Brief
Life is so damned short.
I'm totally cold - my hands, arms, right down my back to my feet. I just heard that Wendy Wasserstein has passed away at Sloan Kettering Cancer center. Her plays figured very significantly in my life - Uncommon Women & Others was the first play I ever directed when I was in college. I'm just stunned. I met her once, it was a wonderful moment for me. Apparently she'd been ill for a long time - she was only 55.
Her daughter, Lucy Jane, was born in 1999 - she's younger than Maxie - god bless that little girl.
I'm totally cold - my hands, arms, right down my back to my feet. I just heard that Wendy Wasserstein has passed away at Sloan Kettering Cancer center. Her plays figured very significantly in my life - Uncommon Women & Others was the first play I ever directed when I was in college. I'm just stunned. I met her once, it was a wonderful moment for me. Apparently she'd been ill for a long time - she was only 55.
Her daughter, Lucy Jane, was born in 1999 - she's younger than Maxie - god bless that little girl.
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Hi.
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Jodi
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What a shock. She is a wonderful writer and good person from what I've read and seen.
Good blessings on her daughter.
OH MY GAWD. I had no idea. You gotta warn us when you're gonna hit us with something like that. My cubicle-mate actually asked me if I was okay (I gasped - audibly.) That is so sad. I read one of her books and became a great fan before I realized she was the great playwright. Amazing woman. She always "got it". Poor Lucy Jane - a year younger than my wee Monkeygurl. Positive thought vibes out to her and her family.
I wept when I heard the news.
My brother-in-law knew her and he's devastated.
It's just so sad. She was way too young to die and her poor daughter is way too young to have to deal with such a loss.
My thoughts and prayers are with her family and loved ones.
I played Carter in a production of Uncommon Women. I adore that girl to this day. It's been nearly ten years since and I still think of bits from that play as I learn more from life and thus more what the play was about.
Wow. So sad.
Oh no, that is so sad.
Just found this blog (I was surfing from one knitting site to another) and have to comment... I've been reading articles on Wendy for a few days now and weeping. I'm not in the theater and I never met Wendy, but I saw "Uncommon Women" on PBS when I was in junior high, I think, or high school, and it made a HUGE impression on me. Saw "The Heidi Chronicles" on TV and "An American Daughter" on B'way or Lincoln Center or wherever it was, but nothing could match the impact on me of "Uncommon Women."
In this increasingly scary world, it's overwhelmingly sad to lose a precious person like Wendy.
Karen
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