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Nancy Linder's Stage Scrapbook

My Fair Lady

In the summer of 1982, Nancy Linder starred in Lerner and Loewe's "My Fair Lady" at the Timber Lake Playhouse in Mount Carroll, Illinois. The production, which ran from June 30 to July 11th of that year, featured Nancy as Eliza Doolittle, cockney girl turned proper English Lady. Of her performance, Nelson Magill of the Mount Carroll Mirror Democrat said, "Miss Linder is a joy to watch: she is attractive, has a lovely voice and uses it well, and can act as well as sing. Orchestra, go easy on her solos: we want to hear every note."

Based on George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" .this musical set in London in 1912 is about a bet made by the refined and cultured Henry Higgins character that within six months he can transform a poor cockney flower "loidy uwe wants to wuhk in a fancy flower shop" into someone who can pass for a duchess. The musical features the songs "Rain in Spain", "I Could Have Danced All Night", "On the Street Where You Live", and "Loverly." The Mt. Carroll Daily Gazette said, "Nancy Linder gave a superb performance. She draws sympathy from the audience, which is as it should be."

The King and I

In the winter of 1991, Nancy Linder starred in Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The King and I" at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in L.A. The production featured Nancy as Anna Leonowens, a widowed English schoolteacher who travelled to Siam with her son, Louis, to teach the royal children the ways of Western culture. The show is based on a 1944 novel by Margaret Landon called "Anna and The King of Siam" which recounts a true story of a period of Siamese history in the early 1860's. The show features the songs "I Whistle a Happy Tune", "Hello, Young Lovers", "Getting to Know You" and "Shall We Dance?" among others. Clynell Jackson co-stars as The King with music provided by the Hancock Park Light Opera Co. (featuring violinist Bobby Korda who collaborates with Nancy 7 years later on her CD Songs of the Jewish Spirit).