Meanwhile, up the road, the actor Joanna Lumley wants a different bauble.
An important station on Reagan's road from actor to politician — coming between the national barnstorming he did as a spokesman for General Electric and his sensational campaign speech for Barry Goldwater, in 1964 — was the eleven-minute recording from which this quotation comes.
The road of actors-turned-recording-artists is not, it's fair to say, a very dignified one.
"It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film," says Treadaway, who is acutely aware of the rocky road facing actors who want to be musicians.
The company's latest batch of recruits recently covered more than 13,300 miles and hit some 50 cities with a three-show repertory, a January-to-May tour that ended at 8 37 p.m. on Monday, when the troupe's navy blue bus pulled into Manhattan carrying 13 of the happiest, most road-tested actors you've ever seen.
In an interview Maria Somma, a spokeswoman for Actors Equityy, said: "It's a very long road for an actor to get from seeing the casting notice to getting that audition.
Written and directed by McPherson and starring Road to Perdition actor Ciarán Hinds, The Night Alive is set in the groundfloor bedsit of a Dublin house and tells the story of a random encounter between a working-class Dubliner and a prostitute he rescues from an abusive relationship.
"Even though you have this artificial conceit, rhyming couplets, I wanted to take that for granted and ignore it, but instead focus on the possible reality of the situation — what kind of person is Valere, what kind of person is Elomire, life on the road for the actors vs. life in the court.
Interviews with voters (including producers, artists, road presenters and actors) — and a notebook's worth of meals in the theater district — ground our annual forecast of the 2011 Tony Awards, for which 39 shows that opened on Broadway this season were eligible.
