{"id":329,"date":"2008-12-03T04:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2008\/12\/i-was-never-in-the-chorus.html"},"modified":"2008-12-03T04:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T08:42:00","slug":"i-was-never-in-the-chorus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":""I Was Never in the Chorus""},"content":{"rendered":"

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I post this rare shot of Anne<\/a> Francine<\/a> and Angela Lansbury performing “Bosom Buddies” in Mame <\/em>for my own Moon Lady and fervent Mame\/Lansbury enthusiast, Sarah<\/a>, who I think will appreciate this more than anyone else. In talking about the character of Vera Charles with a friend of mine, I decided to google image Ms. Francine and lo and behold, this shot popped up. Francine, born into a wealthy Main Line Philadelphia family, was a noted actress and sophisticated nightclub singer who replaced Tony-winner Bea Arthur as eternally inebriated Vera about a year into the original run. She toured with Lansbury in 1968 and subsequently returned for the remainder of the show’s Broadway run . She also reprised the role in the short-lived revival, again with Angie, in 1983. She considered this the favorite role of her career. Other Broadway appearances included By the Beautiful Sea, Tenderloin, The Great Sebastians <\/em>and the 1987 Lincoln Center revival of Anything Goes. <\/em>Her film work was scarce (she was in Juliet of the Spirits, The Savages <\/em>and Crocodile Dundee); <\/em>however, some of you may recognize her as Barbara Eden’s archnemesis Flora Simpson Reilly on the TV series “Harper Valley, PTA.”<\/p>\n

Now, getting down to business, who should play Vera in the next revival…?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I post this rare shot of Anne Francine and Angela Lansbury performing “Bosom Buddies” in Mame for my own Moon Lady and fervent Mame\/Lansbury enthusiast, Sarah, who I think will appreciate this more than anyone else. In talking about the character of Vera Charles with a friend of mine, I decided to google image Ms. … Continue reading "I Was Never in the Chorus"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1598,2011,1887],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-angela-lansbury","tag-anne-francine","tag-mame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3636,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/3636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}