Marisa Tomei is playing the trying-to-be-merry widow Serafina in Tennessee WilliamssThe Rose Tattoo.
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These are not two separate things.
The Rose Tattoois among the less-performed Tennessee Williams plays.
Its probably on the B-list or something, Tomei says.
I like plays that are considered unresolvable in some way, Tomei says.
She wears oversize nerd-chic glasses and teases her hair with a finger as she speaks.
(She gets a Mezcal Mule.)
Will there be a live goat on Broadway?
Thats up for debate right now, Tomei says.
I dont know how you do it without one, but how do you do itwithone?
So Im a little crushed.
(If youd like to write one for her, c’mon get in touch.)
Thats been a great disappointment, she says.
Having the courage to even vocalize that after feeling muzzled for generations, thats something beautiful.
Raising her arms, she briefly demonstrates.
In a sense, thats what Serafina goes through.
Shes got that bite.
The Rose Tattoopremieres September 19 at the American Airlines Theater.
