“It happened right at the semester break, when I couldn't get my money back,” she says. Her Actors’ Equity card came care of a City Center production of Bye Bye Birdie, and when a production of the Beach Boys musical Good Vibrations moved to Broadway, she dropped out of college to take a part as a swing performer. Emilio Madridįour years later, she had moved across country to study musical theater at NYU and was immersed in the cultural scene of New York City, second-acting shows like Bernadette Peters’s Gypsy (“I’m a major rule follower, so that was incredibly nerve wracking!”), attending open calls, and spending weekends at drag shows and student-production fundraisers. NAEEM KHAN TOP ($1,295) AND PANTS ($1,095), SAKSFIFTHAVENUE.COM HARRY WINSTON NECKLACE AND RINGS, HARRYWINSTON.COM. Krysta knows so certainly who she is and matches that with unparalleled talent and experience.” She’s become the person I go to whenever I need advice, and she’s who you want to talk to when things are complicated or if you have a moment of insecurity. “She came into the show and became the rock that grounded our company. “Krysta has a remarkable ability to cut the bullshit,” says Kathryn Gallagher, the actress who met Rodriguez when they both appeared in Deaf West Theatre’s production of Spring Awakening. The role of trusted confidant is one Rodriguez was seemingly born to play. We see Halston in his fashion world and with the people he works with, and you see him with his lovers, but his relationship with Liza, is in a way the backbone of the piece.” Then we had a little, post-concert scene where we're drunk and I'm telling her about her look, and from that moment on, we just clicked. “It was just amazing she can really do that. “The first thing we shot with Krysta was her doing ‘Liza with a Z,’ and I was sitting there with David Pittu and the lights went down and on Krysta came and she just blew us away,” McGregor says. RALPH LAUREN TOP ($2,590) AND PANTS ($1,390), RALPHLAUREN.COM HARRY WINSTON EARRINGS AND RINGS, HARRYWINSTON.COM. Audiences should expect to be floored, and Rodriguez’s costars say that they were as well. In her earliest moments on screen, Rodriguez is dynamite she simultaneously delivers a knockout performance of Minnelli’s signature Kander and Ebb number and establishes her Liza as smart, funny, gutsy, and preternaturally talented. For her first scene, Rodriguez filmed Minnelli performing “Liza with a Z” in a nightclub for an audience including Halston and fashion illustrator Joe Eula. She also learned how to make an entrance worthy of the character. They never tiptoe around each other, and that’s what lets them continue to grow as friends.” The function of Liza in this series is to be that person who is with him through more things than anyone else she’s there when he calls in the middle of the night, she’s the one who talks him down when he’s threatening to walk off at Versailles. The rest of the characters exist in relation to him. Rodriguez says, “The show is about Halston, it’s his story.
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