'This is the most terrifying thing I've ever done in my life': Zoë interviewed about Zorba!

4 May 2015 22:34

The day after tomorrow, Zoë will take to the stage as mysterious innkeeper Hortense in New York City Center's highly anticipated revival of Zorba!, her first musical since the mid-1970s.

'This is the most terrifying thing I've ever done in my life,' Zoë says of the production in a fascinating new interview from The Clyde Fitch Report, an art and politics publication. Scary, but undoubtedly a great deal of fun too: 'I'm excited by the idea of doing it,' she adds.

Zorba! will begin its seven-performance run – part of the Encores! season – exactly two months after Zoë's opening night as poet Stevie Smith, in Stevie, on the other side of the Atlantic. As she makes clear to the interviewer, David Finkle (clearly a long-standing admirer, who has 'seen Wanamaker in almost every production she's done'), her schedule has been extremely busy recently, to say the least.

Zoë explains: 'We closed [in Stevie] on Saturday, I packed on Sunday, flew [to New York] on Monday and had dinner with [the director of Zorba!] Walter Bobbie on Tuesday'!

Zorba! runs from 6-10 May. Tickets are available now.

Thanks to Janet for the link to the interview.

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