuck you, Nora.