BWW Interviews: KAY AYERS Tackles This Week's FRIDAY FIVE

Inspired by BroadwayWorld.com's Friday Six, welcome to Nashville.BroadwayWorld.com's latest installment of The Friday Five: five questions designed to help you learn more about the talented people you'll find on stages in the Volunteer State.

Today's spotlight falls upon Kay Ayers, one of Nashville's favorite and most versatile actresses, who this weekend completes her run as Melpomene in Boiler Room Theatre's production of Xanadu, in which she delivers a "deliciously wicked" performance (paired with Julie Brown-of "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun" fame-doppelganger Jordan Tudor), which allows her to show off her gorgeous voice and her dead-on comic timing.

What was your first "live onstage" taste of theater? First live onstage taste of theatre…7 year old dance recital….I tapped like nobody's business!

What is your favorite pre-show ritual? Re-reading all of my lines in my script. (and I sometimes realize I've been saying something wrong!)

What's your most memorable "the show must go on" moment? Most memorable show must go on….very recently in Xanadu, I fell off of the stage exiting, right into a brick wall. Then I came right back on with roller skates…and fell again! So I ended up with a concussion, blown knee, sprained wrist and bloody hand. But I went on!

What's your dream role? Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing-and now I'm almost getting too old to do her. I'm heartbroken!

Who's your theatrical crush? Probably Mandy Patinkin. He's a theater god!