It was announced this week that Broadway and television veteran, and Tony Award-winning actress Edie Adams died at the age of 87 (some sources say she was 85). Ms. Adams appeared once in my Year, in the role of the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, where she was also featured in one of the DVD extras. Ms. Adams originated two important musical roles on Broadway--Eileen in Wonderful Town (to Rosalind Russell as sister Ruth), and Daisy Mae in Li'l Abner, for which Ms. Adams received a Tony Award.
While those two shows were Ms. Adams's only Broadway credits, she had an active film and television career and was famously married to comedian Ernie Kovacs. She also had a recording career that played up her sex kitten image (as the album cover in this entry shows).
I was surprised to read in one of the obituaries for her, that Ms. Adams trained as an opera singer at the Juilliard School. Not that she didn't have a pleasant singing voice, but it didn't strike me at all as operatic. But then this was the day when all singers got training, no matter what style of music they ended up performing.
Would that all Broadway singers had to go through some real singing training.
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