Marie Wallace: On Stage and in Shadows (12/08/2020)

https://smile.amazon.com/Stage-Shadows-Preface-Foreword-Jonathan/dp/0595358772/ Marie Wallace started her career in the Off-Broadway production of Sophocles’ Electra and Terence Rattigan’s Harlequinade directed by Philip Burton. From there, she went immediately into the chorus of Ethel Merman’s Gypsy. Marie was featured in seven Broadway productions after that, directed by some of the great directors of that time – Gene Saks, Noel Willman, Morton DaCosta, Tom Conti and Bob Fosse. She was featured alongside Bert Lahr, Larry Hagman, Alice Ghostly, Robert Preston, Alexis Smith and Gwen Verdon among many others. In-between, Marie starred in ABC’s classic gothic drama, Dark Shadows for two years, getting a chance to play three diverse roles – first, Eve “the most evil lady who ever lived”, “Crazy” Jenny Collins, and then Megan Todd who finally was smitten/bitten by the 175-year-old-vampire Barnabas. At that point, she was a vampire and finally had a knife put through her heart by Crazy Willie. It is now over fifty years since the first day of production, and the fan following of the original cast is as big as ever. https://youtu.be/yuMfb78hC4g https://www.facebook.com/ActressMarieWallace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Wallace https://www.facebook.com/groups/159471470328/