As an understudy, Benko covered five female roles in the first national tour of Spring Awakening and then eight roles (including all four daughters) in the recent Broadway production of Fiddler On The Roof.
Although the scenes appeared as mere shadows and whispers, I couldn’t make them disappear. With age came a clearer sense of past and present. Being on stage playing Anne protected me from those fears.
A new Yiddish production accentuates the joys of the original.
It is high time for the creation of “Gloria: A Life.” which is both a history lesson and, a visceral connection to the anger, the excitement and the hope of the feminist movement.
