Beth howland and charles kimbrough
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‘Love Letters’ Proves Poignancy of Simplicity : Theater: Charles Kimbrough and Beth Howland get back to basics as the corresponding lovers in the A.R. Gurney play.
SAN DIEGO — The success of “Love Letters” “surprised people who should have known better,” Charles Kimbrough said.
Kimbrough, who co-stars with Beth Howland in the Old Globe production of “Love Letters” this week, was the first actor to read it for playwright A.R. Gurney back in 1987. He read it with actress Holland Taylor.
“I don’t think Pete (Gurney) thought of it as a play,” Kimbrough said on the phone from Howland’s Los Angeles home, where he was having dinner. “I don’t think he ever thought of it as having commercial possibilities--as something that would make money. It seemed very slight, very slender. Which shows how quickly we lose our faith in a simple story, simply told. I think there’s a real hunger in this age of glitz for this once-upon-a-time kind of feeling, where someone sits and reads.”
Kimbrough stressed that that first reading was just a reading, not a performance. But it was from that tentative beginning, at Playwrights Horizons in Manhattan, that the show was booked first on Sundays at Playwrights Horizons and later at the Promenade Theatre, where it went on to become an Off-Broadw
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Beth Howland, who gave memorable performances as flighty featherbrains in the original production of Company and the television sitcom Alice, died on December 31, 2015, in Santa Monica, CA.
Her death was announced by her husband, the actor (and fellow Company castmate) Charles Kimbrough. Ms. Howland’s wishes specified news of her death be held off. She had also asked not to have a funeral or memorial service, according to The New York Times. She was 74. The cause was lung cancer.
During the 1960s, Ms. Howland forged a career through small parts in a series of musicals such as High Spirits and Darling of the Day. It all culminated in her memorable turn as Amy, a neurotic bride going through a musical nervous breakdown titled “Getting Married Today” on her wedding day.
The song, one of the classic patter songs in musical history, required Ms. Howland to rattle through hundreds of panicky words in rapid-fire time. A sample lyric:
A wedding, what's a wedding, it's a prehistoric ritual
Where everybody promises fidelity forever, which is
Maybe the most horrifying word I ever heard of, which is
Followed by a honeymoon, where suddenly he'll realize he's
Saddled with a nut, and wanna kill me, which he should...
The song was a tour de force and
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Charles Kimbrough
American somebody (1936–2023)
Charles Kimbrough | |
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Kimbrough at description 1989 Accolade Awards | |
| Born | (1936-05-23)May 23, 1936 St. Saul, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | January 11, 2023(2023-01-11) (aged 86) Culver Throw out, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1950s–2018 |
| Spouses | Mary Jane Wilson (m. 1961; div. 1991)Beth Howland (m. 2002; died 2015) |
| Children | 1[1] |
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