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SIMON You mean The Gingerbread Lady...
...theatrical memory book: vain, vulnerable, self-pitying, playful, hung over, a deposed Richard II of the Great White Way who wins back his crown. Grizzard is the perfect foil, an edgy Broadway Bolingbroke with a rapier for a tongue. Unfortunately, Maureen Stapleton still seems to be playing The Gingerbread Lady. She is a jittery bundle of nerves rather than the tough stoic she ought to be, and her matronly appearance short-circuits what should be an electrically charged love interest between her and Grizzard. Nonetheless she is all theater, and-bless it-so is The Country Girl...
Andrea Burrell gets her grandmother to show how to make soap from lye and lard. U.G. McCoy tells how to skin and cook a coon. There are home remedies, snake lore, weather signs, quilt patterns and stitches, faith healing and mountain recipes: carrot pudding, a century-old recipe for gingerbread, even fried pumpkin and Spanish blossoms...
...early convert to the menswear fad was Actress Betsy von Furstenberg, now touring the provinces in The Gingerbread Lady, who bought a boy's outfit for herself last fall when she was shopping for her prep-school son. "She's an incredibly feminine woman," says Allen Murphy, an ad man and a longtime friend. "She usually looks best in a pouf of chiffon, but she really looks terrific in boys' clothes...
...only the audiences' dining habits, but the audiences-probably for the better. "It reminds me of London," says Carol Channing, star of Four on a Garden. "The audience is not overstuffed, overfed, and can enjoy the play more. People laugh better on empty stomachs." Maureen Stapleton (The Gingerbread Lady) looks beyond the closing curtain: "I love the 7:30 curtain. It gives me more time for parties afterwards...