Annaleigh Ashford says Sarah Jessica Parker left ‘blueprint’ for role in ‘Sylvia,’ co-starring SJP’s hubby Matthew Broderick

Carrie Bradshaw isn’t the only role Sarah Jessica Parker permanently put her stamp on. In 1995, she left an indelible mark on the title character — a Manhattan mutt — in A.R. Gurney’s play, “Sylvia.” So says the effervescent Annaleigh Ashford, who won a Tony in June for “You Can’t Take It With You” and now plays Sylvia opposite SJP’s hubby Matthew Broderick as the married Upper West Sider who adopts her. “Sarah Jessica left me kind of a blueprint. You can feel it in the text,” Ashford tells the Daily News’ Joe Dziemianowicz. “You can feel her natural vulnerability within the piece.” Like a true man’s best friend, Parker came in handy on one occasion when the cast found themselves grappling with a scene. “There was one day when we couldn’t figure out a moment,” says Ashford. She and Broderick wrestled with a scene in which Sylvia declares in a Jamaican accent, “Dis is da life.” “I asked Matthew, ‘Do you remember what it meant?’ He was like, ‘I don’t. Do you want me to go home and ask (her)?’ It’s the only time he did it though. But then we kind of found something and he never told… Read full this story

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