Deborah lippmann this magic moment11/9/2023 In college, I got a job at Bullocks department store. I can’t believe they chose me.’ See, I’ve always had this weight problem: Up and down, up and down, up and down. I’d walk in every day and think,, ‘I can’t believe I work here. Audrey Hepburn, Betty White, Raquel Welch. to pursue singing, and I worked as a manicurist at Elizabeth Arden on Rodeo drive. between Phoenix and New York, yes? Yeah, I moved to L.A. Or, I could move to New York and see what else was out there.īut you had a stint in L.A. I could stay there and have a great career, doing the society ladies before their balls, then singing at their balls as they’d dance by me. And it was a community theatre! It’s about taking chances, you know? That show catapulted me to leave Phoenix. And, sure enough, Sondheim came to Arizona. I turned down the other role and took Mary. Dropping the other play meant giving up the chance to get my equity card to work with a director who might or might not be Sondheim. So I audition, and I get cast as Mary, the lead role. Nobody was really committing to whether Sondheim and Furth were coming or not coming. Unfortunately, it was going to be the exact same time as the play I was going to be in. They really loved the show and wanted to fix it, then ultimately bring it back to Broadway, which they did. Then I heard through grapevine that Stephen Sondheim and George Furth were going to be in Phoenix to produce Merrily. I’d gotten cast in a straight play that was going to get me my equity card. When I was living in Arizona in the ‘80s, Phoenix was a small town in terms of theatre. You were directed by Stephen Sondheim? Uh huh. And here’s where I played Mary from Merrily We Roll Along directed by Stephen Sondheim. I felt so much like a lady! It I felt the importance of being able to use my hands, either with strength or to be quite feminine. On the first stage rehearsal the director took one look at my (nail-bitten) hands and demanded I go out and get artificial nails. They hurt so bad! I actually became a manicurist because of doing Razzle Dazzle. We performed at big corporate events, like conventions. So, anyway, I was doing a show called Razzle Dazzle. I spilled red sauce all over a woman in a white suit. I tried waiting tables, which was a disaster. I wanted to continue to love it, and focus on jazz and theatre-my passions. I got a degree in music, so I was piddling around doing weddings and bar mitzvahs to make money, then singing in jazz clubs and doing theatre, which paid nothing. How did you get into the business? As you may know, I’m a singer. When she recently popped by the office for one of my regular beauty insider interviews, five minutes seemed like too short a period to spend together. Our mutual love of singing-she performs regularly, has a Christmas album (“Deck the Halls” is available on iTunes), and sings backup for LeAnn Rimes whenever she’s in New York, including a recent appearance on The Today Show-sealed the girl crush. But she’d have none of it because she is so damned nice, professional and grounded. Every fiber of my being was starstruck-I mean, this was the woman who did the nails of both Cher and Sarah Jessica Parker. The first time I worked with Deborah Lippmann was on a photo shoot in 2011.
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