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Article: Maintaining Callas' `Class' // Dunaway hopes to meet diva's standards
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 2, 1997
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`Master Class'
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DAYTON, Ohio Faye Dunaway jokes about the spirit of Maria Callas
"doing it to me all the time. She plays tricks on me, making me
realize this play isn't just a play, it's about real life."
No sooner does the Oscar winner settle in for a chat about her
national tour in "Master Class," Terrence McNally's Tony
Award-winning play about Maria Callas, than she gets the chance to
prove her point.
There is a knock at the door of the hotel suite, and a young
staff member arrives with pots of tea and coffee, ordered by Dunaway.
As Dunaway goes to sign for the beverages, the waitress asks
her, ...