But to come to New York to do the 48th production of Macbeth on Broadway, did you have to know that you guys would approach it in a way different from the others? Ruth, this is your Broadway debut, but you’ve done plenty of theater before in Dublin and London, including multiple productions of Shakespeare. ROCKWELL: You want to chew on the big parts - my mom or somebody told me you have to play the great parts if you want to be a good actor or, if you can get to there, a great actor - and I outgrew Hamlet, so this was one of the ones that was left. And now, in David Mamet’s American Buffalo, you are walking in shoes first occupied 45 years ago by Robert Duvall, and since by the likes of Al Pacino and Richard Jenkins. I was lucky enough to catch you seven years ago in a Sam Shepard revival, Fool for Love.
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Sam, you made your Broadway debut 12 years ago in A Behanding in Spokane, a then-new Martin McDonagh show. I was concerned that there might be a slightly different response to this one this time because we’re so polarized right now - everything is so black and white, and this play is all about the grey area - so it’s really moving to me that the audience has seemed to allow for that. I don’t know if I ever feel finished with any play, and every time I’ve gone back to do something - I’ve done many plays more than once, one three times - I’ve had a fear that was there won’t be there, but it actually always seems to distill it into something stronger. PARKER I have a picture of myself standing on the street right after the last show, and from that day, I think, I wanted to go back. Here you are, 25 years later, reuniting in the same parts, along with the original’s director Mark Brokaw and company member Johanna Day. But it was Off Broadway, in 1997, that you and David Morse first starred in a production of Paula Vogel’s semi-autobiographical play. Mary-Louise, you’ve been acting on Broadway since 1990, most recently, prior to this show, in The Sound Inside, for which you won a well-deserved second Tony. But about four years ago, I don’t know, I went “ The Music Man! Damn, I’m almost 50, I might have missed the boat!” All of a sudden, I felt an urgency, so I rang my agent, who, weirdly, had had a call that day inquiring about me doing The Music Man. After I began acting for a living, for many years the idea of doing The Music Man at some point was bandied around, but I didn’t know when.
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JACKMAN The first show I ever did was The Music Man in high school.