Meanwhile, the show that would become the Broadway juggernaut Annie was taking shape. "Most people think I'm retired - or dead," Loudon told an interviewer in early 1977.
That was undoubtedly true, although Paris had troubles - health problems, tax problems - that consumed a lot of time and worry. "I was never so happy in my life," she said of these years, after they were over for good. Loudon plunged into domesticity: cooking, cleaning, sewing, staying home. Increasingly, her focus was on her husband, the composer-arranger Norman Paris, whom she had married in 1971. She turned down television offers that would have taken her to Los Angeles. She had enjoyed more success touring - Paul Zindel's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, in 1971-1972, had been her favorite stage role - but Loudon was tired of the road, and hated leaving New York. The Women, in 1973, was the last of a half-dozen promising Broadway shows (if you count Lolita, My Love, which never quite made it to New York) that closed in less than three months. Loudon, by the mid-1970s, had gone into a semi-voluntary semi-retirement.
0 kommentar(er)
