Word: actress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American public, and not much reason even to expect commercial success. Ball was a comely redhead with a semisultry voice and knockout legs, but she was also nearly 40 and a veteran of almost two decades in the supporting ranks of show business. She had been a movie actress but hardly a superstar; she had enjoyed moderate success in radio but had only fleeting experience in the new medium of video. She refused to move from the West Coast to New York City, where nearly all shows then originated, and she insisted on co-starring her husband, an obscure bandleader...
...Lucy character began as a saxophonist who bleated, a chanteuse who croaked, a hoofer who fell down. Even in the final season, when the Lucy character met her look-alike, the actress Lucille Ball, the script concluded that the "real" Lucy was the star-struck onlooker, not the star. Yet, after Ball divorced Arnaz in 1960, the Lucy character also evolved into a capable single mother, then an independent and modestly successful career woman. Off- camera, Ball was happily remarried in 1961 to a courtly, protective ex- comic, Gary Morton, and took a keen maternal interest in the acting careers...
INTERVIEW: A feisty actress on her trade...
...princess sounds like a selfsatisfied prig, and Salm's portrayal reinforces that impression. When her assistant Lady Blanche (Linda Bielski) mocks Ida behind her back, the audience sympathizes. Lady Blanche, at least, keeps the audience awake by putting the orchestra to sleep with a song/philosophy lecture. Bielski, a professional actress, is easily the show's best female performer...
...cast is not all-Asian, does that mean that it cannot be adapted by an all-Asian cast? A crucial element to the "Chorus line" production, which I happen to be familiar with, is dance. Is Mr. Hsia aware that, in the movie version of "A Chorus Line" the actress who was cast to play the part of "T&A" had never had any dance training in her life? I am more concerned with the artisitic merit of the cast and I definitely take more offense to a non-dancer in a dance musical rather than an all-Asian cast...