Ken Richards 8/26/1928 - 1/8/2009 - RIP

[do_re_milla]

Ken Richards 8/26/1928 - 1/8/2009 - RIP#1

Posted: 1/8/09 at 10:55pm

Career highlights - Red Head [replacement](Gwen Verdon, Richard Kiley, Margery Beddow, Fran Koll); Unsinkable Molly Brown [replacement on Bway; tour](Tammy Grimes, Karen Morrow); Cafe Crown (Theodore Bikel); I'm Solomon (aka both Solomon, Solomon & In Someone Else's Shoes. BTW, I have the shoes!)(Dick Shawn); Funny Girl [replacement](Mimi Hines); On A Clear Day (John Cullum, Barbara Harris, Louis Jourdan [replaced o/o/t]; Brigadoon [at City Center](Karen Morrow, Evan Evans); opening of State Theatre in Richard Rodgers' productions of The King & I (Rise Stevens, Darren McGavin, Dixie Carter [u/s Tuptim]) & Merry Widow (Pat Munsel); Summer Stock in Kansas City included: Wizard of Oz (con'd by Jack Lee with Pat Suzuki as Dorothy!); Carousel (Jan Clayton, Art Lund); Kiss Me Kate (Anne Jeffreys, Bill Hayes); Tours included Bway Tours of Red Head & Unsinkable Molly Brown, Love Match (Hal Linden, Pat Routledge); Guber Ford & Gross Group: Funny Girl (Carol Lawrence, Sylvia Sims); at orig Paper Mill: Most Happy Fella (Art Lund); Fanny [little boy played by Kit Culkin, Macaulay's pop]; Annie Get Your Gun; perennial performer at Radio City Music Hall; tv's & film's Quiz Show; Raging Bull; David Letterman; Loving; All My Children; Kate & Allie

Goodbye, dear friend.

Milla

[somethingwicked]

re: Ken Richards 8/26/1928 - 1/8/2009 - RIP#2

Posted: 1/9/09 at 2:28am

May he rest in peace.

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

[broadwayfan7]

re: Ken Richards 8/26/1928 - 1/8/2009 - RIP#2

Posted: 1/9/09 at 11:31am

RIP Ken.

"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."