Singer-Actress Donna Murphy
Murphy played the lead in Stephen Sondheim's musical Passion. Of the role, which has her playing an ugly, hysterical woman obsessively pursuing a handsome army captain, Murphy says, "I love transformation of any kind... I want to look in the mirror and not see Donna looking back at me." In 1986, Murphy was a woman in drag in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. In 1991, she was introduced as "a girl who will steal your heart and then forget where she put it," playing the amnesiac songstress in Song of Singapore. (Rebroadcast from July 11, 1994.)
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