Episode #6 - Kate Baldwin

“I was obsessed at 7 years old...I saw Cats at the Shubert Theatre in Chicago and .there were
adults dressed as cats, jumping and singing and dancing around life-sized trash and it looked
like fun and I thought ‘that’s a job!?’ I wanna do that!” - Kate Baldwin

Pals for over a decade and a half, it was nothing but a joy to catch up with Broadway’s Kate
Baldwin. Audiences will know her from starring roles on Broadway in Hello, Dolly!, Finian’s
Rainbow (TONY nominated for both), and Big Fish...Off-Broadway in John and Jen, Giant
(DRAMA DESK nominated for both), Superhero, Songbird and Babes in Arms. A darling of the
regional theater circuit for decades, Kate and I chat about our time with Barry Manilow and
Bruce Sussman’s Harmony, being mother to a Pokemon expert, her formative time working in
theatres across the country and the puzzle of creating and marketing art to a contemporary,
post-pandemic audience.