Post by rick on Jul 31, 2022 23:27:03 GMT -5
Most people nowadays remember or think of Pat Carroll as the voice of Ursula in Disney's 1989 film "The Little Mermaid" and the song "Poor Unfortunate Souls." I am old enough to remember her as Bunny Halper on Danny Thomas' sitcom. In the obituary below from The New York Times, it talks about how she didn't want to just play moms on sitcoms so she commissioned the one-woman show "Gertrude Stein. Gertrude Stein. Gertrude Stein." I was fortunate to have seen Pat Carroll in that show in 1979 in Greenwich Village. She was breath-taking. It's a performance that live on in my memory for as long as I live.
Pat Carroll, TV Mainstay Turned Stage Star, Dies at 95 / Tired of sitcoms and game shows, she reinvented herself in a one-woman show about Gertrude Stein — and, later, in a gender-bending Shakespeare role.
And her Pioneers of Television interview --
