Laurie Metcalf ’s four decades-long acting career spans comedy and drama across television , film and stage . However there’s one dream she has yet to fulfill.

“I’ve always wanted to do a musical,” Metcalf tells me. “But my range of notes is only about seven notes. It would have to be an extremely specific part. I don’t know if that would ever be in my future, but I think it would be such a rush to be in a musical.

“I’m going to start manifesting it,” she adds with a laugh.

Metcalf is currently on Broadway in the preview run of Samuel D. Hunter ’s “Little Bear Ridge Road,” a family drama about a woman (Metcalf) who reunites with her estranged nephew (Micah Stock). Opening Oct. 30 at the Booth Theatre, the play marks Metcalf’s seventh collaboration with director Joe Mantello

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