My First Hundred Years in Show Business
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My First Hundred Years in Show Business

A Memoir

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

My First Hundred Years in Show Business

A Memoir

About this book


This Tony winner's memoir is "a riot of characters met and characters played . . . a funny, frank, and savvy chronicle of a wonderful life." —David Hyde Pierce
 
Mary Louise Wilson became a star at age sixty with her smash one-woman play Full Gallop, portraying legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland. But before and since, her life and career—including the Tony Award for her portrayal of Big Edie in Grey Gardens—have been celebrated and varied. 
 
Raised in New Orleans with a social climbing, alcoholic mother, Mary Louise moved to New York City in the late 1950s; lived with her gay brother in the Village; entered the nightclub scene in a legendary revue; and rubbed shoulders with every famous person of that era and since. My First Hundred Years in Show Business gets it all down. Yet as delicious as the anecdotes are, the heart of this book is in its unblinkingly honest depiction of the life of a working actor. In her inimitable voice—wry, admirably unsentimental, mordantly funny—Mary Louise Wilson has crafted a work that is at once a teeming social history of the New York theatre scene and a thoroughly revealing, superbly entertaining memoir of the life of an extraordinary woman and actor.
 
"Brims with anecdotes . . . plenty of laughs [and] plenty of candor, too." — Nola.com

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Information

Publisher
Abrams Press
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9781468312249
Print ISBN
9781468313581
Subtopic
Acting & Auditioning

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Dedication
  5. 1989
  6. 1940s
  7. 1950s: New York City
  8. 1950s: Nightclubs
  9. 1991: First Reading of Full Gallop
  10. The Village
  11. My Last Office Job
  12. 1957: My First Theater Job
  13. The Village Club Scene
  14. The Threepenny Opera
  15. George Furth
  16. Full Gallop
  17. More Full Gallop
  18. 1959: Julius Monk
  19. Lovelady Powell
  20. 1960s: Television Commercials
  21. Julius at the Plaza
  22. 1963: Hot Spot
  23. Twice Over Nightly
  24. Full Gallop
  25. Acting Lessons
  26. 1964: Sherman, Connecticut
  27. Oklahoma! Tour
  28. 1964: Bad Times
  29. 1965: Flora the Red Menace
  30. 1960s-1970s: Industrial Shows
  31. The Marriage
  32. Auditioning
  33. Singing
  34. Wally Harper
  35. 1991: A Reading at Playwrights Horizons
  36. André Bishop
  37. Television Commercials
  38. Unemployment
  39. Unemployment Insurance
  40. The Call
  41. The Cosmopolitan Club
  42. 1969: Cincinnati
  43. Full Gallop
  44. 1972: Gypsy
  45. Sally Cooke
  46. Going On
  47. On the Road
  48. The Mink
  49. 1993: Full Gallop Juilliard Benefit
  50. Ellis Rabb
  51. Doris Dowling
  52. 1976: The Royal Family
  53. May 1993: Woodstock
  54. June 1993: Bay Street
  55. Pilot Season
  56. L.A. in the Seventies
  57. McGraw’s
  58. Summer 1994: The Way of the World
  59. 1977: One Day at a Time
  60. Earnest
  61. 1978: Alice at the Public
  62. More Hugh
  63. 1981: Fools
  64. 1982: Zelig
  65. 1982: Whorehouse
  66. 1980s: Mega-Agents
  67. Being Packaged
  68. Green Card
  69. Nonprofit Theaters
  70. Fired
  71. November 1994: Full Gallop with the Allens
  72. Theaters
  73. 1984-1985: On the Road Again
  74. Odd Couple Diary
  75. On the Road (Again) ’84–’85
  76. L.A.
  77. 1990
  78. Full Gallop
  79. Momentum
  80. The Inevitable Ending
  81. The Chair
  82. Finally
  83. After Full Gallop
  84. 1999: Full Gallop in London
  85. 2006: Grey Gardens
  86. More George
  87. The Obies
  88. The Tonys
  89. Nowadays
  90. Who’s Who
  91. Thank You
  92. About the Author

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