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Ana Gasteyer
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Ana Gasteyer, still most widely known for her six seasons on Saturday Night Live but building a reputation for musical theater after her replacement Elphaba in Wicked and her Mrs. Peachum in Roundabout's Threepenny Opera, is this production's Fosca. She and Griffin have come up with an approach to the character – the plain and sickly woman who wins the affections of a handsome military officer in 19th century Italy – that makes the piece's premise more plausible and engaging than is often the case. Gasteyer's Fosca is more nuanced and less melodramatically tragic than others. She's a woman with absolutely nothing – neither health nor money, nor love. When she believes she has found a like-minded soul in the officer Giorgio, she has no patience for the rigid social conventions of the time that might impede her pursuit of the man. We see her carefully calculating the words and stratagems that will take advantage of Giorgio's honor and sense of decorum in hopes of gaining at least his attentions, if not his affections. Her ultimate recognition of the selfishness she's displayed becomes less of a leap and more believable than it is when the character's actions earlier in the piece are played in a more extreme manner.
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Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Ana Gasteyer is a graduate of Northwestern University where she studied voice and acting. After graduating, she moved to Los Angeles, joining The Groundlings comedy troupe.
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Former Saturday Night Live star Ana Gasteyer, left, gets ready to shoot a scene Wednesday on the set in the Friendly City as Moose Jaw native Tamara Harrod makes sure her hair is in place for the shot. Harrod is the key hair artist for this film that has been shooting in the city for a couple weeks. It is titled Finn on the Fly. For more, please see page A3. Shelby Parker photograph
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Ana Gasteyer's decision not to return to Saturday Night Live this season probably seemed like a good thing for Martha Stewart. The absence of Gasteyer — whose dead-on send-up of Stewart was the stuff of SNL legend — meant that Lorne Michaels and Co. would likely miss out on the golden opportunity to lampoon the embattled domestic diva's current ImClone stock woes. Or would they?
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Bette Midler, Cloris Leachman, Carrie Fisher, Lynn Whitfield, Joanna Gleason, Ana Gasteyer and Debi Mazar have joined “The Women,” the Diane English-directed remake of the 1939 comedy. Pic is currently shooting in Boston.
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Gasteyer, 35, was on SNL for six years and is best known for her impressions of Martha Stewart and Celine Dion. She has ... appeared in a revival of ''The Rocky Horror Show'' on Broadway and in ''The Vagina Monologues.''
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