From the first note of “Rose of Washington Square,” you know you are in the presence of a Broadway legend. Now taking stage in this intimate club setting, Tammy Grimes, two-time Tony award winning actress for the musical “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” (1961) and for Noel Coward’s “Private Lives” (1970) is taking her illustrious career to a new phase. “I’ve got no future but oh what a past,” she intones, and you know this is no idle lyric.
Channeling the spirit of her husband (since 1971), the arranger/composer Richard Bell, and accompanied on piano by Dennis Bock, she sings wit-charged melodies: Kander and Ebb’s “You Gotta Ring Them Bells” (what a girl has to do to get out there), “Martha” (by Tom Waits), “He Went to Paris” (by Jimmy Buffett), “More Than One Man in her Life,” “I’ll Never Say No to You,” “Can’t Help Loving That Man of Mine,” “The Snake,” “You Better Love Me While You May,” Noel Coward’s “If Love Were All,” “I Ain’t Down Yet;” and she told stories. When she met Gower Champion, he said, too bad you can’t dance. She replied, “Maybe so, but I’m a great mover.”
On Wednesday night The Metropolitan Room was packed with fans and friends: among them Academy Award winning actress Patricia Neal, biographer Patricia Bosworth, Joan Rivers, Rex Reed, and George Ross, husband of her Chestnut Hill school chum Anne.
About that past: As one of her stories goes, Marlon Brando had taken her to see the play “The Dark is Light Enough” when one actor, Christopher Plummer, caught her eye. (She was married to him, briefly, in 1956.) But what about Brando?!!! “Well, that was just an apprentice dating a star.” Of all the projects in her distinguished career she loved best “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”—she also thought Kathy Bates playing this character in “Titanic” was marvelous—and the Turgenev play, “A Month in the Country” in which she starred with her daughter Amanda Plummer. As to her late husband Richard Bell, “Oh, I spoke to him tonight.”
My only quibble with this wonderful evening is that I wanted more. Fortunately, Tammy Grimes will perform again on April 12 at The Metropolitan Room.
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