Drama Queen Gifts

Crime in the theater district was the worst. Too much drama: 'okay good, now wiggle your fingers and sway back and forth in the wind.'

Jim and Betty Noir could turn a simple trip to the post office into gripping melodrama.

'T.B. or not T.B.?'

Are we still talking about ME?

"This session is not over until I sing so!"

"Have you ever thought of putting them on in the park?"

"You ungrateful little beast! How dare you accuse me of being an overbearing stage mother! Go to your room and stay there!"

"Well Sid, I'll tell you why dogs get all the good parts. Dogs have better agents."

'Medea' Studies

Chekov play and scorecard,

'Am I going to explode?'

Woman with sore throat.

'It's a Drama right? I would be great for the part: I can cry on command!'

'I need you to start thinking outside the imaginary box.'

Oscars acceptance speech.

'Blimey! She's good.'

"Let me through – I'm morbidly curious!"

The Actor Factor

Actress on botox expressing emotion.

Theatre Workshop: Gone to Lunch (Exits Stage Left. . .)

Singer

"Couldn't be busier. My agent is suing my manager, my manager is suing my lawyer, I'm suing my agent and my lawyer is suing me."

Masquerades and Operas, Burlington Gate.

'Let me guess - a toastmaster?'

"Agreed, we're after a younger audience, but I still prefer 'wherefore art thou' to 'wassup, Romeo?'"

Tosca

Tragedy, Comedy, Understudy.

'I don't want you playing with those awful Lear girls any more!'

'Her special Talent is sulking.'

'Let her go, Mary! She was probably just kidding about your leaping ability.'

"And yet methinks, Martha, that 'Ibsen with Rhythm' seems somehow to miss the point of Ibsen."

"I hate how she seems to think that she's so much more depressed than everyone else."

"Cut the opera, Fred, and go to sleep!"

"I always thought I'd be good at getting drunk and crying on camera for Bravo."

"Terrific! A hit! Broadway at its best!"