“I was obsessed at 7 years old...I saw Cats at the Shubert Theatre in Chicago and .there wereadults dressed as cats, jumping and singing and dancing around life-sized trash and it lookedlike fun and I thought ‘that’s a job!?’ I wanna do that!” - Kate BaldwinPals for over a decade and a half, it was nothing but a joy to catch up with Broadway’s KateBaldwin. Audiences will know her from starring roles on Broadway in Hello, Dolly!, Finian’sRainbow (TONY nominated for both), and Big Fish...Off-Broadway in John and Jen, Giant(DRAMA DESK nominated for both), Superhero, Songbird and Babes in Arms. A darling of theregional theater circuit for decades, Kate and I chat about our time with Barry Manilow andBruce Sussman’s Harmony, being mother to a Pokemon expert, her formative time working intheatres across the country and the puzzle of creating and marketing art to a contemporary,post-pandemic audience.