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Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes | Ref. |
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1955 | Catch a Star! | performer | Broadway debut Tony Award nomination | [29] [30] |
1973 | Anything Goes | Reno Sweeney | [31] | |
1975 | Something's Afoot | [32] | ||
1979 | Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein | Gertrude Stein | Drama Desk Award | [33] [34] |
1984 | Dancing in the End Zone | Madeleine Bernard | [35] [36] | |
1986 | Romeo and Juliet | Nurse | [37] | |
1989 | Cinderella | Fairy Godmother | [38] | |
1990 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Falstaff | [39] | |
1992 | The Show-Off | Mrs. Fisher | [40] [41] | |
1993 | Mother Courage and Her Children | Mother Courage | [42] | |
1996 | Volpone | Volpone | [43] | |
1998 | Grace and Glorie | Grace | [44] | |
Electra | Chorus of Mycenae | [45] [46] | ||
2000 | Thoroughly Modern Millie | Mrs. Meers | Pre-Broadway production | [47] [48] |
2002 | Our Town | The Stage Manager | [49] |
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Events in 1927 in animation.
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