Golden Girl Rue McClanahan Suffers a Stroke

Golden Girl and former Broadway star Rue McClanahan, has sadly suffered a stroke while recovering from bypass surgery that she received in November. As previously reported, the actress underwent the surgery to treat an acute cardiac illness.

Doctors were reportedly successful in removing the blood clot that caused the stroke, which occurred soon after the surgery, but McClanahan's recovery has been slow. She spent two weeks in the ICU and is now in a nursing facility having completed rehab. Says her husband Matthew Wilson: "She can understand what you are saying in conversation, but still has some trouble speaking. Her speech is slower than it once was and she hasn't completely recovered on the right side of her body. She's going to require a lot more physical and speech therapy - but at least it's not like I stay awake at nights any more thinking that Rue is going to die."

McClanahan began acting on Off-Broadway in New York City in 1957, and her Broadway debut in 1969 when she portrayed Sally Weber in the original production of John Sebastian and Murray Schisgal's musical Jimmy Shine with Dustin Hoffman in the title role. She went on to star on Broadway in Father's Day, Sticks and Bones, California Suite, The Women, and Wicked. McClanahanthen found primetime success in Maude, broadcast from 1972 to 1978, playing Maude's (Bea Arthur) best friend, Vivian Harmon; and, of course, in The Golden Girls, broadcast from 1985 until 1992 as Southern Belle Blanche Devereaux. She received an Emmy Award in 1987 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on The Golden Girls.

Source by.: www.broadwayworld.com

PRISCILLA Queen of The Desert The Musical - London

"If you’ve seen the Oscar®-winning movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, you’ll know that this spectacular new musical tells the hilarious and heart-warming story of three friends who hop aboard a battered old bus (named Priscilla) and take their show to the middle of the Australian outback. These larger-than-life characters go in search of love and friendship, but end up finding more than they could ever have dreamed!

Much-loved Australian actor Tony Sheldon repeats his award-winning performance as Bernadette and is joined by Britain’s very own adopted Aussie Jason Donovan as Tick and handsome young leading man Oliver Thornton as Adam. Helping out when things threaten to get out-of-hand is Clive Carter as Bob, the mechanic.

On stage, well there’s a £1m scene-stealing bus, 500 outrageous costumes from the movie’s Oscar®-winning designers Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner and 28 of the most glamorous and talented performers the West End can muster, performing dance-floor classics including I Will Survive, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Shake Your Groove Thing, Don’t Leave Me This Way and Finally."









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La Cage Aux Folles - original London cast 1987

"Dennis Quilley as Georges introduces the original London cast of La Cage Aux Folles at the 1987 Laurence Olivier Award"

Grey Gardens

Bom sinto falta de muita coisa, que por aqui e dificil de encontrar. Mais vamos la um pouco de humor faz bem e como faz bem. E que saudades de algums musicais.
Grey Gardens showcases the eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
who were once among the brightest names in the pre-Camelot social register but became
East Hampton's most notorious recluses that thrived together amid the decay and disorder of their dilapidated 28-room mansion. Grey Gardens records the Beales' real lives from mother and daughter quarrelling to the ruined estate crawling with cats and fleas.

Grey Gardens is a Maysles Films Inc. production directed by David Maysles, Albert
Maysles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, and associate produced by Susan Froemke.