But I went back to Lynchburg two years ago to do a seminar for the women's club down there, I walked into the Arts Center and the smell hit me: Boom, fifth grade." This makes me think that Mr. I remember being hooked on the smell of the theater - that's a cliche, I know. But I put a lot of feeling behind it, and a lot of emotion, if" - here is where Miss Faith Prince gives out with a demure little giggle - "you can think of that with 'Happy Birthday.' And I got the part and my friend didn't. I sang 'Happy Birthday,' because I didn't really know anything else. I was in the church choir, but I don't think I went around the house singing. But somebody asked me if I could sing - and I could, sort of. A friend of mine was going to audition for 'The King and I,' and I went just to support her, not to audition. "They did really great shows there, very high quality, and a lot of the people in town were very talented. "My first recollection of performing is from the Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, when I was in fifth grade," she says. It happens I am from Virginia myself, so naturally I am as pleased as punch to learn that Miss Faith Prince thinks her present success is due in no small part to her home town, said home town being solid on the idea that healthy doses of the Higher Things heavy and regular are just the thing for a growing kid. All this is by way of saying that, although she may be from a small town, any rock landing on the potato of Miss Faith Prince these days - her earlier credits include off-off-Broadway showcases, soap operas, commercials and the occasional walk-on in a kung fu movie - has missed the odds on misty-eyed hopefulness by a good seven months. She occasionally has a photographer or two or three claw each other out of the way for the angle. She has a Tony (which is named after a doll, so go figure). Even Tough Frank Rich wrote in the New York Times, a local paper, that said performance provided "the rare sighting of a brand-new musical comedy star," and Tough Frank Rich is known to one and all here as a tight boy with a rave indeed. "Guys and Dolls" opened in April, since when reviewers have been busy piling on the adjectives for Miss Faith Prince's performance, "howlingly funny," "classic" and "triumphant" being three her press agent can remember if you give him a minute to think about it, or maybe a little less. Damon Runyon of Manhattan, a small town in Kansas. Frank Loesser dealing with characters created by Mr. Miss Faith Prince is a tall, 35-year-old, auburn-haired drink of water hailing from Lynchburg, Va., and she is currently wowing them big as the well-known fiancee Miss Adelaide in "Guys and Dolls," the blockbuster revival of the 1950 musical by Mr. These thoughts arise, however, as I am sitting, an activity of which I am fond, backstage at the Martin Beck Theatre in the dressing room of Miss Faith Prince. Naturally, I do not recommend throwing rocks in any circumstances whatsoever, since many citizens tend to take offense at same, particularly the ones hit by the rocks. NEW YORK - If a guy throws a rock in this town he is less likely to hit a native New Yorker than he is to land the beaner on a misty-eyed, hopeful adolescent from some place like Keokuk, Iowa, or Kenosha, Wis., who has recently decided that musical-comedy stardom, bright lights, the adulation of thousands and having photographers claw each other out of the way for the angle as they stroll down Broadway beat staying at home and listening to the cows moo.
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