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| re: Did you ever see Anita Gillette on stage (other than the play last year) | |
| Posted by: FrauPeter 02:12 am EST 11/27/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Did you ever see Anita Gillette on stage (other than the play last year) - dbg 02:09 am EST 11/27/18 | |
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| There are tons of anecdotes from and about her in a book I enjoyed immensely called “Show and Tell” about theatre stories. | |
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| re: Did you ever see Anita Gillette on stage (other than the play last year) | |
| Posted by: RLand 11:58 am EST 11/27/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Did you ever see Anita Gillette on stage (other than the play last year) - FrauPeter 02:12 am EST 11/27/18 | |
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| Anita was Anna Alberghetti's standby in Carnival, when it opened in 1961. When Ms. Alberghetti took ill suddenly, Anita replaced her---somehow the word got out that she was terrific, and that was the beginning of her amazing career. I saw her do Lilli during that year---she gave a beautiful performance. Two other performance that I remember: an evening of short plays at the Vineyard around 1992---she created about five different women, all very believable and different. And in RIch and Famous, she and Ron Liebman both created about ten different personalities as they revolved around William Atherton's protagonist. She has great range-- a really terrific artist. |
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| re: Did you ever see Anita Gillette on stage (other than the play last year) | |
| Posted by: FleetStreetBarber 03:37 pm EST 11/27/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Did you ever see Anita Gillette on stage (other than the play last year) - RLand 11:58 am EST 11/27/18 | |
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| "Anita replaced her---somehow the word got out that she was terrific.." That "somehow" was David Merrick who sang Gillette's praises and said, according to Howard Kissel in "The Abominable Showman," "If I'd known she [Gillette] was this good when we were casting, she would have had the part." |
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| re: Did you ever see Anita Gillette on stage (other than the play last year) | |
| Posted by: EveryLittleChore 07:30 pm EST 11/27/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Did you ever see Anita Gillette on stage (other than the play last year) - FleetStreetBarber 03:37 pm EST 11/27/18 | |
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| When I was 12, I saw her as the ultimate ingenue in ALL AMERICAN. Loved her voice. Saw her again in JIMMY, which shackled her with very lame material which she still made sound better than it was. | |
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| re: Did you ever see Anita Gillette on stage (other than the play last year) | |
| Posted by: audienceguy 12:27 am EST 11/28/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Did you ever see Anita Gillette on stage (other than the play last year) - EveryLittleChore 07:30 pm EST 11/27/18 | |
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| I too saw her in "All American," and I too was 12-years-old. She sang "Nightlife" which had the lyric: Give me a moon And a Cole Porter tune. Those beguines don't begin to beguine In the afternoon. It was a pretty lame show, with Ray Bolger hogging the stage and mugging like crazy. But Gillette and Eileen Herlie were terrific. |
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