Martha Plimpton Lights Up The Stage In 'Pal Joey'

Martha Plimpton stopped by our studio to talk about her role in the Broadway musical, "Pal Joey."

Set in Chicago in the 1930s, the play follows the character of Joey Evans as he strives to make his dreams of owning his own nightclub come to fruition. A scheming song and dance man, Evans abandons his wholesome girlfriend for a rich--and married--older woman in hopes that she'll set him on the path to success. The musical is based on a book by John O' Hara and the situations and characters depicted are drawn from a series of short stories he had penned in The New Yorker. Martha Plimpton plays sexy chorus girl Gladys Bumps.

You could say Plimpton has show business in her blood; she was born to two actors: Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton. A native New Yorker, Plimpton began her career in modeling and made her acting debut at the age of eleven in Rollover. She later went on to work with Woody Allen in Another Woman and alongside Robert DeNiro in Stanley & Iris. In 2007 received a Tony Award Nomination and won the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her performance in Tom Stoppard's "The Coast of Utopia."

"Pal Joey" is now running at Studio 54 on Broadway. For more information, please visit: www.paljoeyonbroadway.com.

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