Witness for the Prosecution, and landed the lead role I would later learn Marlene Dietrich played in the 1957 Billy Wilder film.
During my first go-round at college when I was 18, I played roles in classics like Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Bourgeois Gentleman, and Lysistrata.As a middle-schooler, I fantasized that when I was a bit older, I would star as Angel in a Broadway musical version of Little Darlings — not because I wanted to be Kristy McNichol, but because my preteen brain thought that Angel and Tatum O’Neal’s character Ferris should have been together, and I had a silent crush on O’Neal before I knew I was gay.