I miss Barbara Harris...

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I miss Barbara Harris...

Posted: 1/18/07 at 5:29pm

With THE APPLE TREE revival, I find myself thinking about her and what a great talent she is. I wish she would return to performing.

Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart; and you'll never walk alone.

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Posted: 1/18/07 at 5:36pm

Where is she now?

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Posted: 1/18/07 at 5:44pm

So do I

A shame she did not do many more shows

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Posted: 1/18/07 at 5:47pm

Last I heard she was retired in AZ.

Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart; and you'll never walk alone.

She's fantastic in the cast recordings of The Apple Tree and On A Clear Day You Can See Forever. Her "What Makes Me Love Him" is incredibly touching and the sequence she performed at the Tonys from The Apple Tree is absolutely hilarous!

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Posted: 1/18/07 at 7:09pm

I also miss her. I think she's utterly delightful in Nashville.

According to imdb.com, she's semi-retired, or was the last time I looked, but she teaches acting.

She developed vocal nodules during Apple Tree, and had give up performing in musicals, which is why she went to Hollywood.

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Posted: 1/18/07 at 7:50pm

Thank you Piercemn. I wondered why she stopped singing so abruptly.

Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart; and you'll never walk alone.

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Posted: 1/18/07 at 8:14pm

i miss her too!
i had a crush on her all thru childhood...& to tell the truth, i still do!!!
she has such gorgeous eyes!!!
no one else has those bambi eyes...& knows how to use 'em!!!

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Posted: 1/18/07 at 8:15pm

I actually saw her in The Apple Tree

She was amazing, Sorry I did not see her in on A Clear Day

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Posted: 1/18/07 at 8:38pm

I read somewhere (I believe it was on this board or imdb.com, can't remember) that she also retired because while she loved the rehearsal process of a musical/play in which you're constantly changing and bringing in new material, she became bored performing the same exact role in the same way singing the same songs 8 times a week.

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Posted: 1/18/07 at 9:13pm

Did she even do any movies after "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"?

Last thing I remember hearing regarding her was that she was supposed to have been in the Bette Midler version of "Gypsy" (I think Andrea Martin got her part) and she was supposed to have been in the Chicago production of "Once Upon a Kiss", both back in the '90's.

Sheldon Harnick sites the song "I've Got What You Want" as the song in which she used to scream that led to her throat problems.

In my mind, I can imagine her as an incredible Sally in "Follies"...

And no other person need sing "What Did I Have" from "On A Clear Day..." because no one else can do what she did with it. Barbra included.

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Posted: 1/18/07 at 9:26pm

Sally in FOLLIES... inspired!

I heard that she was ...well... eccentric. Didn't she do something odd when she accepted her Tony?

Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart; and you'll never walk alone.

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Posted: 1/18/07 at 9:27pm

She got upset when someone awards ceremony crasher came onstage and gave her a kiss while she was accepting it.

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Posted: 1/18/07 at 9:31pm

I wish someone would post it on THAT website.

Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart; and you'll never walk alone.

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Posted: 1/18/07 at 10:03pm

i found this blogpost lovin her up.....

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Posted: 1/18/07 at 10:39pm

Thank you! Thank You! Thank you!

Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart; and you'll never walk alone.

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Posted: 1/18/07 at 10:49pm

I love Barbara Harris.

there is alot more of her work that I have yet to see...

What a talented lady, pretty too.

Updated On: 1/18/07 at 10:49 PM

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Posted: 1/19/07 at 12:20am

Alan Alda says some terrific things about her talent in his autobiography "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed"

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Posted: 1/19/07 at 3:00am

She said something about hating that the creative process stopped on opening night, and that's why she didn't like performing.

Where does she teach acting?

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Posted: 1/19/07 at 10:51am

Two titles:

FREAKY FRIDAY and THE NORTH AVENUE IRREGULARS

These movies made her seem like a comic goddess; funny, shapely, and slightly off-center, she steals every scene she gets near. I only wish I could have seen her live.

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Posted: 1/19/07 at 11:01am

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Posted: 1/19/07 at 12:17pm

I first saw Barbara Harris in the movie "A Thousand Clowns" and fell in love with her. I was going to the Columbia Graduate School of Social Work at the time and loved her take on social workers. She was so funny and touching at the same time, which she was in all of her roles.

I was fortunate to have seen her in THE APPLE TREE and ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER. Her boredom at doing 8 shows a week never showed through. She always gave her all.

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Posted: 1/19/07 at 10:19pm

I miss her too. So talented. Her Muriel in the film version of PLAZA SUITE is hilarious.

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Posted: 1/20/07 at 2:57am

I heard that she is crazy and working at a department store.
or something like that.

she needs to come back to broadway!

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