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Tammy Grimes has Passed

Posted: 10/31/16 at 5:54pm

Some very sad news- Tammy Grimes has passed away. Luckily we still have her performances preserved on cast recordings. I guess it's more appropriate than ever to listen to Home Sweet Heaven tonight.

https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/theater/tammy-grimes-died.amp.html?client=safari

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Updated On: 10/31/16 at 05:54 PM

Tammy Grimes

Posted: 10/31/16 at 5:58pm

Very sad indeed. Caught her performance in Orpheus Descending, her last Broadway credit.

Tammy Grimes

Posted: 10/31/16 at 6:17pm

Saw her do several "luncheon" readings at the Players Club. Still luminous. My thoughts are with her daughter Amanda Plummer.

Tammy Grimes

Posted: 10/31/16 at 6:19pm

I don't have any theatre history with her, but I'm a fan of how she brought Molly Grue to life in The Last Unicorn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHvWmJREROY

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Tammy Grimes

Posted: 10/31/16 at 6:43pm

Sigh; belly up to the bar, boys...

Tammy Grimes

Posted: 10/31/16 at 7:00pm

There IS a video of her singing "I Ain't Down Yet" from the Ed Sullivan Show...if only someone who has it on VHS will convert it to an MP4 so it can be uploaded.

Meanwhile, there's this:

Tammy Grimes

Posted: 10/31/16 at 7:04pm

Sad news, I've loved her for years.

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Tammy Grimes

Posted: 10/31/16 at 7:07pm

And there's this from Molly Brown:

Tammy Grimes

Posted: 10/31/16 at 7:18pm

And this oddity: Duke Ellington's "Sophisticated Lady," from a 1984 PBS tribute to Ellington:

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Tammy Grimes

Posted: 10/31/16 at 7:24pm

And this...

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Tammy Grimes

Posted: 10/31/16 at 7:25pm

RIP, you lyric baritone you. My grandparents had a magazine with her on the cover. It was a beautiful studio shot that I can't find on Google. It was one of those things that piqued my interest in theatre at a very early age.

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Tammy Grimes

Posted: 10/31/16 at 8:03pm

I saw her perform her cabaret act at the Metropolitan Room maybe five years ago or so. You could tell her body was somewhat weak, but when she started singing she came to life. She sang all her hits, including I Ain't Down Yet and Home Sweet Heaven.

Afterward she greeted each audience member as we walked out and she signed my High Spirits CD. She couldn't have been more gracious.

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Tammy Grimes

Posted: 10/31/16 at 8:04pm

Listening to Molly Brown cast album now. I know why they went with Debbie Reynolds for the movie...but Tammy would've slayed it in hindsight. I know, Monday morning quarterback... I get that Debbie was the much safer choice.

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Tammy Grimes

Posted: 10/31/16 at 8:26pm

I worked with Tammy Grimes on a production of MUSICAL JUBILEE in South Florida, immediately after the production closed on Broadway (mid-1970s).

She was rather eccentric in person, but in an utterly charming way. I found her a delight!

And though she wasn't "technically" a true singer, her renditions of "I've Told Every Little Star" and "They Wouldn't Believe Me" were so moving they are as clear in my mind today as they were on stage 40 years ago!

There was a thread yesterday about "star quality". Tammy had it, in spades! Nobody cared whether she had the biggest musical range--not even when she was performing with the likes of Larry Kert, Patrice Munsel and John Raitt.

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Tammy Grimes

Posted: 10/31/16 at 8:41pm

My heart just broke into a million pieces...she was one of a kind...she was special...original... she defied comparison....God bless her!

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Tammy Grimes

Posted: 10/31/16 at 9:30pm

I remember her guest appearance on an episode of "The Virginian" TV series in which she played a saloon performer. If I recall correctly, she sang "Hello, My Baby, Hello, My Honey" and a song whose title may have been "I'm in Love with the Man in the Moon." She may not have had a perfect vocal instrument for singing, but she really knew how to put over a song very pleasingly and with great charm. Is anyone that distinctive anymore? Unfortunately, I don't think so.

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Tammy Grimes

Posted: 10/31/16 at 9:57pm

I loved her captivating voice on the HIGH SPIRITS album I stumbled onto in the American Embassy library in Tel Aviv back in 1971-- a formative step in hooking me on Broadway musicals for life. And I loved her live in the diva role in 42ND STREET that brought her back to Broadway in 1980. She defined the term Broadway icon.

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Tammy Grimes

Posted: 11/1/16 at 7:10am

The first time I ever saw a show twice was because I was so taken by Tammy Grimes - High Spirits. To this day I still regularly listen to Home Sweet Heaven and You'd Better Love Me (also has one of my favorite overtures!).

RIP

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Tammy Grimes

Posted: 11/1/16 at 12:20pm

I just recently discovered her via the "High Spirits" cast album! She was marvelous. No one else had a voice quite like that -- more's the pity. R.I.P.

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Tammy Grimes

Posted: 11/1/16 at 6:49pm

One of Dick Cavett's best shows featured Noel Coward, the Lunt's and Brian Bedford and Tammy Grimes, then starring on Broadway in a revival of Private Lives.

I find it odd that the media was informed of her death by a nephew, rather than her daughter Amanda Plummer.

Updated On: 11/1/16 at 06:49 PM

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