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| • | "'I dedicate this performance to Mayor Bloomberg', said a rebellious Margaret Colin, who chain-smokes her way through the second act of 'A Day in the Death of Joe Egg,' a revival of the acclaimed British play that opened last night at the American Airlines Theatre. Colin insists that smoking cigs in the play is right, both for the time period - the '60s, when tobacco's dangers were less known - and because her character is a high-strung woman who smokes because she's nervous and thinks it's glamorous. Such is the fear of secondhand smoke in auditoriums these days that Colin says she's seen people in the front rows hold up tissues to their mouths and noses to avoid it. 'It brings out the snideness in me,' she said. 'It makes me want to blow smoke in their face!' Colin, an on-again, off-again smoker who goes to the alley behind the theater if she wants any unscripted cigarettes, enjoys her onstage puffs. 'It's such a rebellious thing to do,' she said, adding that what she smokes onstage are real cigarettes - not the herbal ones favored by some actors", New York Post, Apr. 4, '03 |
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