It got to the point, Sweeney jokes, where “I’d even find myself driving home late at night, going, ‘Why didn’t I ever meet someone? I’m such a delight! I don’t see why - Oh, wait! Oh, my God! I did meet someone. Her 10 years in a different city started to feel like a dream. routines, spending most evenings at the Groundlings, the improv company where she first studied comedy, working on new material. And she quickly fell back into her old L.A. She rented it out during her Illinois sojourn - but after a coat of paint she felt right at home again. She has owned this house, a pretty Spanish-style bungalow, since 1990. “Here I am, this is what I look like now, these are my thoughts now, cast me in something - is basically the show,” says Sweeney, sitting in her living room in Larchmont Village. (She debuted the show in January 2018 in Chicago, to admiring reviews, and has taken it to several other cities the Geffen run marks its L.A. Older and Wider is a calling card, announcing her return to audiences and directors alike. After working for more than a decade as a stay-at-home mom in a suburb of Chicago, she celebrated her daughter’s high school graduation last June by moving back to Hollywood, ready to pick up where she left off. Sweeney developed her latest one-woman show, Older and Wider, in part to answer this question. But look again at the eyes: big and blue, with a twinkle. Julia Sweeney - didn’t she play the androgynous office worker Pat on Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s? And then didn’t she evolve into a successful monologist, spinning her life into the one-woman shows God Said Ha! and Letting Go of God? In the new show’s poster, although she doesn’t in fact look measurably wider, she does have gray hair - a radical move for a female star nowadays. theatergoers of a certain vintage may experience deja vu driving past the Geffen Playhouse, where the show Julia Sweeney: Older and Wider opens Feb.
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