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 at the Historic Elitch Theatre in the 1982 tour of Lunch Hour.
Seasons at the Theatre
- 1982
Productions/Roles:
- 1982 – Lunch Hour as Carrie
Notable Roles, Awards, and Other Work:
- Her film debut and breakthrough role came as Jacy Farrow in Peter Bogdanovich’s coming-of-age drama The Last Picture Show (1971)
- She also had roles as Kelly in Elaine May’s The Heartbreak Kid (1972), Betsy in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976), and Nancy in Woody Allen’s Alice (1990).
Elitch Theatre Connections:
- The Last Picture Show starred three Elitch Theatre Alum: Shepherd, Timothy Bottoms, and Cloris Leachman.
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