KITTY CARLISLE 96th Birthday show at El Portal Theater.

[DAME]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:28pm

Renamed this thread so as not to start a new one.



Kitty

Updated On: 8/6/06 at 11:28 PM

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:34pm

who is she?

[DAME]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:37pm

OH MY GOD. Give me that gay card.

[justme2]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:38pm

Man...now there's a show I'd love to see! DAME, are you going to see it?

She was a theater star in the 1903's/1940's (one Marx brothers movie I remember her in was Night at the Opera). Then, she showed up on countless Game shows in the 1950's, such as What's my Line? and "To Tell the Truth.

She was married to Moss Hart, the playwright, and has been active in theater right up to...and including...yesterday.


here's an IMDB link:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137634/

Updated On: 1/4/06 at 11:38 PM

[DAME]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:39pm

I think so. We might make a weekend of it.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:40pm

*bitchslaps Marquise into next week*

[DAME]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:42pm

Make it 4 weeks

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:42pm

There are two women whose very presence at an event in New York always make me smile and thank god I live here.

One is Kitty Carlisle Hart and the other is Betty Comden.

Whatever happened to class? They got it all.

[DAME]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:44pm

Getting tickets for Saturday night.

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:46pm

oh forgive me for not knowing who kitty carlisle hart is.
i also can't stand barbra streisand and i really don't care for judy garland or liza minnelli... does that make me a bad homosexual?

[Calvin]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:46pm

Dude. She wrote those tell-all books about Nancy Reagan having an affair with Frank Sinatra and such, right?

No, actually, she was at the table next to me when I saw Carol Channing a few months ago (she and Stephen Spinella). She was quite nice.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:48pm

Yes, Marquise. In fact, it does. When was the last time you even looked at your manual???

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:49pm

there's a MANUAL?!!!

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:50pm

i just want you all to know that those bitch-slaps really hurt my cara....

[DAME]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:50pm

Marquise,
She is a cool lady. Google and read.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:51pm

Longtime chair of the New York State Council on the Arts, she is the widow of director/writer Moss Hart, she began her career as an opera singer and appeared as the ingenue in the Marx Brothers film A Night at the Opera.

Updated On: 1/4/06 at 11:51 PM

[justme2]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:52pm

*jealous DAME has tickets for the show and I have to stay in SF*

Have fun and write a stunningly detailed review for me, please.

[DAME]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:53pm

I don't have tickets yet. I want to buy directly from the theater tomorrow.
By the way.. the npr interview offered in the above link is very cool.

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:54pm

you see, this is what i love about the board. i get to learn something.

[DAME]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:55pm

And I want to teach you a thing or two.

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:58pm

que quieres decir con eso?

[DAME]

Posted: 1/5/06 at 12:00am

Tu sabes exactamente.

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/5/06 at 12:03am

[justme2]

Posted: 1/5/06 at 12:04am

I shall give it a listen...

[DAME]

Posted: 1/5/06 at 12:05am

justme2.. she just sounds so delightful in the interview. I hope I have that energy if I ever see 95.