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Theater Talk: Lorna and Nick and Ethel and Tootsie

The Hill Family

Ever optimistic actor activist Lorna C. Hill, who founded Ujima, the longest continuing running theater company in Buffalo, succumbed to cancer, while COVID-19 claimed Broadway star Nick Cordero. In other pandemic related news, Actor's Equity has schedule two shows in Augustin The Berkshires under very strict protocols, Spree magazine's July issue cover what's what, and Shea's has moved the touring (non-Equity, opening in Buffalo) production of TOOTSIE back? up? to December 1, 2020! Keep your season tickets!

As always, to keep up to date, subscribe to Anthony's free blog, theatertalkbuffalo as well as playbill online. Stay safe, wash your hands, and wear a mask, even if you feel that while "We're Havin' A Heat Wave" (from Irving Berlin's AS THOUSANDS CHEEER  and you can hear Ethel Waters in 1933 here) that "It's Too Darn Hot" (hear Ella Fitzgerald sing this Cole Porter KISS ME KATE hithere).

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