Beginning the discussion with the question of when, or if, work becomes fun, our guests, lead actors and Tony Award winners -- Jane Alexander (1969 for The Great White Hope), Bill Irwin (2005 for Best Actor for Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Angela Lansbury (five-time winner including for Mame, Gypsy and Sweeney Todd), Cynthia Nixon (2006 Best Actress for Rabbit Hole), and Geoffrey Rush (2009 Best Actor winner for Exit the King) -- also talk about how they choose roles and whether they'd consider playing smaller roles on the stage today; what they feel from an audience and how they react as audience members; their relationship to, and the role of, the stage manager; how much they consciously set the tone for the company; how they balance the thoughts of the playwright and the director -- and how they handle it when the two don't agree; and whether they follow stage directions from the existing script.