THE INCOMPARABLE TYNE DALY GRACED US WITH HER WIT LAST NIGHT AT THE GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE IN NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.
THE SERIES IS CALLED "CONVERSATIONS WITH..."
( BY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, DAVID SAINT), AND CAN TYNE DALY CONVERSE!
SHE WAS DELIGHTFUL, A TRUE RECONTEUR AND UPROARIOUSLY FUNNY-SHE DIDN'T MISS A BEAT!
I GOT LUCKY BEING IN ROW B CENTER FOR SO MANY REASONS (THE OBVIOUS BEING THAT I WAS ALMOST ON DALY'S LAP-LOL)
SECONDLY, SITTING IN THE SEAT NEXT TO ME WAS A BEAUTIFUL REDHEADED YOUNG WOMAN. TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER MS. DALY IN "CAGNEY & LACEY" -AND DARE I SAY, EVEN A WEE TOO YOUNG FOR WANTING TO WATCH THE MATURE THEMED TV SHOW MS. DALY WAS IN LAST, "JUDGING AMY". I WAS CURIOUS TO PICK HER BRAIN. MY CURIOSITY PEAKED BECAUSE IT WAS A SEA OF WHITE , GRAY & BLUE HAIRED FOLK-THE MEDIAN AGE BEING 60.
SHE DID REMEMBER HER FROM "JUDGING AMY" BUT SHE WAS ALSO GETTING AN ACTING DEGREE FROM NEARBY RUTGERS UNIVERSITY. THIS WAS PART OF HER STUDIES. I REASSURED HER SHE HAD CHOSEN A GREAT ACTOR TO OBSERVE SINCE DALY HAD WORKED IN EVERY MEDIUM.
I'VE NEVER BEEN SO RIGHT. HEARING TYNE DALY RECOUNT HER ACTING HISTORY WAS A MAJOR EDUCATION TO US ALL IN ATTENDANCE. SHE MADE THE OTHERWISE LACKLUSTER INTERVIEWER METAPHORICALLY DISAPPEAR--SHE HAD FULL CONTROL OF THE STAGE & KNEW HER AUDIENCE. I GET THE FEELING BEING "ON" IS PART OF HER MAKE-UP WITHOUT PRETENSE OR EGO.
DALY'S WARMTH MADE ONE FEEL LIKE SHE WAS TALKING TO US AT SOME INTIMATE DINNER PARTY AND NOT A THEATER. IT'S THIS UNPRETENTIOUS WARMTH THAT SEEPS THROUGH ALL HER CHARACTERS-ESPECIALLY IN HER TONY AWARD WINNING PERFORMANCE AS MAMA ROSE IN "GYPSY" ( MY FAVORITE ROSE TO DATE-I SAW IT , TRANSFIXED, TWICE- I STILL PREFER THE SOUNDTRACK TO ANY OTHER).
BESIDES A TONY SHE HAS A TON OF EMMYS & OTHER ACCOLADES.
"CONVERSATIONS WITH..." ALLOWS A Q& A. SEGMENT- ONE GUESS WHO ASKED A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS?
I ASKED WHY WITH ALL THIS WIT & HUMOR SHE WASN'T THINKING OF DOING A ONE WOMAN SHOW, I EVEN GAVE HER A WORKING TITLE "AFTER ROSE"-SHE CHUCKLED, I , ON THE OTHER HAND, WET MY PANTS! TO PARAPHRASE SHE SAYS SHE'S A WORKER AMONG WORKERS LIKE HER PARENTS WERE (BOTH WERE ACTORS-HER DAD WAS JAMES DALY FROM THE SERIES, "MEDICAL CENTER". HER MOTHER ACTED TILL SHE BECAME A STAY AT HOME MOM). WE ALL KNOW HER SUPREMELY HANDSOME BROTHER, JIM DALY FROM "WINGS" AND OTHER WORKS-OF WHICH SHE LOVINGLY SPOKE AS WELL- "JIMMY TO HER.
SHE SAYS SHE DOES LOVE TO LAUGH & MAKE OTHERS LAUGH AND CASUALLY REFERRED TO HERSELF AS A "LAUGH WHORE"--BRILLIANT. SHE LIKES INTERACTING WITH OTHER ACTORS , IT'S HER COMFORT LEVEL
MY FOLLOW-UP QUESTION WAS REGARDING THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME "TYNE". SHE SAYS IT'S A FAMILY NAME & SHE IS ONE OF ONLY TWO TYNES (OFFERING A BRIEF LORE ABOUT THE ORIGIN SHE'S HEARD FROM HER FAMILY).
SHE MADE ME HOWL WHEN SHE SAID, "MY FIRST NAME IS ELLEN BUT THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO CALL ME ELLEN IS THE I R S.
KUDOS TO A MAGNIFICENT LADY WHO I THOUGHT I COULDN'T LOVE MORE--BUT I DO!
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