I Am Kelli Trash

kelli o'hara & brian d'arcy james, days of wine and roses

Kelli O’Hara performing Katya’s song “Woman’s Work” from Adam Guettel’s 2007 Off-Broadway adaptation of Goncharov.

MUSICAL APPRECIATION WEEK | 2021 favorite stage production ♢ the bridges of madison county

There are so many moving parts in the show, and none of them can stop if you get hurt. Just look at her ring finger: There’s maybe about four millimeters of nail in the nail bed and nothing more because she got her hand stuck in a door one night in February, during the “I Hate Men” number. She slammed the door, and … her finger was inside the door. She couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t coming free. She stopped for a second, but she still had one phrase left to sing. She called for help in the pause, and once her hand was released, she managed to finish, in shock. Her nail was gone. The point is, if you’re prepared on other fronts, it’s easier to handle the occasional crisis.

73rd Annual Tony Awards Meet The Nominees Press Day | May 01, 2019

The 73rd Annual Tony Awards: Meet the Nominees Press Day

Celia Keenan-Bolger and Kelli O’Hara attend The 73rd Annual Tony Awards Meet The Nominees Press Day on May 01, 2019 in New York City.  

kelli o’hara in kiss me, kate

So In Love- Kelli O’Hara @ The Town Hall with Seth Rudetsky, 1/14/19

The Parent Trap (1998) dir. Nancy Meyers

Hi there. Broadways little sweet potato Kelli O’Hara is nominated for an Emmy. That’s it. Excuse me while I try not to scream with absolute joy at work.

Kelli O'Hara in rehearsal for The King and I in London

Did I tell you I had this dream where I was literally fraying? Like my skin was cloth unweaving. I’m completely out of my… Mom, I cannot forget about this phone call. If I had just picked up the phone… You know, I wanna both run away and give a shit at the same time?

Brigadoon | New York City Center | November 15, 2017 Kelli O’Hara as Fiona MacLaren Patrick Wilson as Tommy Albright “From This Day On”

Kelli O’Hara and Victoria Clark sing “We Are Women,” the comic duet written for the original London production of Candide, at NYCO’s Lucky to Be Me: The Music of Leonard Bernstein.