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The Anderson Twins Play the Fabulous Dorseys!

nytheatre.com q&a preview by Pete Anderson
August 29, 2012

What is your job on this show?
Lead Role!.

Where were you born? Where were you raised? Where did you go to school?
Born and raised in Bethesda, Maryland, and moved to New York City to attend Juilliard.

Complete this sentence: My show is the only one opening in NYC this fall that...?
has identical jazz-playing twins, interspersed with footage from a 1947 film, "The Fabulous Dorseys"

In your own words, what do you think this show is about? What will audiences take away with them after seeing it?
The relationship between the American Dream, close sibling relations, and hard-swinging dirty jazz music!

Which “S” word best describes your show: SMOOTH, SEXY, SMART, SURPRISING?
Smooth and Sexy

How important is diversity to you in the theater you see/make?
It is quintessential - which is why "The Anderson Twins Play the Fabulous Dorseys" has acting, a live onstage 6 piece band, vintage film reel, and Identical twins!