Debbie Reynolds | What a glorious feelin’!

Ian Horner
Updated December 29 2016 - 6:17pm, first published 6:13pm
HOLLYWOOD GOLD | Debbie Reynolds.

Ian Horner spoke to Debbie Reynolds before the opening of the Sydney stage version of Singin' in the Rain earlier this year. It would prove to be among her final interviews. Debbie, 84, died this morning following a stroke. Her daugher, actor-writer Carrie Fisher died the day before, at 60, of heart failure.

In this interview Debbie talks about a brilliant career which owed everything, of her own admission, to that greatest movie musical of all time. She was speaking from her home in LA, where she lived next door to Carrie Fisher.

Singin’ in the Rain is without doubt the greatest movie musical of all time. It was a natural to become a stage musical, not only for its theatrical story and magnificent production numbers but also because of its staging – the biggest numbers take place before a theatre audience so the live theatre audience easily becomes part of the show, like A Chorus Line and Chicago.

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Ian Horner

Ian Horner

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Editor of Fairfield Champion and Liverpool Champion, in South-West Sydney.

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