Isabelle Stevenson died!!!!

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

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My deepest sympathy. What a remarkable woman.

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Wow. How awful.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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