Melissa Chalsma, a newcomer to the Broadway stage, landed the role of
Bridget in the Roundabout Theater Company's production of Harold Pinter's
Moonlight. Bridget is a ghost, the dead teenage daughter of the
dying Andy (Jason Robards) and his wife, Bel (Blythe Danner). Bridget haunts
the play, framing its progression with monologues that both open and close
the work. According to a review in the Daily News, Chalsma
gave "an otherworldly figure quiet eloquence."
Andy Taylor appears with Carol Burnett and Philip Bosco in Ken Ludwig's
Moon Over Buffalo, which is running through February at the
Martin Beck Theatre. Taylor plays the role of Howard, a mild-mannered
weatherman-one of several characters that help propel the action of this
comical work about a second-rate 1950s touring acting troupe. Taylor has
recently guest starred on the television series Law and Order, and he
performed opposite Sarah Jessica Parker in the NBC remake of Neil Simon's
The Sunshine Boys, which also starred Woody Allen and Peter
Falk. Taylor proudly pointed out in his Stagebill biography that
he is an Oberlin Conservatory of Music graduate and that he made his
Carnegie Hall debut as a cellist in 1992.
Bill Irwin is no stranger to Broadway or to his current show Fool
Moon, for that matter. Irwin returned with his costar David Shiner for
a second run of the production at the Ambassador Theatre. Fool Moon
is a "harum-scarum two-man revue, as well as a brisk review of the art
of mime, the circus, vaudeville and silent-film comedy," wrote New York
Times theater critic Vincent Canby. Irwin has as much talent for drama as he
does for comedy-he has appeared with Steve Martin, Robin Williams, and
F. Murray Abraham in Waiting for Godot and in George
Wolfe's Central Park production of Shakespeare's The
Tempest.