Alexis Smith

On stage 5 productions, 7 years

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Worked with more than once10 names

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In the literature8 passages

• Original cast (1971) : Alexis Smith, Gene Nelson, John McMartin, Yvonne DeCarlo, Dorothy Collins, Mary McCarty, Ethel Shutta, Victoria Mallory, Fifi D’Orsay, Harold Hastings (conductor). Capitol SO 761.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Alexis Smith was quietly working away. No one was aware of it, but she was working harder and pushing herself further than anyone else. To all appearances, she remained cool and relaxed. And the more she relaxed, the funnier she became. She chanced to walk by a dancer, one of whose roles was a waiter with whom she is caught necking late i…ebooks/Chapin, Ted/Everything Was Possible_ The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books) - Ted Chapin.txt
• Alexis Smith-first attempt at a costume and wig for “Uptown, Downtown.” Rita Hayworth.ebooks/Chapin, Ted/Everything Was Possible_ The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books) - Ted Chapin.txt
• Alexis Smith, and relegated this shot to the lead photograph of the story inside.ebooks/Chapin, Ted/Everything Was Possible_ The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books) - Ted Chapin.txt
• Like Willson, James Goldman was writing an original. He gave life to two showgirl roommates: Phyllis Rogers (Alexis Smith) and Sally Durant. They’d met and worked together in 1941 in The Weismann Follies, then respectively married Benjamin Stone and Buddy Plummer, two college chums who’d been their Stage Door Johnnies. How much everyone h…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• FLORENCE KLOTZ: Your eyes will always go to red, which is why there is a lady in red in all of my shows. In Follies it was Alexis Smith. In The Little Foxes it was Elizabeth Taylor. In Showboat Magnolia is dressed in a beaded, very vivid red gown when her father sees her in Chicago after so many years. Glynis Johns told me she couldn’t we…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt

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