Great story!
She also did a couple of seasons at the other big Canadian festival, The Shaw Festival. I think she played Lina Szczepanowska in MISALLIANCE and the year after the Tony win she played Madame Ranevskaya in THE CHERRY ORCHARD.
She was also in the very first play I ever saw, DONKEY'S YEARS opposite David McCallum in summer stock in the late '70s.
And I grew up loving her voice in THE ARISTOCATS and ROBIN HOOD.
She was one of that great group of Anglo-American actors who had virtually their entire careers in the States and Canada: people like Rosemary Harris, Zoe Caldwell (Australian), Brian Bedford, Paxton Whitehead, Barbara Bryne and the recently-departed Brian Murray (South African). They have enriched North American theatre mightily. |
