Marian Seldes, a multiple Tony Award nominee and former world record holder for consecutive Broadway performances, who starred in plays ranging from whodunits to the work of Tennessee Williams, Samuel Beckett and, especially, Edward Albee, who also found time to play Mr. Big's mother died Tuesday at her home in New York. She was 88.
Ah, RIP
ReplyDeleteOne of the great frustrations of stage work....when you're gone, so is the work. I still like the immediacy of theater, but it's longevity can't compare to recorded media.
ReplyDeleteSo... No blinds today?
ReplyDelete@Crash Diego The blinds will probably start up next. :-)
DeleteActually, today & yesterday is reminiscent of OG CDaN. Blinds & quick stories intermingled. I've missed that format. Hope this continues.
When did we see Big's mother?
ReplyDeleteOh. Absolutely loved this woman and her work. She was a treasure. RIP Marian. You will definitely be missed.
ReplyDeleteThe Grand Dame of the stage. You're up on the biggest one so far. Break a leg.
ReplyDelete@Kat--the episode where Carrie goes to Big's church
ReplyDeleteI remember her from Mona Lisa Smile
Thanks Murphy. I imdbd her and I remember her from an episode of Frasier :)
ReplyDeleteAwww. I saw her twice in plays. Once, on Broadway in Deathtrap and years later in San Francisco in Three Tall Women. RIP.
ReplyDeleteI loved the way she spoke. She was old New York to me.
ReplyDeleteI loved her. :(
ReplyDeleteJust watched her episode of "Wings" yesterday too, coincidentally ("Death Becomes Him"). She was great at playing the socialite Eleanor Kingsbury. Reading her wiki, it reads that her mother was a socialite. She seemed like a great lady. It also read that she died in her Manhattan apartment after a lengthy illness. I hope she didn't suffer. RIP.
ReplyDeleteAlso was Garson Kanin's wife. They were quite the stage A list couple.
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