Alison Fraser

On stage 4 productions, 23 years

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Worked with more than once1 names

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In the literature8 passages

• Cast: John Babcock, Daisy Eagan, Alison Fraser, Rebecca Luker, John Cameron Mitchell, Mandy Patinkin, Barbara Rosenblat, Tom Toner, Robert Westenbergebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• DRG Records recorded March of the Falsettos (with Alison Fraser as Trina) and Falsettoland (with Faith Prince as Trina). These two recordings are now combined into one package. With the exception of the addition of “I’m Breaking Down,” the score is the same.ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Cast: Patti LuPone, Laura Benanti, Boyd Gaines, Leigh Ann Larkin, Tony Yazbeck, Marilyn Caskey, Alison Fraser, Lenora Nemetz, Bill Bateman, Jim Bracchitta, Sami Gayle, Bill Raymond, Brian Reddy, Emma Rowleyebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Tessie Tura has presumably surefire laughs and overtly pretentious remarks that had been difficult for Alison Fraser to use to create a character she believed in. Now it all came together: Tessie became a remnant in a sagging world. Tough and fragile, she was moving and funny because she wasn't working to be either. She was just Tessie Tu…ebooks/Laurents, Arthur/Mainly on Directing - Arthur Laurents.txt
• Last Cast: Arthur directing the last cast of his career ( Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You Are). Jim Bracchitta, Alison Fraser, and Shirley Knight (far left) were treasured collaborators and soul mates. (Others pictured: John Carter, Leslie Lyles, Christopher Howatt and Danny Stone.)ebooks/Laurents, Arthur/Rest of the Story_ A Life Completed, The - Arthur Laurents.txt
• Bernadette felt the subject matter was too close to home; she bowed out. Because Bernadette sang, the character sang. So did Alison Fraser, a highlight of the last Gypsy I directed, the best Tessie Tura of them all. Alison had lost her husband as Bernadette had; Alison felt the loss as keenly, maybe more so because she wasn’t able to perf…ebooks/Laurents, Arthur/Rest of the Story_ A Life Completed, The - Arthur Laurents.txt

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