Broadway BUZZ

Angela Lansbury’s 75-year career began at 17 with the movie Gaslight. A recipient of five Tony Awards, an Olivier, six Golden Globes and an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement, her 1957 Broadway debut, Hotel Paradiso, was followed by A Taste of Honey, Anyone Can Whistle, Mame, Dear World, Gypsy, King And I, Sweeney Todd, A Little Family Business and following a 23-year hiatus which included things like Murder She Wrote she returned to Broadway appearing in Deuce, Blithe Spirit, A Little Night Music, and The Best Man. She toured Australia in Driving Miss Daisy, and appeared in a new production of Blithe Spirit in London. Her nearly 70 films include National Velvet, The Harvey Girls, State of the Union, The Court Jester, The Long Hot Summer, The Manchurian Candidate, Death on the Nile, Beauty and the Beast, Anastasia and Nanny McPhee and most recently, Mary Popping Returns. Recipient of the National Medal of the Arts, Kennedy Center Honors, British Academy of Film and Television Arts Silver Mask, she is a Dame Commander of the British Empire.