Marla Mindelle, the star of Off Broadway’s Golden Age fantasia “The Big Gay Jamboree,” gets anxiety during every performance. Sure, the delightfully ridiculous show — in which she plays a struggling actress who blacks out after drinking and wakes up to find she’s trapped in a classic musical, has been running since September. But muscle memory doesn’t negate her crippling stage fright.
“I have such dread — not because the show is bad — but I’m concerned about doing a good job,” she says.
None of this panic is evident in Mindelle, whose over-the-top, irreverent sensibilities and proclivity for trolling the audience have turned the 39-year-old into the
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