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Barbara Barrie

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Actor b. 1931 On stage 19552017

Barbara Barrie (born Barbara Ann Berman; May 23, 1931) is an American actress and author. Her film breakthrough came in 1964 with her performance as Julie in the landmark film One Potato, Two Potato, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. She is best known for her role as Evelyn Stohler in Breaking Away, which brought her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1979 and an Emmy Award nomination in 1981 when she reprised the role in the television series based on the film. On television, Barrie is perhaps best known for her portrayal of the wife of the namesake captain in the detective sitcom Barney Miller between 1975 and 1978. She also is kn…

On stage 11 productions, 62 years

1955 The Wooden Dish Booth Theatre · Original · directed by Louis Calhern 12 perf.
1959 The Beaux Stratagem Phoenix Theatre · Revival · directed by Stuart Vaughan 16 perf.
1966 Happily Never After Eugene Oneill Theatre · Original · directed by Joseph Anthony 4 perf.
1970 Company Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by Harold Prince 705 perf.
1971 The Prisoner of Second Avenue Eugene Oneill Theatre · Original · directed by Mike Nichols 798 perf.
1972 The Selling of the President Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Robert H. Livingston 5 perf.
1976 California Suite Eugene Oneill Theatre · Original · directed by Gene Saks 445 perf.
1982 Torch Song Trilogy Theatre not recorded · Original · directed by Peter Pope 1,222 perf.
1993 Company Vivian Beaumont Theater · Revival · directed by Harold Prince 2 perf.
2004 Fiddler on the Roof Minskoff Theatre · Revival · directed by Jerome Robbins 781 perf.
2017 Significant Other Booth Theatre · Original · directed by Trip Cullman 61 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once12 names

Pamela Myers 3 productions
Vincent Gardenia 2 productions
Susan Browning 2 productions
Steve Elmore 2 productions
Stanley Grover 2 productions
Merle Louise 2 productions
John Cunningham 2 productions
Harvey Fierstein 2 productions
George Coe 2 productions
Elaine Stritch 2 productions
Donna McKechnie 2 productions
Dean Jones 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking.

In the literature8 passages

  • Cast: Dean Jones, Elaine Stritch, Barbara Barrie, John Cunningham, Charles Kimbrough, Donna McKechnie, Charles Braswell, Susan Browning, Steve Elmore, Beth Howland, Pamela Myers, Merle Louiseebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • The company had been unhappy with their director for quite some time. Experienced hands including Pat Hingle, Barbara Barrie, and, in one really idiotic piece of insane miscasting, the great singer Karen Morrow, in a non-singing role—oh, never mind!—were all overwhelmed with relief that their lyricist/book writer was finally making sense…ebooks/O'Brien, Jack/Jack Be Nimble_ The Accidental Education of an Unintentional Director - Jack O'Brien.txt
  • Three of Company ’s stars: Elaine Stritch, Dean Jones, and Barbara Barrie (Illustration Credit 26)ebooks/Secrest, Meryle/Stephen Sondheim - Meryle Secrest.txt
  • BARBARA BARRIE, JACK WESTON, TAMMY GRIMES, GEORGE GRIZZARD in “CALIFORNIA SUITE”theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • (starred above the title in Nanette) took the supporting actress award, against Company's Barbara Barrie (with more prominent and largertheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
  • with Karen Morrow, Barbara Barrie, Johnny Olson, Robert _ (replacing _Darnell, John Glover, and Robert Fiza Howard St. John) -theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt

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