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| WEST SIDE WALTZ (1981) |
Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, January 23-March 14, 1981
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, Premiere: November 19, 1981
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CAST
Cora Varnum: Dorothy Loudon
Serge Barrescu: David Margulies
Margaret Mary Elderdice: Katharine Hepburn
Robin Bird: Regina Boff
Glen Drabinsky: Don Howard
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CREDITS
Playwright: Ernest Thompson
Presented by: Robert Whitehead and Roger L. Stevens, in association with the Center Theatre Group-Ahmanson
Staged by: Noel Willman
Setting by: Ben Edwards
Costumes by: Jane Greenwood
Lighting by: Thomas Skelton
General Manager: Oscar E. Olesen
Stage Managers: Ben Strobach, Valentine Mayer, Sally Lapiduss
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CRITIQUES
"Katharine Hepburn is virtually the whole show in [this play]. And since she is a glittering star and one of the top boxoffice names of the current stage, the Ernest Thompson comedy-drama is an unquestioned hit. Hepburn is enormously winning as the besieged grand dame, a role she turns into an obvious and entirely acceptable version of her own public image. No normal playgoers could mistake the Hepburn characterization - or not be beguiled by it. It is marvelously theatrical."
- Variety
"One mysterious thing she has learned to do is breathe unchallengeable life into lifeless lines. She does it, or seems to do it, by giving the most serious consideration to every syllable she utters. There may have been a time when she coasted on mannerisms, turned on her rhythms into a form of rapid transit. That time is long gone."
- Walter Kerr, The New York Times
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Katharine Hepburn, Dorothy Loudon
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