Marcia Lewis
Marcia Lewis ( born August 8, 1938 in Melrose, Massachusetts, † December 21, 2010 in Brentwood, Tennessee) was an American actress and singer.
Life
Lewis was the daughter of Edwin Parker and his wife Bernice ( Lamb) Lewis. She grew up in Cincinnati in the U.S. state of Ohio. In 1959 she earned a degree as a state - registered nurse ( Registered Nurse ) at the Jewish Hospital School of Nursing in Cincinnati. As a nurse, she worked at the Hospital of the University of Cincinnati ( The University of Cincinnati Hospital) and at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
Lewis made her Broadway debut in the season 1969/1970, when she in the musical Hello, Dolly! took over the role of Ernestina; their partners were Phyllis Diller and Richard Deacon. Self on Broadway as Miss Hannigan they had in the musical Annie (1981-1983), as Rachel Halpern in the short-lived musical Rags on the side of Teresa Stratas (1986 ) and 1990/ 1991 as wife Golde in the revival of Fiddler on the Roof, in the Topol was her partner. In other productions she played the gold also on the side of Theodore Bikel and Nehemiah Persoff.
Other Broadway successes were particularly their roles as altjüngerliche English teacher and headmistress Miss Lynch in the musical Grease (1994-1998) and from November 1996 as Mama Morton in the Broadway reopening of the musicals Chicago. In the latter Musical she excelled especially with the song When You're Good to Mama, where she told the inmates the rules of the women's prison, and in the duet class, in which she lamented the vulgarity of the world together with the murderess Velma Kelly. Most recently, she appeared in 2006 in the role on Broadway. She also played the role of Miss Schneider in the musical Cabaret, among others, in a touring production with Joel Grey.
In addition to her musical roles Lewis also took several dramatic roles in the spoken theater, including 1969 Lorene in the comedy The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan, 1989, the suspicious nurse Miss Porter in Orpheus descends by Tennessee Williams (on the side of Vanessa Redgrave ) as well as roles in several off-Broadway productions.
Lewis received two nominations for the Tony Awards, each in the category "Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical" for her roles in the musicals Grease and Chicago. In addition, she was nominated twice for the Drama Desk Award in the category "Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical" for her roles in Chicago and Rags.
As singer Lewis also appeared in various cabarets and clubs in Manhattan, including Rainbow & Stars, Upstairs at the Duplex, Upstairs at the Downstairs, Grande Finale, Reno Sweeney's, Freddy's Eighty- Eights, Town Hall, The Village Gate and the Russian Tea Room. With a one-woman show, she gave a concert at Carnegie Hall. They also released a solo CD, Marcia Lewis Nowadays.
Since the 1970s, Lewis also took over some film and television roles, mainly in TV movies and television series, including rich and poor, Baretta, Who's Watching the Kids and Good Time Girls.
Private
Lewis has been married twice. In 1966 she married Richard Alan Woody; They were divorced in 1990. His second wife Lewis was married to financial adviser Fred D. Bryan since June 2001. Lewis was suffering from lung cancer and brain cancer. Lewis died at her home in Brentwood, a suburb of Nashville.