{"id":814,"date":"2011-10-26T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/10\/the-roots-of-christine-ebersole.html"},"modified":"2011-10-26T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T21:05:00","slug":"the-roots-of-christine-ebersole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/10\/the-roots-of-christine-ebersole.html","title":{"rendered":"The Roots of Christine Ebersole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YOU&#8217;VE got to be in awe of an actress who can portray both Little Edie and Big Edie from <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grey_Gardens_(musical)\">Grey Gardens<\/a>. <\/i>Winning a Tony for the feat is not likely easy, either.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3M3IOU1KO48\/TqiEAc6tBPI\/AAAAAAAABL8\/mf48fWqd_P4\/s1600\/Grey_Gardens_%2528musical_starring_M_L_Wilson%2529_poster.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3M3IOU1KO48\/TqiEAc6tBPI\/AAAAAAAABL8\/mf48fWqd_P4\/s1600\/Grey_Gardens_%2528musical_starring_M_L_Wilson%2529_poster.jpg\"><\/a>I spoke recently to Christine Ebersole, the actress and singer who&#8217;s done everything from Tootsie to Saturday Night Live to Noel Coward. That piece, part of my Influences series for the LA Times Culture Monster page, is <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2011\/10\/influences-actresssinger-christine-ebersole.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I should not spoil it, but despite the very fine names on her list (Carol Lombard, Joni Mitchell), I was most impressed with the words of the late New York theater director with whom she closed out our conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YOU&#8217;VE got to be in awe of an actress who can portray both Little Edie and Big Edie from Grey Gardens. Winning a Tony for the feat is not likely easy, either. I spoke recently to Christine Ebersole, the actress and singer who&#8217;s done everything from Tootsie to Saturday Night Live to Noel Coward. That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,48,97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-comedy","7":"category-new-york","8":"category-theater","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}