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Rita Gardner performs at the Oscar Hammerstein Award Event with Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt
Rita Gardner Sings “Time Goes By” at 54 Below
Rita had the pleasure of performing “Time Goes By” from the musical Grover’s Corner by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt. Watch the full performance below:
The performance was part of the evening “Broadway Bound 2: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway” at 54 Below.
Rita Gardner Interview on “Behind the Curtain” Podcast
Rita was interviewed on the Behind the Curtain: Broadway’s Living Legend podcast. You can listen to the episode below:
Here is the description from the Behind the Curtain website:
In a career that spans sixty years, Rita Gardner is the epitome of the word “legend”. While she is best known to audiences as The Girl in The Fantasticks, or as the hip hopping Grandma in The Wedding Singer, Rita’s career has gone from radio to television to theatre to cabaret and now to podcast!
Rita joins Rob & Kevin to discuss such topics as what it was like debuting The Fantasticks, standing by for legends like Barbara Harris, Linda Lavin, and Constance Towers, and how she has quickly become one of the world’s greatest cabaret artists.