Dorothy Loudon

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Dorothy Loudon
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Annie

Dorothy Loudon (September 17, 1925 – November 15, 2003)

Golden Globe award for her appearances on The Garry Moore Show
.

Early life and career

Loudon was born in

The Perry Como Show and The Ed Sullivan Show.[4]

Loudon made her stage debut in 1962 in The World of

Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical. She followed this with a revival of Three Men on a Horse directed by George Abbott; Lolita, My Love, which closed out-of-town during its pre-Broadway tryout; and a revival of the Clare Boothe Luce comedy The Women.[5]

Broadway

Loudon's performance as the evil orphanage administrator Miss Hannigan in

Clive Barnes wrote, "As the wicked Miss Hannigan, Dorothy Loudon, eyes bulging with envy, face sagging with hatred, is deliciously and deliriously horrid. She never puts a sneer, a leer, or even a scream in the wrong place, and her singing has just the right brassy bounce to it."[6]
Loudon later revisited the character of Miss Hannigan in the ill-fated 1990 sequel, Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge, which closed quickly after a dismal pre-Broadway engagement in Washington D.C.

In 1979,

Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical. She performed the number "Fifty Percent" from the musical during that year's Tony Awards ceremony. During her rendition of George Gershwin's "Vodka" at the 1983 Tony Awards ceremony while resplendent in a blue sequined gown, she ad-libbed "I'm too good for this room. I'm too good for this song...but I'm not too good for this dress!"[7][8] At the 38th Annual Tony Awards ceremony in 1984, Loudon performed "Broadway Baby" from Follies. In The New York Times, John O'Connor said of her performance, "Miss Loudon has developed the art of mugging into something of a hyperactive disease."[9]

In 1980, Loudon succeeded

Chicago theatre. She appeared in the 1983 Jerry Herman revue Jerry's Girls and later the same year she played the role of the miserable middle-aged actress Dotty Otley on Broadway in Michael Frayn's farce Noises Off.[2]

She was cast as Carlotta Vance in the Lincoln Center Theater production of Dinner at Eight but was replaced by Marian Seldes in November 2002 when Loudon left the play because of illness.[11]

Television and film

Loudon was chosen as the replacement for

Serena Dawes in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997). She also appeared in the book version of the latter
.

Personal life

The headstone of Dorothy Loudon

Loudon was married to composer Norman Paris (born Norman Thaddeus Paris; 1925–1977) from 1971 to his death. Together they had no children and Loudon never remarried. She died in Manhattan, age 78, from cancer on November 15, 2003. Loudon was interred in Kensico Cemetery in Westchester County, New York. She left no immediate survivors except for two step-children from her marriage to Paris.[5]

Discography

  • Dorothy Loudon at the Blue Angel[12]
  • Saloon[13]
  • Broadway Baby[14]

Theatre credits

Filmography credits

Film

Television

  • It's a Business (1952) - Secretary
  • The Garry Moore Show (1962–1964) - Herself
  • All My Children (1970) - Veronica Mullens (1993)
  • Dorothy (1979) - Dorothy Banks
  • Magnum, P.I. (1986)
  • Murder, She Wrote (1986)
  • Performance at the White House: Showstoppers (1988) - Herself
  • A Salute to Broadway: Showstoppers (1988, TV Movie) - Herself
  • Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1993) - Herself
  • My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies (1999) - Herself

References

  1. ^ Dorothy Loudon 1940 census, showing parents Joseph and Dorothy (née Shaw) Loudon and maternal grandparents with surname Shaw, giving her age as 14 in April 1940
  2. ^ a b Internet Broadway Database profile, ibdb.com; accessed November 27, 2014.
  3. ^ Dorothy Loudon Foundation
  4. ^ Oliver, Myrna.Dorothy Loudon, 70; Stage Actress Was 'Miss Hannigan'", Los Angeles Times, November 17, 2003.
  5. ^
    Simonson, Robert. "Memorial Service for Dorothy Loudon to Be Held Nov. 20"
    playbill, 19, November 2003
  6. ISBN 0-521-83538-0
    , p. 404
  7. YouTube
  8. ^ O'Connor, John. "TV:The Tony Awards, With Gershwin Tribute", The New York Times, June 7, 1983, p.C8
  9. ^ O'Connor, John. "The 38th Tony Awards", The New York Times, June 5, 1984, p. C17
  10. ^ Sterritt, David. Christian Science Monitor (Boston, MA), Theater Reviews, March 26, 1980, p. 23
  11. ^ Jones, Kenneth; Simonson, Robert. "Seldes Replaces Dorothy Loudon in Lincoln Center Theater's 'Dinner at Eight'" playbill, November 27, 2002
  12. ^ "Dorothy Loudon at the Blue Angel & Other Rarities". Amazon.
  13. ^ "Saloon". Amazon.
  14. ^ "Broadway Baby". Amazon.
  15. ^ Jones, Kenneth. "New Kander & Ebb Musical, 'Over & Over', Debuts Jan. 6 in Arlington, VA" playbill, January 5, 1999

External links

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