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Marilyn Wallace
Having been born and raised in Cleveland
Ohio, it is no wonder that I began my theatrical career in the Cleveland Museum
of Art as a French fly (in a cage) at the tender age of five. From there things
could only improve, and improve they did, when I was entrusted with all male roles
in productions at Lake Erie College for Women in Painesville, Ohio. From this
rather confusing background as actress/actor, I turned in desperation to opera
and operetta where at last, so I thought, I could do something constructive.
Roles such as Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Magda Sorel (Menotti’s
Consul) and Lisa (Lehar’s
Land of Smiles) came and went, one day, due to my loud -excuse me-
"well produced" speaking voice, I was asked to play Lady Bracknel in The
Importance of Being Earnest for a school tour in Austria. From there I
advanced to such roles as Winnie (Happy Days), Martha (Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf), Annie Wilkes (Stephen Kings Misery), Carrie Watts (Trip
to Bountiful), Daisy Wertham (Driving Miss Daisy), Mrs. Boyle (The
Mousetrap) and last but certainly not least Christmas Present and Mrs.Dilbur
in A Christmas Carol.
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