![]() And having enough breath after those runs to come in and not be winded-since I’m playing a character who shouldn’t be winded.”Īll of which are bearable concerns. But the hardest part is remembering where and who I’m supposed to be when I step on stage. “You can’t get from up-center stage to stage right unless you go all the way around stage left, through the lobby and around the back of the theater. I just walk behind the screen, come out-and I’m the other guy.” ![]() So now, in the same show, I get to do both. ![]() But for the last five years, I’ve enjoyed playing less predictable characters (including a drug addict on “Falcon Crest”). For the first 10 years of my career, I basically played Frederic types: sincere, clean-cut and well-meaning. “I can’t remember the last time I was asked to play twin brothers. I loved the idea of the two characters,” said the actor. Now Parker Stevenson is doing it on the stage, playing snotty Hugo and gentle Frederic in Jean Anouilh’s “Ring Round the Moon” (at the Colony through Sept. Patty Duke did it on television with her “Patty Duke Show” in the ‘60s. But what if you’re playing both leading roles: going off stage as one character and coming back in the next second as the other-identical twins who don’t walk, talk or act alike? “I wanted to just be true and dedicate myself to the Nancy that we were creating,” she said, “with all the knowledge that I already had to back up the historical relevance of her traits.Most actors have a hard enough time remembering their lines, hitting their marks and reaching the back of the house. McMann, the daughter of young adult author Lisa McMann, grew up reading the Nancy Drew series of books, but she didn’t reread them in preparation for the role. Scott Wolf, who plays the sleuth’s father, Carson, joked, “I was just hearing about this sex thing for the first time. ![]() “The little ones know that this show isn’t for them, and they’re going to have to wait until they’re older.” “We’re making the show for The CW and that audience,” executive producer Stephanie Savage said. While some of the characters and mystery theme resemble the original, McMann’s Nancy Drew has sex. “She came so prepared,” director Larry Teng said. But she was thrilled to be asked to appear in the remake. Martin quit the original after one season when her role was reduced with the merger of the two shows. ![]()
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