During a January 2022 interview with Scott Simon on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Saturday, Christine Baranski said that the show's first season was able to cast so many stars known from the Broadway theater (including Audra McDonald, Nathan Lane, Donna Murphy, Kelli O'Hara, Linda Emond, Katie Finneran, Bill Irwin, Michael Cerveris, Debra Monk, Patrick Page, Celia Keenan-Bolger, John Douglas Thompson, and Kristine Nielsen, among others) because Broadway theaters all shut down in March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic: "They were all available, all of these marvelous theater actors, because of COVID. They couldn't work on the stage and was rather like a acting repertory company. And I hope it remains so because you have more Tony Award-winning actors in 'The Gilded Age' than probably any show in history.... Everybody. And if they're not on this season, they'll be on in subsequent seasons because, you know, there's nothing like theater actors. If you want to do a period piece and are not afraid of the various manners and ways of speaking that are required of their characters, you want theater actors." Baranski herself and Cynthia Nixon (who plays her sister Ada) are themselves longtime Broadway veterans and in fact both appeared in the same 1984 original Broadway production of the Tom Stoppard play The Real Thing (also starring Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, and Peter Gallagher). Nixon famously appeared simultaneously in both The Real Thing and in another Broadway play, Hurlyburly, while she was still a high-school student. Denée Benton (Peggy Scott) was nominated for a Tony Award for playing Natasha in the 2017 Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. Michael Luwoye (George Parker) was the first person ever to play both Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr in the same day--as an understudy and alternate in the Broadway production of "Hamilton," in November 2016 he had to fill in as Hamilton for a matinee and Burr for the evening show.
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