Their Favorite Things: Follies Star and Award-Winning Comic Rita Rudner Shares Her Theatregoing Experiences | 半岛体育

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Stage to Page Their Favorite Things: Follies Star and Award-Winning Comic Rita Rudner Shares Her Theatregoing Experiences 半岛体育.com's feature series Their Favorite Things asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.

This week we spotlight the choices of Rita Rudner, who was part of the cast of the original Broadway productions of Follies, Mack & Mabel and Annie before becoming an award-winning, internationally acclaimed comic. Rudner will bring her stand-up to .

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Rita Rudner

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I鈥檓 starting with two shows I was in. I remember the night Yvonne missed her cue for 鈥淚鈥檓 Still Here鈥� and ran down the stairs from her dressing room, holding her shoes and screaming, 鈥淚鈥檓 coming!鈥�

鈥� Mack &t Mabel

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I was a bathing beauty in this show. Robert Preston鈥檚 command of the stage and ability to sing when he had virtually no singing voice was always impressive.

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There were so many stand-out performances in this show 鈥� and , for example 鈥� but I always loved the way Priscilla performed 鈥淣othing.鈥� A Chorus Line is still my favorite show I wasn鈥檛 in.

鈥� Company

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She delivered a great cocktail of hostility and vulnerability, which, if she were still here, she would no doubt drink. I鈥檒l drink to that!

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Has there ever been a better close to a first act than Jennifer Holliday singing 鈥淚 Am Telling You鈥�?

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Best legs in show business. I loved him and in this.

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My first job as a dancer was a tour of with Chita Rivera. I was sixteen and she terrified me. For me, she and are still the definitive Chicago pairing.

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Sinead Cusack鈥檚 performances in two parts 鈥� a mother and daughter 鈥� made me weep鈥�.unusual for a play.

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Another British import; great play and a great performance by a man who was taken from us too soon and was so much more than Mr. Dursley in the Harry Potter films.

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I loved 鈥檚 writing 鈥� talk about people being taken too soon 鈥� and loved her heroines.  Joan Allen鈥檚 Heidi 鈥� successful, yet riddled with self-doubt 鈥� was someone to whom I could relate way too closely.

 
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