Nancy Walker (1980)

Nancy Walker premiered on Broadway in 1952 as Gladys Bumps in Pal Joey. While she may be best remembered as Rhoda’s mother (and some may remember her as the ‘Don’t […]

Patrick Cassidy (1991)

Patrick Cassidy starred at the theatre in The Robber Bridegroom in 1991. This was the 100-year Anniversary of the theatre and it was the final production at the theatre before […]

Vincent Price (1979)

Despite having appeared on the stage throughout his career, Vincent Price’s greatest theatrical triumph was undoubtedly his 1977 one-man show, Diversions & Delights, in which he played the playwright and […]

Darren McGavin (1964)

Darren McGavin’s career spanned from the 1950’s TV series, Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, to 1983s cult-classic film, A Christmas Story, to his 1990 Emmy Award-winning role on Murphy Brown. In […]

Cyril Ritchard (1964)

Cyril Ritchard is best known as Captain Hook in the 1955 Mary Martin production of Peter Pan, for which he won the Tony Award. Shortly before he died, Ritchard provided […]

Cybill Shepherd (1982)

Ten years after her breakthrough in The Last Picture Show — and three years before the TV show with which she is probably most-closely associated, Moonlighting — Cybill Shepherd appeared […]

Cloris Leachman (1983)

Cloris Leachman is a versatile actress who absorbs the challenges of any new play. She claims to have loved every role she has played. And the Denver audiences loved her. […]

Christina Crawford (1967)

One of our very favorite alumni — Christina Crawford! Her first visit to the Historic Elitch Theatre was in 1967 in the show Sunday in New York, and then in […]

Charles Nelson Reilly (1978)

While Charles Nelson Reilly may be known to many as a frequent gameshow panelist, to the Historic Elitch Theatre he is known as the Director who brought Julie Harris’ Tony-winning […]

Cesar Romero (1964)

While Cesar Romero played the “Latin lover” in many films, and he even appeared on the nighttime soap opera, Falcon Crest, many will know him from his two-year run as […]

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