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Another of the orphans making her Broadway debut was Stephanie Mills, who would eventually end up in "The Wiz." "We were kids and with touring and everything, we got into a lot of trouble," Cara recalls. In 1967, at age 8, she made her Broadway debut in the Jack Cassidy-Shirley Jones musical "Maggie Flynn," playing one of six black Civil War orphans raised by Jones. The daughter of a white Cuban mother and a black Puerto Rican father, Cara's been involved with performing since she was 7, originally appearing on a New York Spanish language television station. They've grown! I asked them, 'Do you think I've changed?' And they didn't really say anything, so I guess I haven't." She laughs, knowing this is not true.
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"I didn't really know the TV kids," Cara admits, "except for Gene and Lee. Cara appeared as a famous "alumnus" of the High School for the Performing Arts, singing, conveniently, her new hit single, "Why Me." The segment will air in February. Two weeks ago, she went back to her roots again, visiting the next generation of kids from "Fame" (only Debbie Allen, Gene Anthony Ray and Lee Curreri carried over from the film version). " Cara puffs up her cheeks and compresses her slender neck, trying to look like Linda Blair. If you look at me in 'Sparkle,' when I was 16, and 'Roots: The Next Generation,' when I was 19. "There's a certain age where you really change and you go through another one when you're older. Like Cara herself, "Sparkle" may have been a little ahead of its time.The 1976 film is the story of a Supremes-like group, "the first 'Dreamgirls,' " according to Cara, who played the title role. "It was nice after all those years to get back together and see just how far we've come." "Joel and I worked together about eight years ago on 'Sparkle,' " she says.
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In it, Cara does a cameo of herself catching a cab whose driver (played by comedian Charlie Barnett) turns out to be her biggest fan. Cab," a surprise low-budget hit shot here last summer. Which is what director-writer Joel Schumacher did in "D.C. listen, the best way to get me up in the morning is to put me in a movie." I get so sucked into a part that I'm more concerned with what we're doing that day that anything else, from when I first wake up. "Except when I'm doing a film, believe it or not. Getting up at any time, Cara admits, is not a favorite thing. A coffeepot bubbles in the background, its promise of caffeine somehow comforting. Her voice is slightly raspy, the eyes still adjusting to openness. There will be pictures and so Cara takes her time making up a light-cocoa face already beautiful, just not quite smoothed out at this hour. She's just flown in from Los Angeles on the redeye.
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On a Saturday afternoon in her Watergate Hotel suite, Cara is still thinking morning. "Naaaw," she says, still a Bronx girl at heart. How do you play a character who is actually yourself-method-actor style? 2 pop hit of 1983 and a suitable follow-up to the title song from "Fame," which did the same trick for her in 1980.
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What a feeling-this also being the name of Cara's Grammy-nominated theme from "Flashdance," the No. Now, at 24, she makes personal appearances. Cab" and in an upcoming segment of the "Fame" television show spun off from the 1980 film that helped make Cara a star 14 years after she went into theater. For Irene Cara, the price of "Fame" is to play.