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The Century Play Company at 1440 Broadway was the place of Audrey Wood’s seven-year apprenticeship that followed a childhood of weekend matinees of vaudeville shows and touring productions in New York theaters managed by her father. She was stagestruck at an early age by Weber and Fields’ Dutch act in mock-Germanic accents, by the reenactment of the English derby in The Sporting Life, and by the tribute to the Divine Sarah, seated in a high-back chair while assembled stars paid homage by crowning her with a golden wreath on the stage of Broadway’s Palace Theatre.
To lose a troupe of full-grown elephants is not an easy feat.1
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Barranger, M.S. (2013). Stagestruck. In: Audrey Wood and the Playwrights. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137270603_2
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