HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GINGER!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GINGER!#0

Posted: 7/16/03 at 10:51am

Must pay homage to the fabulous Miss Rogers. Today she would have been 92.

We miss you, Ginger!


*goes and sits in her corner, as she mourns her late idol*
Ginger Rogers

"You! You are the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber! And you, well, I just plain don't like you."
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin

Updated On: 7/16/03 at 10:51 AM

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re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GINGER!#1

Posted: 7/16/03 at 12:50pm

She was the very essence of a Hollywood movie star. Although she will always be remembered for her musicals with Fred Astaire, she won an Oscar for her dramatic role in KITTY FOYLE.

And since this is a Broadway site she followed CAROL CHANNING in the Broadway and eventually a touring production of HELLO DOLLY.









LINK: Tracy, you look beautiful behind bars!

TRACY: It must be the low-watt institutional lighting!

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Posted: 7/16/03 at 6:46pm

She bookended her career with Broadway, therefore, her homage here is definitely relative. :) She started out in Top Speed and then landed her role that really set her career in motion, Gershwin's Girl Crazy.


We love Ginger. I wish I had been alive to see her in Hello, Dolly. I have an autographed playbill from the show, that she signed for my great aunt. My auntie gave it to me as an opening night present when I landed the lead in my 8th grade musical. Ah, middle school theatre! LOL! Actually, we did Krazy Kamp (I don't know if anyone's ever heard of it... omg, the horror), but I played Kate who sings a rendition of "Broadway Baby" (no, not the one from Follies). One line was, "I'm gonna be another Channing or Merman." and the director let me change the line to "Channing or Rogers." HA! There's a whole monologue that leads into the song, and there's a line about being the next Carol or Ethel, but at the time, everyone who knew me called me Ginger, so it just seemed very... appropriate. LOL.

Ah, memories. I also have an autographed 45 of Ginger singing Hello, Dolly. Those are my favorites of my Ginger memorabilia from Hello, Dolly. I have so much memorabilia I don't know what to do with it. I'm a sad human being. I own over forty of her seventy-two movies she ever made. *shies off into her corner* I've been collecting since I was four! *defensively* It's not THAT weird!

"You! You are the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber! And you, well, I just plain don't like you."
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin

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Posted: 7/16/03 at 6:48pm

Even though I don't know anything about her.. Happy Birthday! lol
"Roxie Hart" was on TV about an hour ago.

"Life will be frozen peaches and cream. Baby, dream Your Dream" ~ SC

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Posted: 7/16/03 at 6:53pm

Roxie Hart is a fun movie. When Gwen was about to do the role in "Chicago" she told Ginger she was just disappointed she wasn't going to be able to tap dance on a metal staircase.

*clings to her favorite autobiography*
Ginger Rogers

"You! You are the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber! And you, well, I just plain don't like you."
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin

Updated On: 7/16/03 at 06:53 PM

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Posted: 7/16/03 at 7:06pm

Isn't the new musical Never Gonna Dance about her?

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Posted: 7/17/03 at 7:03pm

Nope, it's a stage version of one of hers and Fred's movie musicals, "Swing Time." It's a great movie. I suggest renting it if you've never seen it.

I can't wait for "Never Gonna Dance."

"You! You are the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber! And you, well, I just plain don't like you."
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin