Anita Gillette

On stage 10 productions, 24 years

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Worked with more than once10 names

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In the literature8 passages

• Anita Gillette, chorus member and understudy for Alberghetti, describes an episode that occurred during the pre-Broadway run at Washington’s National Theatre. Gower had decided that she was too American-looking to play Lili and broke the news to her while staging a scene with Ballard and Mitchell. Gillette entered the theatre and took the…ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
• Cast: Anna Maria Alberghetti, James Mitchell, Kaye Ballard, Pierre Olaf, Jerry Orbach, Henry Lascoe, Anita Gilletteebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• During the Broadway run, Miss Haworth was succeeded by Anita Gillette, Melissa Hart, and Tandy Cronyn. For the tour, which lasted one year seven months, the leads were taken by Miss Hart, Leo Fuchs (Schultz), Gene Rupert (Clifford), Signe Hasso (Fraulein), and Robert Salvio (MC). The 1972 film version retained Joel Grey (who also starred…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Merrick's first strategy was to sing the praises of her understudy, Anita Gillette, so customers wouldn't feel they were being shortchanged: "If I'd known she was this good when we were casting, she would have had the part." Gillette, however, was leaving in ten days to play a role in a new musical by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, The…ebooks/Kissel, Howard/David Merrick - The Abominable Showman_ The Unauthorized Biography (Applause Books) - Howard Kissel.txt
• Anita Gillette, a small, brown-haired girl with large, soft eyes, sat at a table among several dancers. To Tony di Vecchi, a dancer who kept his money in his shoes, she said, "Tony, am I on the way up or the way down?"ebooks/Suskin, Steven/B001T4YWBO EBOK - Steven Suskin.txt
• Pocahontas Music, lyrics and book by Kermit Goell, based on his book Pocahontas . Lyric Theatre, 14 November 1963. PC: Anita Gillette, Terence Cooper, Isabelle Lucas, Michael Barrington, Christene Palmer. MN: Prologue: The First Landing; Gold; She Fancied Me; Free as a Bird; You Have to Want to Touch Him; Too Many Miles from London Town;…ebooks/Wright, Adrian/Tanner's Worth of Tune_ Rediscovering the post-war British Musical, A - Adrian Wright.txt

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