Elisabeth Moss Makes Her Broadway Debut With Speed-the-Plow

Maddicts wondering where to get their weekly fix now that Season 2 has come and gone should consider making a pilgrimage to the Great White Way for a highly entertaining revival of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow starring series regular Elisabeth Moss. (Jeremy Piven of Entourage and Broadway mainstay Raul Esparza round out the cast.) While it's not about the world of advertising, the play shares a number of interesting parallels with the AMC series focusing as it does on a behind-the-scenes industry -- here, Hollywood script development -- and spotlighting, in the process, an ambitious young woman in the secretarial pool.
Moss, who plays that young woman in both productions, has won new accolades from the theater's critical establishment ("elegant" said the New York Post; "wonderfully amusing" wrote the Daily News) with none other than the New York Times citing her performance for its "naked clarity." This for a role originated by Madonna. As to her predecessor, Moss had this to say...
"It was 20 years ago and I was 6 years old...I just think it's funny. I never thought in my career I would be mentioned in the same sentence as Madonna."
If you're wondering how much her role on Mad Men influenced her being cast, consider this.
"They asked me to come and audition for it and I had a couple days off
from Mad Men and they flew me out to audition," Moss said "It took
about an hour and they offered it to me a couple days later." Not bad, eh?












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