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From her 1976 appearance in West Springfield, Massachusetts, at the Storrowton Music Theater in Show Boat:
Show Boat
closed the 1976 summer season at the Storrowton Theatre in West Springfield,
Massachusetts. Sam Hoffman of the Springfield Daily News reviewed
the play:
Miss Blyth has
lost none of her beautiful lyric soprano voice or any of her beauty. She
is a delight to see and to hear…Miss Blyth not only sings [the songs] for all
their worth, she is capable of giving each a dramatic touch.
Magnolia just
never looked as beautiful or was in finer voice than Miss Blyth.
Here Jay Garner
filled in for an ill Andy Devine as Cap’n Andy, and Ed Evanko played Gaylord
Ravenal. In a follow-up article, Mr.
Hoffman confessed his admiration for Ann Blyth was a torch he’d been carrying
for some time.
…I remember her
lovely lyric soprano voice that seemed to float right out of the screen in my
direction. I always managed to blot out the male star to make sure it was
me she was singing to and not someone else.
I was even a bit
jealous when she upped and married a doctor for Ann Blyth has always been one
of my favorite screen stars, someone I didn’t particularly care to share with
another person.
He also noted in his
interview with her, that she hoped to get in some tennis before the Thursday
evening show.
Where do you suppose she played tennis? Think she won?
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Where do you suppose she played tennis? Think she won?
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