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Rita Gardner has a good memory. In fact, few inhabitants of the theatre remember things as well as her. As a girl, she once played hooky to catch Judy Garland at The Palace. Richard Rodgers was in the audience. He came on stage and played for Judy proclaiming, “You're everybody's daughter … that's why we love you so much!" Years later, he came to see The Fantasticks and then took Rita to dinner. "He bought me my first shrimp cocktail. I couldn't eat a thing. I was so nervous. His music was playing in the background and he was overflowing with stories. It was magic". And so is Rita Gardner – and her memories.
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Rita Gardner is remembering. Watching her on the small stage of Metropolitan Room, beautifully performing songs and telling compelling stories from the Golden Age of Off-Broadway (the late 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s), one word comes to mind above all others: “authentic.” For she was there, performing in the small theatres and nightclubs of NY where, as she says, there weren’t many chairs and most of them were broken. She was there, in the cast of Nightcap, a revue that established Jerry Herman as a songwriter with a future.
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Meeting comedienne/actress Geri Jewell is a bit of a surprise. Like many performers I've mostly known from television and film, she is much smaller in person. In her case, almost delicate and very pretty, and far younger than her years. When amused, her laughter is quick, loud and contagious. When in a more introspective mood, she becomes thoughtful and almost translucent in her honesty.
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Meeting comedienne/actress Geri Jewell is a bit of a surprise. Like many performers I've mostly known from television and film, she is much smaller in person. In her case, almost delicate and very pretty, and far younger than her years. When amused, her laughter is quick, loud and contagious. When in a more introspective mood, she becomes thoughtful and almost translucent in her honesty.Tweet this article !
Pictured l. to r.: Ira Bilowit, ATCA member and co-moderator; Tim Sanford, artistic director, Playwrights Horizons; Adam Rapp, playwright; Emily Mann, artistic director, McCarter Theatre; Richard Nelson, playwright; Chris Rawson, ATCA Chair and co-moderator.
Over the course of my 30-year editorship of Back Stage, I interviewed many people who wanted to write theatre reviews for us. The writers that I did eventually choose all had THE qualities that I was looking for and met the standards that I set up. Here’s some of the things that I considered:
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