The Importance of Being Earnest Playbill, March 25-April 19, 1986
Cast
TAMMY GRIMES (Lady Bracknell) has an extensive career spanning
theatre, television, film and recordings. She has starred in the New York productions
of High Spirits, California Suite, Look After Lulu, The Cradle Will Rock, Bus
Stop, Tartuffe, A Month in the Country, The Waltz of The Toreadors, Paducah, and
42nd Street. Ms Grimes won the Tony Award for Best Musical Comedy Actress
for her portrayal of Molly in The Unsinkable Molly Brown and for Best Dramatic
Actress for Amanda in Private Lives. She has appeared in the title role of
Molly by Simon Gray as Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit, and toured with
the national company of The Lark. Her Shakespearean roles include Mistress
Quickly in Henry IV, Part One, Mopsa in The Winter's Tale, and Kate
in Taming of The Shrew. Her wide-ranging experience in television and film
includes her own ABC television series and the made-for-television movie You Can't
Go Home Again and such films as The Runner Stumbles and Somebody Killed
Her Husband. Ms. Grimes has recorded numerous albums including Tammy Grimes,
The Unsinkable Tammy Grimes, the cast albums of High Spirits and The
Unsinkable Molly Brown, and all of Maurice Sendaks works for Caedmon records.
She has performed throughout the country in a one-woman show created by Richard Jameson-Bell.