Celebrating The Strong Women of Broadway
This past week, International Women’s Day took center stage. Women from all over the country and the world organized events, marched together and engaged in social media with the purpose of speaking up, and speaking out, demanding gender parity and respect.
Even some McDonald’s Restaurants turned the “M” on their golden arches upside down to become a “W” to celebrate and honor women.
Interviewing Hailey Kilgore, star of “Once on This Island” for the Broadway League’s “Strong Women of Broadway” video series.
In the spirit of this celebration, The Broadway League produced a series of videos. Titled “The Strong Women of Broadway”, 25 Broadway actresses took time out of their busy performance schedules to talk about women who have inspired them to be in the theatre.
https://youtu.be/CkDs51G0-WY?list=PL_AIf8gXO5iBvFXOzGByXLcio6U_uZVlJ
I was very happy to conduct the interviews and during our conversations, I asked each fabulous actress to describe what a woman is in one word.
There are many more episodes, so go watch all the videos on YouTube.
Here’s to the talented, strong, beautiful and wonderful women of Broadway!
Valerie Smaldone is a 5-time Billboard Magazine Award winner and is well known for her unprecedented success holding the #1 on-air position in the New York radio market on 106.7 Life-FM, an iHeart station. She has hosted, produced, and created several award-winning nationally syndicated programs featuring in-depth interviews with stars like Paul McCartney, Celine Dion, Rod Stewart, Elton John and Mariah Carey among others. Her radio talk show "Bagels and Broadway" highlighted theatre and food personalities. She is an accomplished interviewer and voice artist heard on commercials, narrations, promos and audiobooks, as well as a sought after live announcer.
Most recently, Valerie produced and directed a film, The Thursday Night Club, featuring pop diva Gloria Gaynor in her movie acting debut. She is one of the creators and producers of a docu-series, Divine Renovation, starring Erik Estrada, on streaming networks soon.
