Isabelle Stevenson died!!!!

[thebigkrakowski]

Posted: 12/29/03 at 11:44am

So sad.

http://www.broadway.com/template_1.asp?CI=33144&CT=38

(By the way, I was furious at Riedel earlier this year when he wrote a dig about her.)

[Craig]

Posted: 12/29/03 at 11:46am

This was upsetting to read. I was her escort this year for the TONY's and she was the sweetest woman. A terrible loss...

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 12/29/03 at 11:48am

WOW!


That was a bit of a double take to read..... very sad indeed.

[Phantom2]

Posted: 12/29/03 at 11:50am

My deepest sympathy. What a remarkable woman.

[dotmarie]

Posted: 12/29/03 at 11:53am

How sad! Unexpected, too. She'll be missed.

[BrdwyThtr]

Posted: 12/29/03 at 12:02pm

Wow. How awful.

[BillyLawlor]

Posted: 12/29/03 at 12:37pm

Oh Gosh.
She was indeed an amazing woman. A lot of things in the theater wouldn't have happened if it weren't for her. God Bless Her.

[rlbgbc]

Posted: 12/29/03 at 1:02pm

I can hear the offices of the Theatre Wing now:

"...and she's not only really dead, she's really most sincerely dead."

Sorry, that was crass.

[LChaifetz]

Posted: 12/29/03 at 1:03pm

Growing up, Isabelle Stevenson meant "The Broadway Theatre" to me. I can't imagine a Tony Awards Show without her speaking at some point during the telecast. Her work in acquainting younger audiences with the wonder of live theater was most noteworthy. In her way, she was legendary. Also, as for Michael Reidel's comment, his methods of working are beneath contempt.

[Corine2]

Posted: 12/29/03 at 1:15pm

I am very upset about the news.
It is Isabelle who I grew up watching on the Wing at a very early age. One day I was waiting for my bus to go to school and she was there. I told her how much I adored the theater and she gave me a pep talk and invited me to a taping. I was SO EXCITED.
She told me to go after my dreams. I am very sad to hear of her death.
She was a wonderful person and inspired my love for the theater.
God bless her.
(two years ago I met her at the Drama Desk awards and she remembered our talk at the bus stop and inviting me to a taping.
She made a huge impact on me and for that I will always be grateful.) Updated On: 12/29/03 at 01:15 PM

[Amneris]

Posted: 12/29/03 at 1:58pm

this is awful... it's been a SAD loss for both theater and film this year... and they say people go in 3's... alan,isabelle ..im a little scared to see who is next. We are losing some great ones. Updated On: 12/29/03 at 01:58 PM

[sheekala]

Posted: 12/29/03 at 2:02pm

While there is a million cheap lines you could use about her(those that worked under her know of what I speak), but I have to say she was always nice to me, cheers and farewell to a true friend of the theater.

[Al Dente]

Posted: 12/29/03 at 3:49pm

A loss. She was a nice lady. My regrets.

[MusicMan]

Posted: 12/29/03 at 8:50pm

"Comes for us all, milord. Even for kings he comes."

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 12/29/03 at 8:54pm

She looks like such a lovely lady. So sweet and caring. Was she the one who talked at the Tonys and someone picked her up? What an awful loss...very sad.

[Corine2]

Posted: 12/29/03 at 9:08pm

Yes. She was the First Lady of Theater.
A very great loss.

[MyNameInLights]

Posted: 12/29/03 at 9:18pm

This is both upsetting and heartbreaking. This truly amazing woman will be missed...

[Auggie27]

Posted: 12/29/03 at 9:38pm

It seems a small thing, but Stevenson had one of those plummy, rarified accents -- like Betty Comden, also Kitty Carlisle, any number of others -- that knew no geography, just always sounded like ... "the theater." Those vowels, that timber, that understated elegance -- it spoke of a classier world and worldview. One in which art is all. That sensibility, alas, really has NOT been passed down.

We shall all miss her.

Updated On: 12/29/03 at 09:38 PM