#1
Posted: 3/28/10 at 5:23pm
#3
Posted: 3/28/10 at 5:27pm
I'd forgotten she was still alive. RIP, Dainty June.
#4
Posted: 3/28/10 at 5:35pm
Very sad. I will listen to delicious version of "Count Your Blessings" today.
#5
Posted: 3/28/10 at 5:35pm
I am so saddened by this news. She was a wonderful actress. I feel so fortunate to have seen her on the stage.
She will be missed.
She will be missed.
#8
Posted: 3/28/10 at 6:00pm
Rest in Peace.
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#9
Posted: 3/28/10 at 6:46pm
I saw her in the 2nd tour of SWEENEY TODD. She would have been 68 then, and giving a performance of someone a good 25 years younger.
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Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
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#12
Posted: 3/28/10 at 11:28pm
A long and fascinating life. RIP, June.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#13
Posted: 3/28/10 at 11:33pm
Peace to her and hers - and all those affected.
#14
Posted: 3/29/10 at 12:00am
Rest In Peace June.
2008: Feb. 18- Rent, Feb. 19- Curtains, April 18- Xanadu, April 22- Wicked, April 26- Legally Blonde, May 31- Wicked, June 13- The Little Mermaid, June 28- Wicked and Young Frankenstein, July 2- The Little Mermaid, July 6- A Chorus Line and Legally Blonde, August 16- Xanadu, September 13- Legally Blonde and 13, September 28- Xanadu and Spring Awakening, Oct. 12-GYPSY and [title of show], Oct. 19- Hairspray & Legally Blonde, Nov. 9- Wicked and 13, Dec. 14-13, Dec. 26- Billy Elliot, 2009: Jan 1- Shrek, Jan 2- 13 and Wicked, Jan 4- 13, Feb 17- In The Heights, Feb 19- Billy Elliot, Feb 22- Sweeney Todd (tour), March 28- Mary Poppins, April 4- Mamma Mia!, April 15- Jersey Boys (on tour), April 25- next to normal & 9 to 5
May 1- Billy Elliot, May 3- Spelling Bee (tour), May 8- Chicago, May 21- Wicked, June 6- Everyday Rapture, June 23- The Wiz, June 25- Hair July 15- Shrek, August 9- Wicked, September 7- Rock of Ages, October 11- Next To Normal, October 23- The Marvelous Wonderettes, November 7- Ragtime November 29- Dreamgirls, December 25- Billy Elliot, December 30- Finian's Rainbow, 2010: January 9- Bye Bye Birdie, January 16- Memphis February 17- The Phantom of The Opera, February 18- God of Carnage, March 7- Billy Elliot, March 31- American Idiot
#15
Posted: 3/29/10 at 12:00am
Rest in peace June. She wrote two of the most fascinating show business books that I have ever read.
#16
Posted: 3/29/10 at 1:35am
Three fascinating women, whose lives are now immortally entangled.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451
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#17
Posted: 3/29/10 at 11:38am
She also wrote a damned good play, MARATHON '33, about her experience as a marathon dancer. The Actor's Studio produced it in the early 1960's with Julie Harris (who was in her late 30's)playing the 16 year old June.
#18
Posted: 3/29/10 at 9:33pm
Coincidence/Karmic energy/Fate:
Yesterday was the day I cast a production of "Gypsy" I'm directing this summer. Dainty June ended up being the most problematic role to cast, with drop-outs/availability issues coming into play.
I actually heard this news from the actress who called to accept the role...She was doing a little research beforehand, and decided to take it "in memoriam" (said jokingly, of course).
This is the first large-scale production I'm helming...something tells me we'll have a little help along the way. And a real good time, yessir.
RIP June...Hope to do you proud (despite all the legitimate qualms you did have with the show)!
Yesterday was the day I cast a production of "Gypsy" I'm directing this summer. Dainty June ended up being the most problematic role to cast, with drop-outs/availability issues coming into play.
I actually heard this news from the actress who called to accept the role...She was doing a little research beforehand, and decided to take it "in memoriam" (said jokingly, of course).
This is the first large-scale production I'm helming...something tells me we'll have a little help along the way. And a real good time, yessir.
RIP June...Hope to do you proud (despite all the legitimate qualms you did have with the show)!
"If there's any answer maybe love can end the madness,
Maybe not, oh but we can only try..."
#19
Posted: 3/30/10 at 11:24am
Because June Havoc had issues with the libretto of GYPSY during tryouts out of town, GYPSY was billed as "A Musical Fable" in Philadelphia; co-producer David Merrick reasoned, as a lawyer, that if the show was seen to be a made up fable, then Havoc could not sue. In the Philadelphia Playbill, it was Baby Claire, not Baby June. Finally, Havoc was placated and from then on the advertising and lobby card read: GYPSY, a new musical, and it was Baby June in New York, not Baby Claire.
"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"
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