quite a wild ride. It was great to be with the play as it progressed, and to see all the different flavors of audience that you got.

The financial security [in TV] is incredible. I'm married and would like to start a family, and nothing's better for that than a television show. It keeps you in one place.

[To date, Shane Mungit remains Weller's] most interesting role. I thought Richard [Greenberg] did an amazing job of writing such a strangely sympathetic, but dangerous, narrow-minded young man. He was an amazingly complicated character. ... I just worked on the sympathetic part. To me, what made that character wonderful was his intense, emotional need. That was the main challenge.

[His role of Glengarry office manager John Williamson, a sort of cobra but with less warmth, marks Weller's second Broadway success in a row directed by Joe Mantello — coming on the heels of his memorable bigoted baseball pitcher Shane Mungit in Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out .] It's a great feeling to be in a hit that has won the Tony [as Best Play], ... as it is now [Best Revival].

[He was cast as Officer Johnny Sandowski in the 1993-94 ABC series,] Missing Persons. ... Daniel J. Travanti, from 'Hill Street Blues,' played the captain of the department. It lasted one season. We limped along, extended six episodes at a time, but it was fun working in Chicago [the show's locale] for a year.

Our girls have been doing a good job of getting themselves mentally ready to play the last couple of days. We've had some time in January to work some things out in practice . . . and I think that's really helped us with our timing, not only on offense, but on defense.