A Broadway Theatergoer for Nine Decades

Muriel Mandell saw her first Broadway play in 1939 (“It was rah-rah America”) and her most recent in the season just past (“Terrible”) — and many of the original productions of landmark Broadway shows in-between, such as “A Glass Menagerie” (“We were all blown away”)

Two videos below, one of her reminiscing over this Memorial Day Weekend, on her way to her great grandchildren’s birthday party, and the other one, nine years ago, reviewing the shows of that season.

Author: New York Theater

Jonathan Mandell is a 3rd generation NYC journalist, who sees shows, reads plays, writes reviews and sometimes talks with people.

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