"Kristen Nielsen says her friend committed suicide during Coast of Utopia. It was so long she willed her heart to stop beating."
An aside: during a preview performance of CoU, actor Richard Easton delivered the line: "...and that is my final word", headed offstage, then dropped to the ground, having suffered a heart attack.
There wasn't a doctor in the house, but a stagehand performed CPR on him until paramedics arrived. Easton recovered and returned to the show, living another decade before dying in 2019. |
