Estelle Parsons

On stage 25 productions, 58 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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Also credited on1 work

Bonnie and Clyde

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In the literature8 passages

• Act One: Overture (Orchestra); “Postage-Stamp Principality” (Tourists, Monegasques); “Don’t Tell Me” (Goldon Polk, Virginia Gibson); “(Gee, But) It’s Good to Be Here” (Ethel Merman, Seth Riggs, Gene Wesson, Estelle Parsons, Robert C. Held, Carl Nicholas); “Mutual Admiration Society” (Ethel Merman, Virginia Gibson); “For Love or Money” (Gi…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Cast: Kevin Kline, Estelle Parsons, Linda Ronstadt, George Rose, Rex Smith, Tony Azitoebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Cast as one of the newspaper reporters was future Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons.ebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
• Who else started out in the chorus at the Shubert? Estelle Parsons was an ensemble member and understudy in Whoop-Up in 1958. In 1959, Valerie Harper made her Broadway debut as “Lady Entertainer, Townswoman” in Take Me Along , and occupied a small sliver of a Shubert chorus dressing room at the age of 20. Future Tony Award-winning directo…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 1, The - Jennifer Tepper.txt
• ESTELLE PARSONS, FRANK PORRETTA, BARBARA HARRIS in ‘‘THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY”theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
• Playwright Osvaldo Dragun and actress Estelle Parsons at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., during the First Festival of the Theater in the Americas in June 1979. [Americas]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt

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