Listen "Girdles and Garters"
Episode Synopsis
Richmond native Caroline Aaron is best known for her role as Shirley Maisel in Amazon’s Primetime Emmy Award-winning series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (which enters its 4th and final season on April 15). She’s also the featured speaker at the Adolf-Adams JCC Forum on March 16. This 2nd episode of our 2-part discussion includes:
– A look at her mother, Richmond icon & activist Nina Abady
– Getting cast in Maisel thanks to her daughter’s love of Gilmore Girls
– Wearing a girdle and garters as Shirley Maisel
– The challenges of Maisel’s long dialogue sequences
– Her one-woman play that became a movie
– Her reaction to the changes on Monument Avenue
– Shooting a sitcom in Israel with Henry Winkler
– Playing a character in the video game Fallout
– Seeing Lea Michele in Funny Girl
LINKS:
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Prime Video)
Tickets for Caroline’s evening in Richmond
Call Waiting (her one-woman movie)
– A look at her mother, Richmond icon & activist Nina Abady
– Getting cast in Maisel thanks to her daughter’s love of Gilmore Girls
– Wearing a girdle and garters as Shirley Maisel
– The challenges of Maisel’s long dialogue sequences
– Her one-woman play that became a movie
– Her reaction to the changes on Monument Avenue
– Shooting a sitcom in Israel with Henry Winkler
– Playing a character in the video game Fallout
– Seeing Lea Michele in Funny Girl
LINKS:
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Prime Video)
Tickets for Caroline’s evening in Richmond
Call Waiting (her one-woman movie)
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