Diana

Productions2 on Broadway

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Licensing 4 entries

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In the literature9 passages

featuring a heroic turn by star Diana Rigg), and the as-yet-unproduced-in-New York musical version of Our Town titled Grover’s Corners. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p312

In the end, all is well, and Mary gives birth to twins. book:the-golden-age-of-american-musical-theatre-1943-1965-naden-corinne-j-rowman-litt#p27

New songs were added with music by William Friml (Rudolf’s son) and Burton Lane, and the new version jettisoned most of the political connotations and social significance, adding a love triangle between Sylvester, Sandy (renamed Penny), and a new character, Diana, Bigelow’s secretary. book:not-since-carrie-forty-years-of-broadway-musical-flops-ken-mandelbaum#p334

Diana is played by Jennifer Laura Thompson. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2009-to-may-2010-sixth-viagas-robert-new-yor#p185

The 2021 biomusical Diana featured a scene where the Princess of Wales visited gay men in an AIDS ward of a London hospital, but the less said about it, the better. book:broadway-bodies-ryan-donovan-2023#p280

This last played the Ethel Barrymore, with Ethel’s brother John’s daughter Diana hopeless as the second Mrs. de Winter. Not coincidentally, Maxim de Winter was portrayed by Bramwell Fletcher, Diana Barrymore’s husband at the time. book:broadway-yearbook-2001-2002-a-relevant-and-irreverent-steven-suskin-kindle-2003-#p254

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