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Posted: 8/10/07 at 4:50pm
So it is the first dress rehearsal for the 1972 production of Forum at the LA Music Center. Nancy Walker is playing Dominia. (She opted not to do the NY run.)
All the Big Donors to the LA Civic Opera are sitting in the house along with the powers-that-be while the actors do the costume parade. To save money the costumes had been rented. Some members of the cast were none to happy about this.
Enter Nancy Walker wearing panty hose--and nothing else. She pointed to her...nether region, and looked pointedly out into the darkened house. "See this? Its old. Its real old."
Pausing for effect, she then pointed to the wings and finished, "But its not half as old as those costumes you've got back there for me to wear!"
She turned on her heel and exited the stage slowly.
PS - Somebody wrote a check and she got a newly made costume.
You gotta love show biz.
All the Big Donors to the LA Civic Opera are sitting in the house along with the powers-that-be while the actors do the costume parade. To save money the costumes had been rented. Some members of the cast were none to happy about this.
Enter Nancy Walker wearing panty hose--and nothing else. She pointed to her...nether region, and looked pointedly out into the darkened house. "See this? Its old. Its real old."
Pausing for effect, she then pointed to the wings and finished, "But its not half as old as those costumes you've got back there for me to wear!"
She turned on her heel and exited the stage slowly.
PS - Somebody wrote a check and she got a newly made costume.
You gotta love show biz.
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