Here’s what you’ll see of JC Hayward in “A Time to Kill.”
(Joan Marcus)
For a first-time actress, JC Hayward has snagged what you might call the role of a lifetime: The WUSA (Channel 9) anchor is playing a TV reporter in the new Arena Stage production of John Grisham’s “A Time to Kill.”
The month-long run isn’t getting in the way of her day job — in a nifty bit of staging, Hayward appears via video clips of faux news stories showing her character, Felicia Albright, covering the trial at the heart of the drama. After nearly 40 years in broadcasting, it’s her first real time playing one (a cameo in “Armageddon” got left on the cutting-room floor), and Hayward’s exulting in it. If it goes to Broadway, she told our colleague Erin Williams, “will I be nominated for a Tony?”
JC Hayward
(Courtesy of Arena Stage)
Hayward — who, as it happens, was just named to Arena’s board of trustees — taped the role on such short notice that she didn’t end up in the original cast list, just a flier inserted into the playbill. So at opening night, “I had to notify everybody that was seated around me, ‘I’m the insert. I’m the insert.’ And they would go, ‘Huh?’ ‘In your book — I’m the insert.’ So they got excited then: ‘Oh wow, she’s seated next to us.’ ”
Read earlier: Need an anchorman type? Cast an anchorman. Local TV journos play themselves on the big screen, 11/22/10
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