Hi there I'm Marcia Pizzo, and I'm
playing Annie Cannon.
Hi I'm Michelle Drexler, I'm playing Henrietta Leavitt.
One line that speaks to me...
the meaning of the play is:
"Because wonder will always get us there."
For me, the play is about seeing something
bigger and finding that you're a small
part in that bigger thing that that is
a life well-lived. I love that.
It's also amazing what these women were able to
accomplish at the turn of
the century;  we were still wearing
corsets and yet these women made
contributions to astronomy that we are still using today.
Yeah, that's extraordinary it's such a
privilege to play a woman like this and
I think it's "now" and it's timeless.
Learning the Astronomy, wrapping our heads around
the actual science of what these women
were doing has been amazing I loved it.
I love nerding out on it much. It's been
just really cool to learn about
the actual math and...
Also we have
to work with the plates... we want to
know specifically how they did it so we
can when we're up there be specific and
be true.
I think audiences can expect a
love story.  A love story between a man and a woman, a love story between women
colleagues, and a love story between
sisters.
And a spiritual journey. I think
it's really about the vastness of the
universe and how we're this small little
speck like those stars on those plates.
That's us and our life is a flash and
how do we make it count.
