Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 53 minutes ago
Kelli O'Hara has built a name for herself as one of Broadway’s leading modern sopranos. Above, watch the Tony winner flip through a Playbill binder containing the programs from her career, from Jekyll & Hyde, to Light in the Piazza, to Fallen Angels.
To watch O'Hara reveal how she lost out on The Last Five Years because she couldn't belt, lactating while onstage in Bridges of Madison County, the audition that tested her friendship with Victoria Clark and Celia Kenan-Bolger, and wanting more love stories for middle-aged women, check out her full episode of My Life in the Theatre in the video above!
Kelli O'Hara has built a name for herself as one of Broadway’s leading modern sopranos. Above, watch the Tony winner flip through a Playbill binder containing the programs from her career, from Jekyll & Hyde, to Light in the Piazza, to Fallen Angels.
To watch O'Hara reveal how she lost out on The Last Five Years because she couldn't belt, lactating while onstage in Bridges of Madison County, the audition that tested her friendship with Victoria Clark and Celia Kenan-Bolger, and wanting more love stories for middle-aged women, check out her full episode of My Life in the Theatre in the video above!









![McKenzie Kurtz, Isabelle McCalla, More Discuss the Musical Theatre Archetypes of Schmigadoon!
When asked to describe her character, Emma Tate, in Schmigadoon!, Isabelle McCalla is very specific: She is a little bit Marian [from The Music Man], a little bit Anna from The King and I, and a whole lot of Julie Andrews if she kicked her face.
Thats also Schmigadoon! in a nutshell: your favorite Golden Age musical, but with a twist. See the cast of the show, including Sara Chase, Alex Brightman, and more discuss how Schmigadoon! pays tribute to the Broadway musical. McKenzie Kurtz, Isabelle McCalla, More Discuss the Musical Theatre Archetypes of Schmigadoon!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pXb4eSN7o_A/mqdefault.jpg)
