Stephanie Styles Breaks Out From a Red-eye to Broadway

The third time was a charm for Stephanie Styles when it came to Broadway success — and it came at quite the hustle. After trying two other times to make it to the Great White Way, Styles at last hit pay dirt with the part of Lois Lane in “Kiss Me, Kate” opposite Kelli O’Hara and Will Chase. But she had to move fast to get it: After wrapping a movie in L.A. at 8 p.m., Styles hopped on a red-eye to New York, went to the Tonys — “did my own makeup, my friend did my hair, I didn’t even shower, I sprayed tons of perfume on” — stopped by a few after parties “very soberly” and woke up early for her “Kiss Me, Kate” audition the next morning. Later in the week, she was walking through the West Village, about to head up to Central Park to meet friends for a picnic when she got the call that the role was hers. “It was a whirlwind, very New York week,” she says. The 27-year-old was born and raised in Houston, did her first professional show at age six, in Texas, before going on tour with “The Sound of Music” at age

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