Betty Buckley

On stage 9 productions, 36 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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In the literature8 passages

• In 1994, I played Joe Gillis to Betty Buckley’s Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard at the Adelphi Theatre in London. Sunset has one of the best opening scenes in musical theatre. When the curtain rises, the audience is looking at Norma’s swimming pool where my character, Joe, is floating dead on the shimmering surface…ebooks/Barrowman, John & Barrowman, Carole E_/Anything Goes - John Barrowman & Carole E. Barrowman.txt
• Earlier in the week, during another performance, I’d made a mistake during a scene with Betty Buckley and I think Anita had taken her cue to pull a prank or two from my screw-up. In the scene before Joe and Betty Schaefer have their confrontation on the stairs, Norma Desmond rushes to the phone, picks it up and out of pure spite calls Bet…ebooks/Barrowman, John & Barrowman, Carole E_/Anything Goes - John Barrowman & Carole E. Barrowman.txt
• Instead, I entered from the left, marched over to Betty Buckley as Norma, grabbed the phone from her hand and my mind went blank. Nothing. No lines came into my head and I slammed the phone down without saying anything. No address. No cue.ebooks/Barrowman, John & Barrowman, Carole E_/Anything Goes - John Barrowman & Carole E. Barrowman.txt
• BETTY BUCKLEY , star of stage, screen, and television, made her Broadway debut as Martha Jefferson in 1776 . Among her other Broadway roles are Catherine in Pippin , Grizabella in Cats , and Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard .ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• BETTY BUCKLEY: When I was eleven, I saw Pajama Game in a summer-stock version in Fort Worth, Texas. The choreographer had danced in the Broadway production, and he used the original Bob Fosse choreography. For me it was an epiphany. There was this consciousness rising at the top of my head that said, That’s what you’re going to be doing f…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• BETTY BUCKLEY: I may love working in London, but I’m a Broadway baby. I want it to happen here because this is my home. More than anything else, I want to be on a Broadway stage.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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