Broadway BUZZ

Mercedes Ruehl is reprising her role as Mrs. Beckoff in Torch Song after playing the role off-Broadway. She earned Tony, Drama Desk, and Helen Hayes Awards for Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers and Academy & Golden Globe Awards for The Fisher King. Additional theater: The Shadowbox (Tony nom.), Edward Albee's The Goat (Tony nom.), Woman Before a Glass (Obie Award), The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Obie), Other People's Money (Clarence Derwent Award), The Rose Tattoo (Drama Desk nom.), The American Plan, Albee's The Occupant, Simon's The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Old Vic), Full Gallop (Old Globe). Additional films include Married to the Mob (National Society of Film Critics Award), Big, Heartburn, Minus Man. She has been seen on TV in Bull, Life in Pieces, Power, Law & Order: SVU, Luck, Frasier, Gia.