Condola Rashad confessed to the Associated Press in 2012 that she didn't watch The Cosby Show when she was growing up, saying it would have been "mother overload." But she told W magazine that she vividly remembers her mom's theater performances — in the Broadway musicals The Wiz and Dreamgirls, for example. "The really exciting part was the rehearsal room and watching them take something from a page and bringing that to life and watching how they did that," she said. "I was able to be a fly on the wall. I'd be in tech rehearsals. I was really able to watch her process."
She also recalled watching her mom's plays Blues for an Alabama Sky or Medea from the audience and taking detailed notes that Phylicia Rashad would tell her to give to the director. And then the director would tell Phylicia to read them.
Turnabout is fair play, of course, and Condola revealed that, now that she's an actress, her performances are subject to Phylicia's reviews. "She'll allude to things but won't actually say it," Condola told W. "She'll be like, 'I wondered about that part.' And I'll be like, 'I know what you're trying to say.'"
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