![]() The aging superstar-still feisty, yet elegiac-looks back at her glorious career and her ambivalent 28-year love affair with Spencer Tracy. When the curtain goes up on Act Two, 45 years have passed. In Act One-the year is 1938-a strapping and driven Hepburn is agonizing over her future, despite her many Broadway appearances and an Oscar under her belt. Set at Hepburn's Fenwick estate in Old Saybrook, Conn., "Tea at Five" features the famed actress reflecting, at two junctures, on her life, her career, and her family, the last awash in tragedy. Mulgrew is perhaps best known as Captain Kathryn "Kathy" Janeway on the syndicated hit, "Star Trek: Voyager." She was the first woman in "Star Trek" lore to lead the starship, a post she held for seven seasons. But when Matthew Lombardo sent me the script-he wrote it for me-I thought, as I have only a few times in my life, this is exactly what I have to do." I wanted to be an actress in my own right. "I've often been compared to her, vocally and because I look a bit like her," Mulgrew continues, "and I was slightly resentful. "I was never particularly drawn to Katharine Hepburn quite the contrary," notes actress Kate Mulgrew, who is now playing Hepburn in "Tea at Five," a solo show that opened Off-Broadway at the Promenade Theatre on March 16. ![]()
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