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THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS
Whenever Melissa Ordway
(Abby) dons an evening gown
for a glamorous event like the
Daytime Emmys, she has two
avid fans watching her ever y
move: daughters Olivia and So-
phie! “They get ver y excited to
watch me get ready. They’re
like, ‘Mommy is turning into a
princess!’”
laughs the
actress.
“I’m like,
‘Yeah, I’m
going to the ball!” Of
course, Ordway has
to tr y to fend Olivia
Ordway landed
her fi rst TV series
with the comedy
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Queen For
The Day
Most performers new to daytime
comment on the fast pace of produc-
tion. Yet Loren Lott (Ana) took it in
stride, because she once worked as a
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“When you’re a swing, you don’t have time to
panic,” shares the Broadway vet.
and Sophie off
when they want to
help her without
hurting their feel-
ings. “They want
to brush my hair,
or be held, but
they have choco-
late and popsicles
all over them!’”
she smiles. “I feel so bad, because I’m
like, ‘Don’t touch Mommy! There’s a lot
of work that went into this!’”
swing actor on Broadway. “That means
I was an understudy to five people,
which means I needed to know fi ve dif-
ferent characters and five separate
scripts!” she explains with a
smile. “As a swing, you need to
be able to go on stage and do
any of those parts at any given
moment. I could get a call where
they say, ‘Hey, you need to be in
the lead of this Broadway show.’
And I had to be ready to jump in,
know what I was doing and not
be in anybody’s way! So to go
from that — with that kind of
pressure — to [a soap], it 100
percent helped me!”
AFF/CR/STEVENBERGMANOrdway’s daughters
love watching
Mommy get dolled up
for a special evening.