In February, 1977, when Diane Lane was 12 years old, she appeared in THE CHERRY ORCHARD, directed by Andrei Serban, on LCT’s largest stage, the Vivian Beaumont.
"It was a dress rehearsal, but there were 30 or 40 people there. I burst into tears, but the audience laughed. Somehow that laugh infected me. It’s been one humiliation after another ever since."
Sitzprobe is the German term, used in opera and musical theater, to describe the first time the entire cast and orchestra sit down together to do the show’s music.
"My introduction to the problem that THE KING AND I poses came in college when I studied the relationship between traditional and modern cultures, particularly in regard to women. That theme is what drew me most to this piece."
