| About Barbara Harris | |
| Posted by: Whistler 03:47 am EDT 08/24/18 | |
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| About Barbara Harris, from Chicago-based actor Richard Henzel: She was my friend, and for several months my "wife" in "Prelude to a Kiss." Mike Nichols directed her Tony Award winning "The Apple Tree" on Broadway: I got my Equity card years later playing The Snake in that show at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. And once, twenty years or so ago, when Frank Farrell, Barbara, and I were scouting locations in the Palos Hills Forest Preserve for the "As You Like It" Theatre Hike, she and I were walking down the trail (Frank was elsewhere) and we came to a stream. When Barbara looked into the water, I said my line, "There's no one there, Eve," and we began the scene from "The Apple Tree" between The Snake and Eve, and ever the embodiment of "Yes, And..." she joined right in. We did the scene and my song there alone in the woods, and no one ever saw it. But I will never forget you Barbara, you crazy, beautiful, wonderful, brilliant, and--did I say crazy?--GENIUS. She was my date for a Second City reunion celebration the last time I spent any length of time with her. It was years ago. They seated us in a special section and she was introduced to the audience. She ordered a coke and one of their bug pint glasses of peanuts. During the fist act she ate the entire pint of peanuts. She excused herself at intermission, went off--I assumed--to use the restroom, but she never came back. I called her the next day and she said she was tired and went home. I still had her jacket, which she had left behind. The next day, I took it to her apartment on Cedar (she had lost her place on Montrose by then) and she invited me in. We talked and when I told her that I was working on "Midsummer Night's Dream" she started into the first scene between Titania and Oberon, opening the floor to ceiling curtains at the big windows that revealed the whole living room to the hundreds of apartments that faced her building, and if anyone was watching, we were performing Shakespeare for them. |
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