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Broadway to Dim Its Lights for Bea Arthur
By Dave
Itzkoff
The marquees of Broadway theaters will be dimmed for one minute on Tuesday at
8:00pm in honor of Bea Arthur, who died
on Saturday. She was 86.
In 1966, Ms. Arthur won a Tony Award for best featured actress in a musical
for her performance as Vera Charles in the original Broadway production of “Mame.” Her other Broadway
credits include “Plain and Fancy,” “Seventh Heaven” and “Nature’s Way;” she also
played Yente the Matchmaker in the original 1964 production of “Fiddler
on the Roof”Woody
Allen’s 1981 play “The
Floating Lightbulb.” Her one-woman show “Bea
Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends” was nominated for Tony in
2002. and appeared in