BWW has learned that on Thursday, April 27th, the stars of Broadway’s Six Degrees of Separation, Allison Janney and John Benjamin Hickey will stop by the clubhouse on Bravo’s ‘Watch What Happens Live.’
Allison Janney spiralled, cranelike, up the ramp of the Guggenheim Museum. She stopped in front of a Kandinsky—“Black Lines” (1913), a jumble of Technicolor splotches—and gasped. “My gosh, that’s so beautiful,” she said. She was wearing chunky glasses and a dark blazer over a leopard-print blouse. “I felt an energy go through my chest.” It was her day off from “Six Degrees of Separation,” a Broadway revival of the 1990 John Guare play. Janney plays the wife of a Manhattan art dealer whose life is upended by a young con artist claiming to be the son of Sidney Poitier. “One of the things that Paul, the con man, learns about the couple is that they have a double-sided Kandinsky in their apartment,” Janney said. “One side is chaos and one is order. And my character, Ouisa, realizes what a chaotic state she’s in internally.”
Allison was a guest star on last week’s episode of Nobodies, and I’ve added the caps to the gallery.
Admiring Allison Janney Gallery > Television > Nobodies “The Rat, the Cheese and the Trap”
We’ve updated the Admiring Allison Janney event with the last couple of events we were missing in the gallery.
Admiring Allison Janney Gallery > Events > 2016 > 11-05: 2016 Breeders’ Cup World Championships
Admiring Allison Janney Gallery > Events > 2017 > 03-01: Six Degrees Of Separation Cast Meet and Greet
Admiring Allison Janney Gallery > Events > 2017 > 03-26: “Sweat” Broadway Opening Night – Arrivals and Curtain Call
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“I’m going to be a part of it,” Janney promised. “I’ve been like, ‘Josh, I literally have no time’ — I love Josh Malina and the podcast. I want to be a part of it, but I’ve just not had a minute to do it.”
“And please, if you’re putting that in there, tell him how much we’ve been trying to get a moment for us to do it,” Janney continues. So there you go, Malina and fans alike: Janney has plans to appear. It’s just a matter of when.
“The West Wing is one of my favorite things I’ve ever done,” Janney added. “I love everyone in it still and we’re all very much still in each other’s lives whenever we can be.”
While her CBS comedy “Mom” is on hiatus, Allison Janney has found another maternal role to play while waiting for its return.
Sources tell Variety that the Emmy-winning actress is in talks to play Tonya Harding eccentric and tough mother LaVona in the Miramax biopic “I, Tonya,” starring Margot Robbie in the title role.