Lost Tony winners- Page 2

[fanof many]

Posted: 6/16/10 at 3:50pm

All of this info is so intersting!
WOSQ - and so interesting that you worked backstage at "Deathtrap"- were you ever there when the late actress Olive Deering would come and visit??

[WOSQ]

Posted: 6/16/10 at 4:09pm

God no, but I had experiences with Olive Deering. Practically everybody did because she was a fixture at the theatre bars on 45th and 46th Streets. This was back in my drinking-until-the-bars-close-at-four phase.

I was working with some managers who wanted to produce some Tennessee Williams one-acts. She claimed to have a letter from Williams giving her the rights to produce the bill. She couldn't produce a five spot at this point, but she wouldn't let any of see the damn letter. So we dropped the project. This was about 1974.

She weighed, what, 80 pounds? Tiny woman. You'd be tiny too on a diet of vodka gimlets. I haven't thought of Olive Deering in years.

In one of Jean Kerr's books she writes of "How Not To Produce A Play". Wrote Mrs. Walter Kerr, "Don't hire known alcoholics. The unknown ones will give you trouble enough." Wise words.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 6/16/10 at 7:48pm

Rae Allen died (& not from being in Dude)

Linda Hopkins is also dead.

I think Capers has died as well.

[laura is broadway]

Posted: 6/17/10 at 12:54am

I took a class at UCLA that Sammy Williams (A Chorus Line) helped teach.. At the time he was in a show being performed in Los Angeles.. Updated On: 6/17/10 at 12:54 AM

[fanof many]

Posted: 6/17/10 at 11:43am

Both Linda Hopkins and Rae Allen are still among the living!!