Rosa Blasi stars in Hermosa Beach’s ‘Sound of Music’
Rosa Blasi. Photo Television actress Rosa Blasi is a true beauty – sensuously radiant and voluptuous. So let me see now, says the journalist as he wipes his fogged-up glasses, You’re playing the part of Maria in “The Sound of Music” this weekend at the Hermosa Beach Playhouse? In this musical you’re appearing as a nun, right? Isn’t that, umm, a bit counter to your usual image? “Yes, definitely,” Rosa replies. “When I was telling some of my girlfriends that I’m going to be in a nun’s habit I asked them to try and contain their laughter.” Then she retreats a little: “Of course, I’m about to do this show on Nickelodeon where I will be a mom, and that’s very wholesome. And I have played wholesome characters in the past.” But she doesn’t want to back off too far. “I definitely have a very edgy side. So, that’s where the acting comes in.” Big stage, small screen Rosa Blasi formerly starred in Lifetime’s “Strong Medicine” and currently has a role in “The Thundermans,” now on Nickelodeon. But Rosa, who bought her first home in Hermosa Beach a little over ten years ago, grew up in Chicago where she was classically trained as a mezzo-soprano and also – between the ages of about 8 and 21…
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