I had this amazing teacher who trained me on weekends.
“I was the first one to ever take it out of the church and into the world. While her family were musical – they owned the church on the corner of their small town, where her father played every instrument, her mother was a choir director, her sister played the drums, and her brother played piano – they never pursued it professionally. We raised pigs and then they would be sent off, it was like Charlotte’s Web.” “I was the granddaughter of a hog farmer.
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Maybe they don’t really know that they can have a job as a professional actress full-time.”įor Wallace, it’s serendipitous that she ended up in Oklahoma!, a show she said is close to her heart. “I thought it was really important to have a presence on social media because there’s other people out there that are like me and maybe come from a small town. “Everyone gets to see us on stage and they don’t see how the sausage is made,” she said. It is a rare insight into the life of theatre stars who might feel more removed from younger, online audiences.
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That accessibility is reflected in Wallace’s Instagram which is full of funny and affirmative videos of her rehearsing, trying on outfits or messing around in the gym. Marisha Wallace with James Davis and Arthur Darvill in rehearsals for Oklahoma! Photograph: Anne Tetzlaff So I want to grant accessibility to everyone.” “As a little black kid, I was never like, ‘I’m gonna go to theatre’, it didn’t feel like it belonged to me. “So why does our theatre and our art not reflect that? I think that’s what’s key to keeping theatre alive. “When we walk outside we don’t see all the same race, gender or body type,” Wallace said. It even inspired show runners from HBO’s Euphoria to include Oklahoma! in their plot. The actor and singer, who has starred in stage hits including Aladdin, Dreamgirls and Hairspray, as well as onscreen in Netflix’s Feel Good, said the new “sexy” Oklahoma! was a reimagination of the show for the 21st century. It was like, ‘Wow, I don’t have to be the random black girl who sings and then leaves and no one ever knows what ever happened to her’.” Wallace, 36, first played Ado Annie in an all-black version of Oklahoma! in the US, the first time she was cast in a lead role. “I know it’s going to inspire a lot of women out there who may feel like their body type or how they look isn’t accepted or worthy of love.” “Ado Annie is the town’s object of love and affection so to have a plus-sized black woman playing her is incredible, I’d never seen it on stage before. “It’s a role I never thought I could play because it’s usually played by very thin white women,” Wallace said.