15 celebrities I've seen in live performance

[vaneramos]

On the way home somebody on the radio mentioned Jack Benny playing violin, and this list came to mind. Most of this cultural exposure is thanks to my parents. More than half these people are dead, and the most recent performance was No. 13 in 1990. No particular order here.

1. Jack Benny (playing violin with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra)
2. Bob Hope (same evening)
3. Maggie Smith (as Lady Macbeth!!!!!)
4. Yule Brynner (as the King of Siam)
5. Vincent Price (as Oscar Wilde in a monologue)
6. Isaac Stern (performing Beethoven's Violin Concerto)
7. Arthur Fiedler
8. Kenny Rogers
9. The Beach Boys
10. Jessye Norman (singing Wagner)
11. Jessica Tandy (as Titania)
12. Hume Cronyn (as Nick Bottom)
13. Buffy Sainte-Marie
14. Michael Rudy (performing Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto)
15. Perry Como

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[fr-defenestrato.livejournal.com]

3. Maggie Smith (as Lady Macbeth!!!!!)

I am positively chartreuse.

I just saw Kathleen Turner as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? She was wonderful, but the poor woman had a coughing fit in Act 3, just before her "recitation" about "our son"... it went on and on and on and the whole audience just wanted to cry for her.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Yes, I saw that performance by Maggie Smith about 30 years ago. I didn't know who she was, but her performance was incredibly sinister, unforgettable.