OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed

[ACL2006]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#1

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:03pm

for some reason I can't post in the other thread, but the NY Times just released an official press release.
Elaine Stritch, Tart-Tongued Broadway Actress and Singer, Is Dead at 89

A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

[GlindatheGood22]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#2

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:03pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=virv-1o2KjE

I know you. I know you. I know you.

Updated On: 7/17/14 at 01:03 PM

[adamgreer]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#2

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:04pm

A truly one of a kind talent. I'm sad that I wasn't around to seeing her in her prime, but thrilled I got to see her onstage in Night Music and in concert twice. A true original. There will never be another Elaine Stritch.
Updated On: 7/17/14 at 01:04 PM

[Roscoe]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#3

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:05pm

RIP to a very great artist. I'll never forget her work in A DELICATE BALANCE or in her one-woman show. A marvel.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

Updated On: 7/17/14 at 01:05 PM

[Gorlois]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#4

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:06pm

I couldn't post in the other thread either.

May she rest in peace.

"Everybody rise..."

[disneybroadwayfan22]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#5

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:06pm

This was sudden, right?

So sad, either way. RIP Elaine!

[bekk99]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#6

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:08pm

I'm devastated. Was holding out hope to get to see this legend perform. Rest in peace, our forever Broadway Baby!

[devonian.t]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#7

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:08pm

Dim the lights for a WEEK!

[ljay889]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#8

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:08pm

She's been declining for a couple of years. This very subject is discussed in her documentary that was just released last month on DVD/online. What timing.
There will never be another like her.
Updated On: 7/17/14 at 01:08 PM

[dreaming]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#9

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:08pm

So lucky to have seen her live in several shows. RIP dear lady.

[haterobics]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#10

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:16pm

So glad I was able to catch her during her last run at the Carlyle... RIP

[PianoMann]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#11

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:16pm

She's truly an icon and trailblazer, and will very much be missed!

[Gothampc]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#12

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:17pm

The year was 19--. The ink was barely dry on my college diploma. I got my first paying theater job and was excited (and scared) that the show I was working on was starring Elaine Stritch. I knew her from the OBCR of Company.

On that first morning, the cast and crew were standing around waiting for rehearsals to begin. We all heard her long before we saw her. "You scared the sh-t out of me when you turned that corner." She was yelling at the company manager who had the misfortune of having picked her up.

She strode into the rehearsal hall and announced to nobody in particular, "I'm diabetic. In this paper bag is my insulin. It needs to be put in the closest refrigerator because I will need to inject myself at 12:00 noon."

She was exacting and tough, disciplined and focused. During rehearsals, she never gave anything short of a full performance. There was no "marking it" with Elaine Stritch. Every actor was given 100% of what Elaine Stritch was doing on that day.

From deep inside, she pulled out a performance that was interesting and layered. Funny, scary, and always nuanced.

She was a force to be reckoned with.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[Queen of the Night]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#13

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:19pm

Now I need to go home and listen to "the ladies who lunch". Her version of that is iconic. No one else could sing that like she did. She was truly one of a kind, in that special pantheon with people like Carol Channing and Ethel Merman. She will be missed but she left us souvenirs of her artistry and unique acerbic humor. So she will live on. "Everybody rise!"

[BroadwayNYC2]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#14

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:20pm

Just watched one of her episodes of 30 Rock last night. Weird how things work out.

A Delicate Balance is still one of my favorite theatrical experiences.

[Someone in a Tree2]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#15

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:22pm

Talk about your Broadway legends! How lucky we are to have her last few years of performances documented so well on 30 Rock, AT LIBERTY, and especially ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME. She so richly deserves her rest.

[sabrelady]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#16

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:24pm

I'll drink to that!

Hayell yea everybody rise!

[mamaleh]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#17

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:25pm

An original. So glad I saw her in NIGHT MUSIC. Here's Variety's report:

http://variety.com/2014/legit/news/elaine-stritch-dead-1201264068/

[HorseTears]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#18

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:28pm

Sad news. Glad I got to see on her on stage at Sondheim's 75th b'day celebration at the Hollywood Bowl. No one even comes close. Goth, may I ask what show you worked on with Elaine?

After actress and singer, my favorite role of Elaine's was talk show guest. I love this story she told on Ellen (and else where):

[Mike3]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#19

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:34pm

Eternal rest grant unto her O Lord
and let perpetual light shine upon her.

[GilmoreGirlO2]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#20

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:34pm

Thanks to all for the links and stories. What a career! Sad I never got to see her perform. RIP, Ms. Stritch.

[ljay889]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#21

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:35pm

Elaine is the second USA trend on Twitter, wow.

[Brian07663NJ]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#22

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:37pm

A true legend.
So lucky to have seen her in Show Boat and At Liberty.

[Borstalboy]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#23

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:37pm

Sad news, but what a life! Incredible how she kind of broke through to the mainstream in her golden years. R.I.P.

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

[emo_geek]

OFFICIAL: Elaine Stritch has passed#24

Posted: 7/17/14 at 1:40pm

HorseTears- I was at the rehearsals (and at the actual performance) for the 75th at the bowl. Elaine was one of the last people to rehearse that day. The Philharmonic had a STRICT contract to not rehearse past a certain time. Of course everyone was running late. Elaine started rehearsing Broadway Baby with the Philharmonic as they started packing up (literally packing their bags). She didn't care. She continued to sing until there were only a few instruments left. I'll never forget that.

"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999