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Lindsay Mendez Reflects on Performing in Merrily We Roll Along While Pregnant: ‘I Like a Challenge’ (Exclusive)
Lindsay Mendez opens up to PEOPLE about the experience of performing in the hit Broadway revival of 'Merrily We Roll Along' while pregnant with her second baby, admitting during the Tony Awards Meet the Nominees junket earlier this month that "being busy actually is helpful in a waY" because it makes her pregnancy "go by."
Performing in eight shows a week can be grueling for any Broadway star, what with the physical demands, psychological discipline and total lifestyle commitment needed to get through a play or musical each night. The actress is starring alongside fellow Tony nominees Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe in Merrily We Roll Along, which tells the story of a successful composer named Franklin Shepard (Groff) looking back on his life, and the choices that led to the end of his relationship with once-inseparable friends Mary (Mendez) and Charlie (Radcliffe). Mary — an author who we meet at the top of the show as a surly, angry partygoer drowning her hurt in booze — is a physical role, with Tony nominated director Maria Friedman giving Mendez many levels to play with including a few trips to the floor.
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