Courtney Markowitz discusses her experience playing the Stepmother role in Theatre Under the Stars' production of Cinderella and how it feels to play a villain for the first time.
The very first day of rehearsal, Courtney Markowitz says she told her fellow cast members:"I just want everyone to know I'm in crisis over how mean I have to be." That's because the veteran actress has been brought in to play the Stepmother role in Theatre Under the Stars' production of Cinderella . Saying she's a very tall actress who might well be called upon to play mean roles, Markowitz says, however,"This is my very first time playing the villain.
"It's fun to approach her from the point of view what makes her the way that she is. Like any human I think all her meanness comes out of insecurity about herself and about her own daughters. Helps a little bit but still it not easy to be so mean especially to Brianna who is just the sweetest human ever." But still, the actress who now lives in Katy with her family is afraid that all the children in her neighborhood who come to see the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, will never look at her the same way. She has fewer worries about her own young daughters, one of whom — the 7-year-old — has been running lines with he
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