Someday might be sooner than she’s letting on, but right now she’s focused on her world concert tour. She’s just finished up in New Zealand and is going to perform one night in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth. Although concerts don’t require as much research (or tap dancing) as some theatrical roles, they have their own challenges.
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“There’s no script, it’s me, Audra McDonald up there, communicating and being with my audience,” she says. “But as I then perform each song, each song is a mini musical to me, I need to make sure there’s a why, make sure I understand what’s happening, what I’m trying to accomplish, what the character is trying to accomplish within the song.”
After her whistlestop tour of Australia, she’s heading back to the US, and back into the corsets of The Gilded Age, which starts filming its third season two weeks after she lands. She’s also starred in The Good Wife spinoff The Good Fight, among other non-singing television roles. When she set her sights on Broadway, she never thought she’d end up doing drama on TV, but she’s enjoyed the process of learning a different kind of acting.
“I’ve enjoyed the projects I’ve been able to be a part of, but I feel like I lucked into being in all of them. I’m the luckiest woman in the world. I’ve been on two television shows with Christine Baranski – who’s luckier than I am?”
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