Helen Gallagher
Helen Gallagher
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#0Helen Gallagher
Posted: 8/20/04 at 10:42pmI am in a class taught by her starting soon. I know that she has won a Tony. Does anyone have any Broadway info about her?
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#1re: Helen Gallagher
Posted: 8/20/04 at 10:43pmShe's fabulous and never became the star she deserved to be.
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#2re: Helen Gallagher
Posted: 8/20/04 at 10:49pmI'm actually potentially taking that class too. I'm pretty excited about it!
#3re: Helen Gallagher
Posted: 8/20/04 at 10:50pmWhat/Where is this class
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#4re: Helen Gallagher
Posted: 8/21/04 at 12:40amGood luck. Helen is a great teacher.
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#5re: Helen Gallagher
Posted: 8/21/04 at 1:09am
Helen Gallagher actually won TWO Tonys:
Best actress in a musical for "No, No, Nanette." - 1971
Best supporting actress in a musical for "Pal Joey." - 1952
Of course most people know her for her role as Maeve Colleary Ryan, on "Ryan's Hope", which she played for about 14 years.
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#7re: Helen Gallagher
Posted: 8/21/04 at 5:24amTruly one of the first and all-time great triple threats. A great singer, a great dancer (she took over the role of Charity from Gwen Verdon) and a great actress. She was one of THE great stars for a half of a century. Listen to her every word.
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#8re: Helen Gallagher
Posted: 8/21/04 at 3:59pm
I studied with Helen for many years. She is a magnificent teacher, but even more thrilling as a performer.
Her Tony winning performance in the revival of No, No, Nannette was one of those performances that theaterlovers live for.
She is a delightful and funny lady.........Of course a number of years ago she started making "very serious money" as she put it, on Ryan's Hope, the soap opera. I believe she won 3 emmy awards for her very long run in that soap ( I believe it was over a dozen years)............Interestingly,,,,,,,,,
after the Tony win (she was simply glorious in this show) for her in the Broadway revival of No, No, Nannette in the 1970s (it opened around the same time as COMPANY) she continued in various tours and productions of Nannette for the following EIGHT years.............
She said in one of the productions towards the end of her association with the revival, they were down to doing the show with just a piano and a drum. It had a glorious full orchestra with twin Steinways and a beamingly, smiling conductor on Broadway.
Also, I believe just about 3 years ago Helen did a new revival of Nannette where she played the part of Sue (this is the "older" woman in the piece) and had the "star tap" to I WANT TO BE HAPPY that Ruby Keeler did as Sue in the 1970s revival.
When Martha Raye joined the revival cast on Broadway, replacing Tony winning Patsy Kelly as Pauline the maid, Martha Raye's charachter was expanded a bit and she was given, of course, top billing AND the star tap of I WANT TO BE HAPPY. (Ruby Keeler had left the production at this time)
In the few years that followed, Ms. Keeler rejoined the Nannette troop a couplea times, got her top billing and her star tap to I WANT TO BE HAPPY. However, when Ruby Keeler was not in the show, or for that matter when anyone else was playing Sue after Nannette left Broadway, Helen Gallagher's charachter of Lucille always performed the I WANT TO BE HAPPY "star tap."
This is a great OCR, with one of the most exciting overtures ever and Ms. Gallagher's divine rendition of "The Where Have My Hubby Gone Blues."
You will be thrilled taking class with her. Goodluck and enjoy!
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#9re: Helen Gallagher
Posted: 8/21/04 at 4:50pmfreaky.
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#10re: Helen Gallagher
Posted: 8/21/04 at 4:55pmShe was also quite good when she graduated to the role of Sue in the Paper Mill revival of Nanette just six or seven years ago.
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#11re: Helen Gallagher
Posted: 8/21/04 at 6:38pm
Helen Gallagher stars in HAZEL FLAGG (1953), the Jule Styne score recently released on CD, for those who may not be aware.
HAZEL is one of the many musicals based on a film. In this case the film is a classic comedty NOTHING SACRED (1937) which starred Carole Lombard (Gable's wife) and Frederick March and directed by William Wellman (of FRANKENSTEIN and GODS AND MONSTERS fame). Oscar Levant wrote the Gershwin-esque score.
A second film version was called LIVING IT UP (1954) and starred none other than Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis (Jerry played the sex-changed Hazel). In keeping with the Hollywood norm of film versions of musicals that don't make sense, this was the film version of HAZEL FLAGG. Sheree North made her Broadway debut in HAZEL and was awarded the 1953 Theatre World Award. She then made her screen debut in the same role she created on Broadway in this film. Dean and Jerry even sang some of the tunes from the score.
Unfortunately, Helen was nowhere in the film.
Updated On: 8/21/04 at 06:38 PM
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Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/03
#12re: Helen Gallagher
Posted: 8/21/04 at 6:52pmWow thanks for the info everyone:) I am really excited about the class. It is so popular that I had to sing two songs for her to get in.
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