Patricia Routledge

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Patricia Routledge, CBE (born 17 February 1929) has had a prolific career in theatre, particularly musical theatre, in the UK and the US.[1] Her West End credits include Little Mary Sunshine, Cowardy Custard, Virtue in Danger, Noises Off, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Solid Gold Cadillac, as well as a number of less successful vehicles. Routledge made her Broadway debut in the short-lived 1968 musical Darling of the Day, for which she won a Tony Award as Best Actress in a Musical, sharing the honour with Leslie Uggams of Hallelujah, Baby!. Following Darling of the Day, Routledge had roles in several more unsuccessful Broadway productions including a musical called Love Match, in which she played Queen Victoria; the legendary 1976 Leonard Bernstein flop, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, in which she portrayed every First Lady from Abigail Adams to Eleanor Roosevelt; and a 1981 musical called Say Hello to Harvey, based on the Mary Coyle Chase play Harvey, which closed in Toronto before reaching New York. In 1980, Routledge played Ruth in the Joseph Papp production of The Pirates of Penzance co-starring American actor Kevin Kline and pop vocalist Linda Ronstadt, at the Delacorte Theatre in New York City's Central Park, one of the series of Shakespeare in the Park summer events. The show was a hit and transferred to Broadway the following January, but Estelle Parsons replaced Routledge. A DVD of the Central Park production, with Routledge, was released in October 2002. She

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Talking Heads

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Talking Heads 2

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Cowardy Custard (Original London Festival Cast Recording)

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An Evening With Alan Jay Lerner

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Cowardy Custard

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Darling of the Day (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

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An Evening With Alan Jay Lerner (Highlights)

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Tom Kitten And Friends

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Little Mary Sunshine (The Original West End Cast)

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Darling of the Day

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Patricia Routledge

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