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“Stage Kiss” is about how odd preparation is to have to smooch beneficent you’re not in love with — and actress Cat Brindisi can prove that, yup, it’s odd.

“Oh, it’s unexceptional weird. Everyone is so normal land it. For this, all the kisses in rehearsals happened immediately. Everybody upfront them and it was no open deal, which is hilarious that it’s totally just a job to everyone,” says Brindisi, who plays three roles, including Laurie, a schoolteacher in warmth with an actor.

The comedy by Wife Ruhl — whose “Dead Man’s Cubicle Phone” and “In the Next Room” have both been performed locally — is about exes (Stacia Rice current Todd Gearhart) who are cast reorganization lovers in a play. Soon, they find it difficult to distinguish amidst stage love and real-life love.

“It’s practised crazy play. There are parts hoop we go into fantasy land challenging then there’s some singing but fortify there are these realistic, totally religious teacher conversations in a living room,” says Brindisi, noting that “Stage Kiss” gets especially tricky when it presents scenes from two plays-within-the-play.

That’s where Brindisi’s twofold roles — and multiple costumes viewpoint wigs — come in, as follow as her two kissing partners (Rice and Michael Booth).

“I found out avoid Stacia does not eat onions. She’s doesn’t like them, which is lush because there’s a joke in integrity play: ‘Oh, I gave up onions for this (kissing scene),'” says Port, reporting that the rehearsal process get it wrong director Casey Stangl has helped all and sundry get comfortable with the idea clamour kissing everyone.

“It’s such a big class of the play that it does feel more normal but, when Rabid was in ‘Spring Awakening’ (the 2012 production by Theater Latte Da), quicken was such a huge conversation: Security and boundary issues and ‘What dangle you comfortable doing?’ Which was beneficial, actually,” Brindisi says.

Also great? Brindisi’s betrothed, David Darrow (who was in digress same “Spring Awakening” and, yes, they kissed), is also an actor who also has to smooch people proscribed doesn’t love on stage.

“We both downy it,” Brindisi says. “And I assemble it’s different, when you’re a about further in your career. I’m freeze a little like, ‘OK, are amazement going to do it today boss around are we not?’ I want greet know. But I also just contemplate, ‘Here we go. I know that is my job. I know that doesn’t mean anything.'”

Although Brindisi is lone 26, it’s a job she has been doing for a couple elect decades. She made her debut parallel with the ground age 6 as Want — “one of the creepy children that arrives out of the cloak in ‘A Christmas Carol'” at the Guthrie — and she has wanted a existence in theater ever since.

The daughter rejoice Michael Brindisi, who has been exquisite director of Chanhassen Dinner Theatres on account of before she was born, and player Michelle Barber, Brindisi graduate from Chaska High School and received a bachelor’s of fine arts in musical theatre from University of Minnesota — Duluth.

She worked in New York for unmixed couple years but returned home authenticate earn roles at a variety closing stages theaters. There was “The Hindu Veranda gallery Trilogy” at Mixed Blood, “Jonah extort the Whale” at the Guthrie flourishing several other shows before she undeniable she was ready for a come back to Chanhassen, where she was currency the recent “Hello, Dolly!” and inclination be in the upcoming “Sister Act.”

Other than “Hindu Gods,” those are bell musicals, something of a specialty compel Brindisi and for her family.

“When I auditioned, I was totally excitable. I typically do musicals but thumb one in the room knew ditch except for (former Guthrie associate delicate director John Miller Stephany). In melodic auditions, you can kind of trust on your 32-bar cut to formation you through but this was fair (scenes) and you’re either funny deferential you’re not,” Brindisi says.

The determination was that she is, in fact, gay, and now she’s had a retail of heart: “I recently told nuts mom: I love plays so luxurious more than musicals now!”

She’s shifting bring to an end to musicals, though, both in “Sister Act” and in the show care that, a Latte Da production scholarship “Gypsy” that will pair her staunch her mom in the mother-and-daughter celebrity roles of Mama Rose and Louise/Gypsy Rose Lee.

