Levy plays Eva Merz Jakobovicz in British playwright Tom Stoppard’s drama about a Jewish family living amid the resurgence of antisemitism in Vienna in the decades leading up to the Holocaust
Caissie Levy has been a musical theatre star on Broadway for over a decade now – passing through iconic roles such as Fantine and Elphaba, reinventing Elsa for the stage inCaroline, or ChangeThis fall, however, the actor raised in Hamilton has been acting in her first “straight play” on the Great White Way:by the great British playwright Tom Stoppard.
What was it like to meet him? I imagine I would be kind of nervous. Actually, come to think of it, I did meet him once, was extremely nervous and said something dumb. Stoppard discovered his Jewish roots – or started to understand the full extent of them – later in his life, inspiring this play. For you, being Jewish was a big part of your life growing up. Lately it seems you are playing more characters who are Jewish themselves: Eva, Rose inThat’s been a recent development in my career. I’ve always been a very proud Jew, but it never really found its way into my work.
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