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| Taylor Alfano is Smartly Ditzy as Ginger Brooks |
It’s hard playing opposites, especially
when they are two sides of the same coin.
This is the challenge facing Taylor Alfano, who plays Ginger Brooks in The 1940s Radio Hour.
Taylor describes her character Ginger as “a waitress who always wanted
to be more. She is a very clever girl, even though she acts dumber than she is
when they are on the air. It is not easy to play smart and ditzy at
the same time. You have to have a lot more focus than you would expect, and
when you add the dancing, singing and the rest of the show in, it does get a
little overwhelming.”
Taylor loves being Ginger because of the relationships she shares
with other characters: “Ginger and Clifton have a love/hate relationship that
makes them more like family than they would like to admit. She plays tricks on
him constantly and loves being late, just to make him insane. Ginger absolutely
despises Johnny because of the way he treats women, and no matter how many
times he tries, he will never win over Ginger. She does not fall for his charms
or any of the games he plays with the other girls in the show.” While Ginger loves the men’s attention, she also has “a
huge heart. She took Connie under her wing when she first started in the show,
and ever since then, they have been like sisters.”
Taylor wanted to audition for 1940's mainly to work with director Rachael Rose
again: “Rachael has become one of
my best friends between 1940s and
Little Shop of Horrors, and I couldn't be happier to be working with her again.
She is so supportive and really puts her heart and soul into every aspect of
the show she is directing.” Taylor
also expressed a love for Forties music, which has “stunning jazz harmonies
that are pretty difficult, but when done right, they sound great. I have always
wanted to sing ‘Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy’ so that definitely drove me to
audition. The Forties style is one of my favorites, and the actresses from
those days were so wonderful.”
Taylor made her Barn debut this year as
Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors. Taylor graduated from Central Michigan
University with a Bachelor’s degree of fine Arts in 2011. While there, she portrayed Cecile in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the wicked
stepmother in Into The Woods, and
Sally in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown!
The
1940s Radio Hour opens November 30th and runs through
December 22nd. Reserved seats for
this musical comedy sponsored by Weinstein Jewelers are available now at
www.farmingtonplayers.org or at the box office (248) 553-2955.
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