Sydney Lemmon offers some apologies if she sounds a bit tired. It’s the morning after the opening night of her Broadway show “Job” and she and the cast, along with her family and freinds, were out on the later side.
“It was just a huge celebration and it’s been such an exciting week leading up to it. It’s been a thrill ride,” she says.
“Job” arrives this week on Broadway after two sold-out runs off-Broadway, amid much buzz and anticipation. Lemmon stars in the show alongside “Succession” actor Peter Friedman as a tech employee who is put on leave after being part of a viral video; Friedman plays a crisis therapist she starts seeing.
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“It’s been beautiful to connect with people at this stage door who work in tech and who feel really seen by this play. It’s been great to connect with young audience members who just feel so lit up by coming out to Broadway and seeing a show,” Lemmon says. “It’s not your typical Broadway audience. These people are young and it’s cool to reach them.”
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The show is a true breakout for Lemmon, who previously was on Broadway as an understudy in “The Parisian Woman” in 2017 when she was fresh out of drama school.
“I was so excited to have that opportunity because there’s just nothing like Broadway, the energy, the feeling. It really is just pure magic,” she says. “I remember my first time stepping onto a Broadway stage. It’s just like there’s so much energy, there’s so many people. It’s a big feeling. So now to have this role of my own, and especially one that we’ve developed for a year now and got up out of the mud from off-Broadway, to get to take that part that I’ve been working on for so long and continue the work is just the privilege of a lifetime.”
Lemmon, who is the granddaughter of legendary actor and two-time Oscar winner Jack Lemmon, always knew she wanted to be an actor.
“I loved doing school plays, and I was always very drawn to acting and loved studying it in school. The love of education is what really cemented the foundation of my interest in it,” she says. “So yeah, I think I always knew.”
For opening night, she worked with stylish Leith Clark and wore a Rodarte dress, Maison Ernest shoes, Belperron bracelets and a Kurt Geiger bag. For glam she worked with hairstylist Chris Naselli and makeup artist Shayna Goldberg.
“We came off stage and had 20 minutes to get everything together before zooming off to the party,” she says of the night. “I was so happy with the look and felt a glamorous little lady.”