Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Marla Mindelle, the star of Off Broadway’s Golden Age fantasia “The Big Gay Jamboree,” gets anxiety during every performance.

Sure, the delightfully ridiculous show — in which she plays a struggling actress who blacks out after drinking and wakes up to find she’s trapped in a classic musical, has been running since September.

But muscle memory doesn’t negate her crippling stage fright. “I have such dread — not because the show is bad — but I’m concerned about doing a good job,” she says.

None of this panic is evident in Mindelle, whose over-the-top, irreverent sensibilities and proclivity for trolling the audience have turned the 39-year-old into the reigning queen of Off Broadway.

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