Tony First-Timers: Far from Blush and Bashful, Prayer for the French Republic's Betsy Aidem Treasures Being a 'Late Bloomer'
Exactly 40 years ago, Betsy Aidem talked her way into John Malkovich's now legendary off-Broadway production of Balm in Gilead alongside future stars Laurie Metcalf, Gary Sinise and Terry Kinney. "I crashed that audition," she confessed to Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek on The Broadway Show. "I was impatient, I was fearless and adventurous, and I had a certain kind of rage." Four decades later, those qual…