Tony Award Winner Jane Krakowski, is on Emmy-nominated-again! ’30 Rock’ with Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, and Tracy Morgan. Here’s a few bits from a recent interview:
“At first, I was nervous about being on their level…
When I was a kid growing up in suburban New Jersey, I didn’t dream of getting married and walking down the aisle—I wanted to be an independent woman living in New York City. My parents were both very creative people, so when I was around 8 years old they gave me a key and made me a mail slot [in my bedroom door]. They would slip letters through it so I’d feel like I had my own apartment.
I started taking ballet lessons at age 3, and my first audition was an open call for a Broadway production called the Milliken Breakfast Show. I arrived at 7 a.m. and waited in line with around 200 people for at least five hours. I sang four bars of a song and I was hired! Sarah Jessica Parker was in the same show.
From the moment that Tina Fey hired me, she always said that she wanted to embrace the singer-dancer in me. I think it’s smart of her to utilize people’s special talents—and sometimes
make fun of them.
There is great joy in making people laugh. Sean Hayes, my costar in last year’s City Center production of Damn Yankees, is one of the funniest people I’ve ever met. He makes people laugh. Full-on, stomach-guffawing laughs. That is a gift. “
