RIP Valerie Harper!!! I will never forget your legendary performance @ The Ordway back in 2006 tour of the Tony winning one woman play Goldas Balcony... it was a tour de force, and cemented your acting abilities as in a league of your own! Goldas Balcony remains one of the best plays Ive ever seen in all my theatregoing years... Valerie Harper became Golda Meir, the two were inseparable, and the performance was mesmerizing! Thank you for the memories!!!
As I said in another thread awhile ago, Miss Harper was one of the nicest celebrities I have ever met. I was in high school, with a night job ushering at the local theater; she was at the height of her fame, having just left TMTM SHOW and begun her own spinoff, RHODA, but was touring with Paul Sills' STORY THEATRE out of loyalty to the company where she began her professional career.
I was also on the staff of my high school newspaper, and Harper and her then-husband, Richard Schaal, gave me a 2-hour interview for my school paper with its circulation of a thousand or so readers. We talked about everything from her early and then current work with Paul Sills to her TV shows (which I adored).
I expected maybe five to ten minutes of her time, but even when the show started she said, "Oh, we don't have to stop talking. I don't go on for 20 minutes."
The ensuing interview was deemed interesting enough to run almost in full, spreading to every page of that month's edition. It was in far more detail than anything published on that show in the local periodicals.
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Posted: 8/30/19 at 8:56pm