Memorial Service to be Held for Spamalot's Darlene Wilson

A memorial service will be held on Tuesday March 27 at 2 PM at the Shubert Theatre (225 West 44th Street) for Darlene Wilson, Spamalot's Associate Choreographer. Wilson, also a former cast member, died on March 2. The service is open to the public.

Speakers at the service will include Spamalot's choreographer Casey Nicholaw, the show's Associate Director, Peter Lawrence, Nancy Hess, Kate d'Ambrozio and Robert Longbottom. Choreography by Ms. Wilson will be performed, and Alice Ripley, Emily Skinner,
Tripp Hanson and Rosemary Loar will sing.

On Spamalot, Ms. Wilson was assistant choreographer to  Casey Nicholaw, as well as understudy for the role of The Lady of the Lake. She as also assistant choreographer Robert Longbottom on 1997's Side Show and associate choreographer to Longbottom on the 2002 revival of Flower Drum Song. She also assisted Adam Pelt on The Scarlet Pimpernel.
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Darlene Wilson came to New York to pursue a performing career shortly after graduating from high school in Wallkill, NY, and first preformed on Broadway as Cassandra in Cats. She was also a standby several roles in Andew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, and appeared in national tours of A Chorus Line, Cats, 42nd Street, and This Was Burlesque.

She is survived by her husband, Matt Zytko; her mother and step-father Julie and James Williamson; her sister, Michele Martucci; her brother, Scott Wilson; her step-sister, Diane Halstead; and nieces and nephews.  Donations may be made in her name to St. Judes Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.

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