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The Deborah Kerr Fellowship League -
A Foundation for the Performing Arts
( Those Neon Lights and Film Journals )

Est. in Brooklyn, N.Y. circa1956

To the THEATRE -
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Stage Roles Stage Roles ...    front _____  ___row___                _____seats   On Saturday September 10th 1977, at 12 midnight, a special performance will be given at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane called Jubilee 'A Theatrical Celebration". This will benefit both The Queen's Silver Jubilee Appeal and The Combined theatrical Charities' apppeals Council and will take place in the presence of H.R.H. The Prince of wales. Among the many artists who have already agreed to appear (subject to their other commitments at the time) are Polly Adams, Patrick Allen, Jean Anderson, Lynda Baron, Richard Briers, Phyllis Calvert, Joyce Carey, John Clements, Paul Eddington, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Adam Faith, Sir John Gielgud, Joan Greenwood, Susan Hampshire, Rex Harrison, Nicky henson, Dame Wendy Hiller, Harold Innocent, Penelope Keith, Felicity Kendal, Cheryl Kennedy, Deborah Kerr, Dinsdale Landen, Angela Lansbury, Evelyn Laye, Sarah Lawson, Alec McCowen, Sir John Mills, Andre Morell, David Niven, Nigel Patrick, Joan Plowright, Dinah Sheridan, John Standing and June Whitfield. Writers contributing include: Lionel Bart, Caryl Brahms, Leslie Bricusse, John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, Dick Francis, Michael Frayn, John Mortimer, Andre Previn, Tim Rice and andrew Lioyd Webber, Anthony Shaffer, Julian Slade, William Trevor, Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall and Sandy Wilson. Jubilee will not affect the performances of A Chorus Line which will take place as usual that day.     " The Boys in Autumn " Opened in the Circle in the Square Theatre on Wednesday, April 30th, 1986 CAST Henry Finnegan, an older man .............. George C. Scott Thomas gray, his friend of long ago ........... John Cullum A play in two acts. The action takes place on the front porch and in the yard of a house on a bluff overlooking the river outside the town of Hannibal, Missouri, on a sunny September afternoon in the early 1920s. Closed June 29th, 1986 after 70 performances and 21 previews.
John Willis Theatre World Volume 42 - 1985/1986 " LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT " Opened in the Broadhurst Theatre on Monday, April 28th, 1986. CAST  Mary Tyrone .......................... Bethel Leslie James Tyrone ...................... Jack Lemmon James Tyrone, Jr. ............. Peter Gallagher Cathleen ............Jodie Lynne McClintock A drama in 4 acts and 5 scenes,  performed with one intermission. The action takes place in the livingroom of the Tyrone's summer home in August of 1912. Closed June 29th, 1986 after 54 performances and 6 previews. Original production opened at the old Helen Hayes theatre on November 7th, 1956 and ran for 390 performances. The cast consisted of Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Jason Robards, Jr., Bradforn Dilman and Katherine Ross.  URL:http://www.reelgay.com/NewFiles/march2002/liza/   " CANDIDA " ( First performance of this production was at the Albery Theatre, Thursday 23rd of June 1977 ) CAST in order of their appearance Proserpine  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Maureen Lipman Morell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Denis Quilley Lexy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Simon Jones Burgess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Leslie Sands Candida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Deborah Kerr Marchbanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patrick Ryecart  The Albery Theatre presents DEBORAH KERR DENIS QUILLEY in CANDIDA by George Bernard Shaw with Leslie Sands Maureen Lipman Simon Jones and Patrick Ryecart Directed by Michael Blakemore Designed by Alan Tagg Lighting by Leonard Tucker     ________Scene Play_______________ You don't have to be in the film business to know that Deborah Kerr is frequently described with what is often now an ill-treated word - "nice." This reputation has survived such smouldering films as "FROM HERE TO ETERNITY" and "THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA." But film stars change, like the rest of us, and they aren't necessarily like  the characters they play. It's also a very long time since Deborah played a nun in "BLACK NARCISSUS." I pondered these ideas as I picked my way along the uneven cobbles to the mews house close to Hyde Park, where Deborah's living while appearing in the Peter Ustinov play " Overheard " at London's Theatre royal, Haymarket. I was still mulling them over as I waited among the potted orange and bay trees in the discreet doorway for somone to answer the bell. Having just seen her in "Overheard," in which she plays the wife of an ambassador, played by Ian Carmichael, I wondered how much of a demanding stage role rubs off on the star during its run. But, suddenly, there she was at the top of the stairs, greeting me warmly, and looking extremely elegant in black trousers and cream sweater over a cream and tan silk shirt. Friendly and informal, she settled me in the soft pinks of her elegant, but slightly impersonal, sitting-room. Deborah Kerr was born in Helensburgh, an afternoon's walk from the banks of Loch Lomond. Her father, a design engineer, who had been gassed during the First World War and never really recovered, died when she was 14. "I left Scotland and came to Sussex when I was four, and I'm afraid I've never been back. I haven't really any relations, apart from my younger brother, and an aunt in Bristol. I think my Scottish memories are mostly taken from Mother's photo album." In her teens, Deborah was keen to be a ballet dancer. In fact, her first stage appearance was as a member of the corps de ballet with the Sadler's Wells Company. How had she come to give up dancing, I asked her. "Ballet was the thing that appealed to my generation, just as riding did to my two daughters. They were horse mad. One went in for showjumping when she was nine till she was thirteen. "But as for ballet, I soon had the gumption to realise I wasn't going to be another Margot Fonteyn - oh dear no. I was rather tall, too. I think Beryl Grey is the only really tall ballerina there's been." I wondered if Deborah's daughters had followed her into films or theatre. "Not really," she told me, "though they were brought up in movie studios when I was filming." I thought of  "Separate Tables" and "The King  and I," as she went on. "Francesca did flirt with the idea of being in the business. She was in the production department of 'Nicholas And Alexandra' when they were shooting in Spain, and was able to do some interpreting. I had sent her to Madrid University, and she knew Spanish well. "I think one of the most useful things you can give your children is to see that they learn two or three languages as well as their own. The world today is so violent and worrying, people need to be able to communicate with each other to help sort out its problems.