Pamela Blair, who originated the role of the surgically enhanced “Valerie Clark” in the Broadway smash A Chorus Line, died Sunday at her home in Phoenix, Arizona, following a lengthy il…
“You are free now Pammie so dance, dance, dance among the stars,” Lee wrote.
Blair’s signature song, a paean to the show-biz benefits of plastic surgery, is perhaps more commonly known as “T&A,” due to its repeated reference to the body parts – explicitly stated – so enhanced. The actual title of the comic song referred to the scores given to the Val character by a Broadway casting director after an audition. “I was ugly, homely, skinny, unattractive and flat as a pancake,” Blair-as-Val said in the song’s introduction. “Get the picture?” The character was loosely based on Blair’s own story, minus the plastic surgery.
She “was a part of the musical from the very first workshop,” tweeted the official account of the lateBlair had already appeared on Broadway inOf Mice and Menthen invited Blair to participate in the creation ofFollowing that show’s success, Blair went on to originate the stage role of “Amber/Angel” in 1978’sandRyan’s Hope, Loving, Another World, Sabrina The Teenage Witch
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