METROPOLITAN ROOM EXTENDS "MISS TAMMY GRIMES"
Tammy Grimes lights up THE METROPOLITAN ROOM (34 West 22nd Street,
NYC - 212-206-0440 -
http://www.metropolitanroom.com/
) for two additional shows: Thursday & Friday, April 19th &
20th at 8:00 pm of her show "Miss Tammy Grimes." In this show the
two-time Tony winner intersperses songs from her Broadway career with
an eclectic mix of songs from others composers such as Jimmy Buffet,
Tom Waits and Noel Coward.
Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Tammy attended high school
at the then-all girls school, Beaver Country Day School, in Chestnut
Hill, Massachusetts. She attended Stephens College in Missouri,
and then studied acting at New York City's prestigious Neighborhood
Playhouse. Grimes made her debut on the New York stage in May of
1955 in Jonah and the Whale. In 1956, she appeared in the off-Broadway
production, The Littlest Revue , and had the lead role in the 1959
Noel Coward play Look After Lulu.
She starred in the 1960 musical comedy The Unsinkable
Molly Brown for which she won a Tony Award. In 1966, Grimes starred
in her own television show, The Tammy Grimes Show, as a present-day
character based on Molly Brown, but it ran for only a month, although
an additional six episodes had already been made; ironically, she
had turned down the part of "Samantha" on Bewitched for which she
had had right of first refusal.
During her career, she spent several seasons at the
Stratford Festival of Canada in Stratford, Ontario and has appeared
in a number of television series and motion pictures. Grimes has
also entertained at various New York city night clubs and recorded
several albums of songs. Her voice can be heard in romantic duets
on some of Ben Bagley's anthology albums of Broadway songs under
his Painted Smiles record label. In 1982, she hosted the final season
CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Ms. Grimes was inducted into the (American)
Theater Hall of Fame in 2003.
There is a $35 cover, 2-beverage minimum.
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