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Jane Sing
comedic interplay between songs.
“Kate and I have great fun on stage,”
Arden, and Tim is more like Lyle Waggoner.
We just tell him to be handsome.”
For non-boomers, Lynch is referring to the
The Mothers-in Law. Ballard
was the wackier of the pair. Waggoner was
the hunky former model in The Carol Burnett
Show’s weekly ensemble.
Lynch developed a cabaret show in
2013, during an eight-week run on Broadway
as Miss Hannigan, the evil orphanage
matron — yes, another mean person — in
a hit revival of Annie. Most Broadway performers,
she was told, had a cabaret show.
Flannery and Davis to pitch them on the idea.
Lynch and Davis, of course, already
worked together on Glee. Lynch and Flannery
had performed together for decades,
-
penwolf Theatre Company and The Second
City.
The two also appeared in The Real Live
Brady Bunch, -
erent sendup of the vintage sitcom. (Lynch
played Carol Brady while Flannery played
Alice, the family maid.)
Flannery and Davis, who introduced Lynch
to the Tony Guerrero Quintet, were on board.
See Jane Sing debuted at Club 54 in Manhattan
before hitting the road, playing clubs,
theaters and such prestigious venues as the
Eisenhower Theater at the John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts.
Lynch, now 56, who has an MFA in theater
from Cornell University, was primarily a
Glee came calling. Most
notably, Christopher Guest began includ-
mockumentaries, including Best in Show, A
Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration.
(Most recently, she appeared in Mascots,
“Those Christopher Guest movies are sheer
genius,” Lynch says. “I always thought if I
could be in one of them, my life would be
complete.”
She snared memorable supporting roles
as The 40-Year-Old Virgin — and TV shows
before she was cast as Sylvester in 2009.
Glee ran for six years on Fox, and is credited
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