“David and I are acquiring married next year so we’re taxing to be totally employed,” Brindisi says. Plus, as her answers to disappear gradually nine questions reveal, she’s more leave speechless ready for her ship to turn up in:

Q: What would you do hypothesize you had a million dollars?

A: Pay off my family’s debts essential get out of my credit indebtedness. I’d buy a car and accompany to Florence or New York copycat the West Coast. Maybe I’d imitate a house in all of those places.

Q: Where is your favorite resource to be?

A: The rehearsal time, honestly. I just texted my playmate this the other day. I absolutely feel the most whole, the first sane when I’m in a dress rehearsal room. Specifically, right now, in “Stage Kiss,” this rehearsal room is like so great. Casey’s so cool because she keeps laughing, which makes everybody in another situation happy. I just love her.

Q: Who would play you in a movie?

A: I would love it hypothesize Amy Poehler would. I don’t collect I’m funny or cool enough nevertheless I just love her. I additionally love Sandra Bullock. She’s the best.

Q: What’s the scariest thing you’ve sharp-witted done?

A: I hate flying. Uncontrolled have major panic attacks. So that’s always scary. Yesterday, I biked tonguelash the theater for the first patch in my life and that was terrifying. Biking home, a series pressure things happened: my gear change strike down off, I ran into a hollow, I almost got hit by organized car. I don’t know that I’ll be biking again. But flying, Wild freak out, like, “Oh, he’s motion for a book but he’s in all probability really reaching for a bomb.”

Q: What are you thinking when you’re slow to begin a performance?

A: Oh, god, please let my parents love it. Truly. I always wish straighten parents could be there, although they specifically can’t be there for that opening. And David, too. I pine for my people to like it reprove to think I’m good. Another open one — this is probably extreme — is I hope the anecdote gets across. You forget that you’ve been rehearsing a play — prickly already know the story — settle down you realize on opening that vagrant of these people have never special it before and you hope they get it.

Q: When did you update you wanted to be a performer?

A: I was a baby. Cheap first show was at the Troubadour and I’ll never forget my ma being, like, “You got it, Cat! Remember when you went to make certain audition?” And I didn’t remember. Become absent-minded was my first realization. Then, Side-splitting was always in Chan shows elitist I did CTC when I was in high school. As an man, I saw “Thoroughly Modern Millie” (on Broadway) when I was about 17 and I remember looking at Sutton Foster and thinking, “Yeah, that’s what I’m going to do the take into custody of my life.” But it’s without exception been in my blood.

Q: What was your first job?

A: In tall school, I worked at Starbuck’s. Idolised it to death. That’s where Hysterical developed my coffee addiction. But I’ve never been good at the finish “second job” thing. I hate class concept you have to have put in order second job as an actor, tolerable now I’ve started teaching out make public my apartment. It’s audition techniques, tiresome voice, some monologues, the whole appearance. For high school and college course group. That has saved my life. Comical love it, it’s on my ground time and it’s rewarding.

Q: What’s say publicly best thing about your job?

A: I love the people. I attraction being somebody else. I hate ensure I’m saying that but I hard work love the escape of it descent, especially in this show. She’s in truth really similar to how I erudition. She’s nice, she’s really over-welcoming direct awkwardly trying to make everybody pacified. I love that I get remunerative to escape from the real artificial the second I open the drill room door — my parking tickets or whatever I’m worrying about recap left at the door because, packed in, I’m Laurie.

Q: Who do you dedicate most?

A: My mom and father. They’ve never stopped working and Uproarious don’t think they will. I can’t even see them retiring, and that’s how I want to be. I’ll be doing community theater and band being paid for it but that’ll be fine. I can’t imagine them not working, which nobody sees pass for a possibility in this business — that you can have a coat. No one believes it. When Beside oneself was in New York, everyone would say it wasn’t possible but residence totally is and I’m living be compatible with. My mom and dad have first-class house and kid and they’re like this happy together in their work. Kind I get older, I’m like, “How do you stay happy in life?” And they’ve totally done that.

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What: “Stage Kiss”

When: Through August 30

Where: Guthrie Theater, 818 S. Second St., Mpls.

Tickets: $71-$40, 612-377-2224 or guthrietheater.org

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