Anne   (interview 1994 photo 1994)

   Anne has, for the most part, been able to make her living in the theater, both on Broadway and regionally. Some of her credits are: "The Most Happy Fella", in which she understudied the role of Rosabella; "Beauty and the Beast", both on Broadway and on tour; and the Lincoln Center version of "Carousel". One of the roles in regional theater she has really enjoyed was the role of the cowgirl, Brünnhilde, in, "Das Barbecü", performed at the Goodspeed Opera House and later at the Asolo Theatre in Sarasota. This country music version of Wagner's, "Ring Cycle" was " ... one of the funniest and yet huge-hearted shows I've ever done. It allowed me to fall in love, sing great country and western songs, and save the world every night!" Anne has also written and performed her one-woman show, "Enough About Me", her first club act.

   When not working in NY, she's doing regional theater. "Not only is it psychologically secure, knowing I have this home base here, but also because it's so affordable up here, I usually don't freak out about, 'Oh my God, I have to get somebody in here to pay maintenance when I'm gone.' I can usually manage to break even... even on regional theater salary, which ain't so hot!"

   Dissatisfied with where she was living in 1989, she began exploring the West 180s and "when I found this place," Anne recalled, " ... with the space and the light and the river, we had to take it. I was really thrilled finding this place. It really deepened my sense of home and sanctuary. There's such peace up here."

   "I run into people on the street up here all the time. I know the people at the wine shop. I know the people at the dry cleaners, they know my name ... My girlfriend helps at the bakery. They know how I take my coffee, and they start making the coffee, with just the right amount of sugar and milk (when they see me coming). It's like a little village. The rare thing about living up here is that, you do go to each other's homes. Friends will come over here for coffee, or I'll go over there for coffee. In most of New York ... you date your friends in restaurants. Here, you actually can have people over to your house, y'know, which is the way I guess they do it in the rest of the country. So I like that."

   "I have a lot of friends up here ... actors, musicians and stage managers and we say ... we can't get anyone to come visit us, but when they do, they move because they love it up here so much." Coming home at night, Anne usually gets the "A" train between 10:30 - 11 P.M. The second car from the front is the Broadway party car, where about a dozen theater people on any given night catch up on the day and talk about what's going on. She has come to know about fifteen theater people through these rides back up to her neighborhood.

   Anne paid $117,000 in 1989 for an apartment that is "... huge and gorgeous. It's big enough that I have shared it with other people ... there's an immense amount of privacy for two people. It's a long, rambling, high-ceilinged, wood-floored space ... and the most spectacular thing about it is that I have four windows that look directly out over The Hudson River. I can see weather, the sky, the sunset every night ... there are places in it that are very cool and shady, there are places that are very sun-drenched."

   When asked about some of her favorite places, Anne replied, "Well, we all know about Fort Tryon Park. It's such a great place to go. But people who just kind of come up here to visit probably don't know about The Little Red Lighthouse. The walk down to the Little Red Lighthouse is great, and there's the tennis courts there, too. If you bike or skate, you should take the footpath across the George Washington Bridge. You can skate for miles and miles and miles up the other side of the river. I roller-bladed all the way up to across from Yonkers. It's beautiful. Right across the river from my house, I've seen woodchucks. It's also fun to watch the Circle Line go by on a really, really cold, sleeting, rainy, horrible day and wonder, 'What the hell are they doing out there on that boat? But they're looking up at me, at my house. I live here!"