Posted: 7/5/18 at 10:43pm
What did she do to get the bad reputation she seems to have among some people?
This Dolly tour is really a comeback. It has been twenty years since she has had a role on Broadway.
Posted: 7/5/18 at 10:44pm
A lot of people - even Tony award winners like Betty, have long breaks in between Broadway shows. The bulk of her career has always been performing live in concert.
Posted: 7/5/18 at 10:46pm
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Posted: 7/6/18 at 1:21am
Very very difficult. This, I, Know. To. Be. True.
Posted: 7/6/18 at 2:12am
Posted: 7/6/18 at 4:06am
What changed?
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Posted: 7/6/18 at 8:01am
She has performed in NYC during that time though as I remember seeing her in The Old Friends, a Horton Foote play a few years back.
Posted: 7/6/18 at 9:36am
Oops wrong thread.
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Posted: 7/6/18 at 9:57am
She may be absent from Broadway but Betty is always working. She currently stars as Gran'ma on the AMC series PREACHER and fills in her hiatus gap with concerts and other projects. I'm sure appetizing elements were factored in her offer to lead the HELLO, DOLLY! Revival Tour, which is why she obviously took it. She can afford to pick and choose her projects at this stage in her career. I'm sure she's offered quite a bit of Broadway projects she chooses to pass on. The HELLO, DOLLY! Revival Tour could just be her wanting to travel the country with a nice extended stay in each city. Her concerts are one-nighters so she's in and out in hours never seeing the city she's performing in.
Posted: 7/6/18 at 10:06am
Betty lives on a working ranch in Texas, and I know for a fact has turned down a handful of Broadway/long-term offers in the past, because of the financial/practical implications that would be required for her to be away from her ranch for an extended period of time. Over the years, she has preferred concerts and short runs, although I guess for the right project (like the HELLO DOLLY tour) she's willing to commit to a longer run.
Posted: 7/6/18 at 10:12am
Oops
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Posted: 7/6/18 at 10:15am
Leadingplayer said: "What did she do to get the bad reputation she seems to have among some people?
This Dolly tour is really a comeback. It has been twenty years since she has had a role on Broadway."
Balderdash !!!
Posted: 7/6/18 at 10:39am
I quite enjoyed her performance in M. Night Shyamalan's "Split", where she
gets squeezed to death by James McAvoy with superhuman strength.
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Posted: 7/6/18 at 11:16am
I haven't seen Betty Buckley in anything but I do hope to see her in the new Hello Dolly tour
Posted: 7/6/18 at 11:16am
I haven't seen Betty Buckley in anything but I do hope to see her in the new Hello Dolly tour
Posted: 7/6/18 at 1:07pm
I vaguely remember there was some big controversy years ago with her and a regional theatre somewhere. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
Posted: 7/6/18 at 2:06pm
Tag said: "I vaguely remember there was some big controversy years ago with her and a regional theatre somewhere. Anyone know what I'm talking about?"
I think that may have been the DCTC. She pulled out of a show.
Posted: 7/6/18 at 5:17pm
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Posted: 7/6/18 at 6:17pm
This old thread talks about her being the original Witch in Into The Woods. An interesting read.
Posted: 7/6/18 at 6:26pm
The last time I saw her on stage was White's Lies at New World Stages in 2010.
Posted: 7/6/18 at 6:42pm
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Posted: 7/6/18 at 6:50pm
A few years ago she was in "Grey Gardens" here in LA. She was wonderful!
Posted: 7/6/18 at 8:26pm
I got to see her and Tovah Feldshuh in a production of Arsenic and Old Lace at the Dallas Theater Center. Directed by Scott Schwartz. Costumes by William Harvey Long. It was a fun show.
