Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
ElephantLoveMedley
Broadway Star Joined: 10/14/21
#1Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Posted: 10/11/22 at 3:24pm
Profoundly sad news.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Dame-Angela-Lansbury-Passes-Away-at-96-20221011
#2Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Posted: 10/11/22 at 3:25pm
What a life, what a career, what a legend.
May she rest in peace.
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#3Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Posted: 10/11/22 at 3:26pm
NOOOOOOO!!!!!
The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes. -Harold Prince
GingerSnaps2
Chorus Member Joined: 9/11/18
#4Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Posted: 10/11/22 at 3:30pm
What joy she brought to so many. I am so grateful for the times I was lucky enough to see her. May she Rest In Peace.
KevinKlawitter
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/20
#5Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Posted: 10/11/22 at 3:31pm
We were a Bedknobs and Broomsticks house instead of a Mary Poppins house, so Dame Angela has always held a special place in my heart.
May she rest in peace.
hearthemsing22
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/20
#7Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Posted: 10/11/22 at 3:34pm
I am truly heartbroken. Gosh. Not many deaths get me but--what a legend. So so sad about this
JasonC3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/21
#8Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Posted: 10/11/22 at 3:35pm
Saw her twice on Broadway and have watched the CD of her Mrs, Lovett more times than even a theatre-loving gay should.
In her 96 years she gave so many memorable performances and exuded a grace and humility some of today's celebrities would be wise to emulate.
#9Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Posted: 10/11/22 at 3:36pm
This is heartbreaking! So glad I got to see her on stage in my lifetime. May she rest in peace, and what a stamp to have left in the world.
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Chase Miller
Understudy Joined: 9/12/22
#10Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Posted: 10/11/22 at 3:38pm
What an amazing person. Rest in peace.
BETTY22
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/29/13
#12Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Posted: 10/11/22 at 3:45pm
It is so sad. I'm so glad I got to see her a good number of times.
I remember seeing her in BLITHE SPIRIT in 2015 at the Ahmanson in Los Angeles. The next day, at work, I was trying to show colleagues the crazy dance moves she does in the show...and I couldn't make it through two seconds without grabbing onto my desk to keep from falling over! She was 89 and had decades on me!
Her daughter, Deidre, used to own ENZO & ANGELA, a really great Italian restaurant in a strip mall on Wilshire Blvd. I used to eat there a lot as it was across the street from where I worked. On several occasions I saw Angela sitting alone in a corner having lunch. I never bothered her, but it was great to see her there!
pethian
Leading Actor Joined: 5/23/22
MadsonMelo
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/24/14
#14Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Posted: 10/11/22 at 3:47pm
The greatest and the most legendary musical theatre actress of all time, that hurts.
Legend is an understatement, rest in peace!
Lola Getz2
Stand-by Joined: 7/17/22
#15Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Posted: 10/11/22 at 3:54pm
So sad, but what a life. Her performance in Sweeny is one for the ages; probably the most brilliant performance I have ever seen. We gotta find out whodunit! Rest in peace.
#16Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Posted: 10/11/22 at 3:55pm
Absolute legend. Such a sweet lady.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#17Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Posted: 10/11/22 at 3:57pm
A life privilege to have seen her in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC and DRIVING MISS DAISY, plus all her recordings and films. A true legend. What a life. What a career! It makes SWEENEY TODD and DEAR WORLD next year even more import and special. Please do her justice!!
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
RunnyBabbit
Stand-by Joined: 2/3/20
#18Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Posted: 10/11/22 at 3:58pm
Angela’s only done 4 shows on Broadway in my lifetime, but I feel so thankful to have been able to see all of them. I even skipped my college graduation to see one. She was incredibly kind and wonderful to everyone when she came out after the show to sign.
I also feel very grateful to have seen the one-night production of Earnest that she did for Roundabout a few years ago. It was an amazing night and she was spectacular. I’ll never forget her walking off stage and taking a moment to raise her cane up over her head - of course to thunderous applause - right before she left the stage.
A legend who will truly be missed.
#19Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Posted: 10/11/22 at 3:58pm
Just five days before her 97th birthday - how sad.
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
babyjunegem
Understudy Joined: 12/1/21
#21Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Posted: 10/11/22 at 4:01pm
This hurts. Angela is obviously a queen, but her work brought me so much joy in the last year while I took care of a dying parent. A life well-lived. Rest In Peace.
#22Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Posted: 10/11/22 at 4:02pm
I often listen to the opening night audio of “A Little Priest”, because her line delivery of “Good you got it” never fails to crack me up. RIP in the most peace to the mayoress.
jo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#23Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Posted: 10/11/22 at 4:09pm
Rest in peace, dear Angela!
I saw you perform on stage only once...but also seen your work in other mediums.
Thanks for the memories!
#24Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Posted: 10/11/22 at 4:15pm
I remember back in the late 80s / early 90s when ALW first talked about his musical 'Sunset Boulevard', he said he was creating it for Lansbury to star in the West End production. Then he said he wanted Shirley MacLaine to open the Broadway production. A lot of theater press picked up on it. Neither actress was interested (Lansbury was still starring in 'Murder, She Wrote' which finally ended in 1996).
I've always wondered what it would have been like if Lansbury or MacLaine said yes - it really would've been a different musical than we got with Lupone and Close.
jo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#25Angela Lansbury Has Passed Away
Posted: 10/11/22 at 4:21pm
Nice tribute and acknowledgement of her status as true Broadway royalty!
https://twitter.com/hugh_ig/status/1579927410174484481?s=20&t=fqJ4vZTyDM753ho9RNmVDw
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