Leap of Faith

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"I love when they say 'overnight star,' " laughs Broadway sensation Faith Prince. "I've been here for twelve years!" And yet as Miss Adelaide—the squeaky-voiced, psychosomatically sniffling wannabe wife of Nathan Detroit in the smash revival of Guys and Dolls—Prince has made such a vivid impression she seems like a revelation from out of the blue. As the "overnight" accolades pour in, the Virginia-born veteran wants it known that her dues have been paid in full. After years of Off Broadway work, she won a Tony nomination for Jerome Robbins' Broadway, originated the role of the breakdownladen wife in Falsettoland, and stole the ill-fated Nick & Nora in a delicious act of petty larceny. Now her phone's ringing off the hook and Prince beams, "I've worked a long time to have these kinds of problems!"

MICHAEL MUSTO