Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

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Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/4/06 at 4:44pm

Today, the beautiful source of all that's good in American Theater turns 69.

All who saw her Princess Puffer in EDWIN DROOD and her star turn in SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR will carry the memories of her performances to their graves.

What grace! What charm! What nuance!

Happy Birthday to Loretta---and may she return to Broadway soon!

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"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

#2

re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/4/06 at 10:16pm

A bump for La Swit.

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"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

#3

re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/4/06 at 10:18pm

I don't think anyone cares.

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"Friends are the people you chose as family."....Me.

#4

re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/4/06 at 10:20pm

That's because they're too young and La Swit is like a fine wine that has to be savored. All the youngins want is Diet Coke WIth Lime.

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"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

#5

re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/4/06 at 10:23pm

What would would Carol Channing say if she knew you liked La Swit?

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"Friends are the people you chose as family."....Me.

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re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/4/06 at 10:23pm

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"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

Updated On: 11/4/06 at 10:23 PM

#7

re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/4/06 at 10:25pm

Having only seen her on M*A*S*H, I don't believe that I'm qualified to post in this thread.

#8

re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/4/06 at 10:27pm

You've only seen her in MASH? You don't know how this divine lady lights up a Broadway stage and illumintes every role she plays.

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"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

#9

re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/4/06 at 10:36pm

Thank you Wikipedia for bringing this information to the masses:

Swit is 5'6" (1.68 m) and wears a U.S. size 7 shoe.

In her 1986 book Needlepoint Scrapbook, she declares that "We are Ms. Pac-Man fanatics in our house." and has owned a Ms. Pac-Man machine. The book also includes a Ms. Pac-Man needslepoint(sic) design.

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And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."

#10

re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/4/06 at 10:41pm

Ms Pac-Man is amazing.

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"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

#11

re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/4/06 at 10:43pm

But wait - here's something strange-

'Swit married actor Dennis Holahan in 1983 and divorced him in 1985. She never remarried or had any children."

"Over the years she has owned horses, dogs and cats. Presently, she owns three cats and a horse."

"In her 1986 book Needlepoint Scrapbook, she declares that "We are Ms. Pac-Man fanatics in our house."


We?

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And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."

#12

re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/4/06 at 10:48pm

The house is filled with ghosts

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"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

#13

re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/4/06 at 10:49pm

Or some rather talented horses, dogs, and cats.

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And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."

#14

re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/4/06 at 10:50pm

What do you think I should send her for her birthday? I was thinking of one of my hand knit afghans or scarves.

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"Friends are the people you chose as family."....Me.

#15

re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/4/06 at 10:51pm

Well, she lives in New Jersey, so anything's possible.

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"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

#16

re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/5/06 at 1:58am

"We?"

Perhaps, she's "befriended" that enormous souse in the first picture I posted.

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"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

#17

re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/5/06 at 2:03am

I would give an eyetooth to see that same souse playing Ms.Pac-Man. Especially a two-player round with Ms. Swit herself.

That's

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And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."

#18

re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/5/06 at 8:26am

Watching that would be like seeing her in Drood replacing Cleo Laine.

The equivalent of that performance has only been matched by David Hasellhof in Jekyll/Hyde.

#19

re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/5/06 at 7:02pm

La Swit was amazing in DROOD. I couldn't get enough of her performance in that show.

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"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

#20

re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/5/06 at 9:48pm

That's nice that someone appreciated it.

I thought it was dreadful.

#21

re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/5/06 at 10:59pm

How could you say it was dreadful? The five or six people who were sitting the the orchestra section with me loved it. They even gave her a standing ovulation?

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"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

#22

re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/5/06 at 11:32pm

I was going to say "remember when her house was taken over by a deranged gun-toting fan?" but then I realized that was actually Sharon Gless. Oh well, same difference.

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re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/6/06 at 1:11am

Well, I've only seen her in M*A*S*H as well. But I still like her so... happy belated birthday to Loretta. :)

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"I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and dreamer of improbable dreams." - Doctor Who

"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables

#24

re: Happy Birthday to Loretta Swit

Posted: 11/6/06 at 9:53am

She's the pride of Passaic, NJ, Holy Rosary School, and Pope Pius XII HS!

Sto Lat!