![]() THE LAST DRAGON, Christopher Murney, Faith Prince, 1985 MY FATHER THE HERO, from left: Gerard Depardieu, Faith Prince, 1994, © Buena Vista Drop Dead Diva, Faith Prince (L), Kurt Fuller (C), Brooke Elliott (R), 'Senti-Mental Journey', Season 2, Ep. Big Bully Photos DAVE, Faith Prince, Sigourney Weaver, 1993, (c)Warner Bros. You can e-mail Chad Jones at or call (925) 416-4853. This, like Prince’s cabaret show, is a slice of musical comedy heaven. Of course Prince ends with her Tony Award-winning Miss Adelaide from “Guys and Dolls” performing the definitive “Adelaide’s Lament.” She’s also a terrific actress - just listen to her mine the depths of Sondheim’s “The Ladies Who Lunch” or “Not While I’m Around.”Īfter hearing Prince sing “If He Walked Into My Life” and “Before the Parade Passes By,” I’m wondering when we’re going to see her headline revivals of “Mame” and “Hello, Dolly!” She’s like Carol Burnett but with a trumpet in her voice instead of a tuba. She may have lost that job, but Prince is having the last laugh, and boy does she like making her audience laugh. If they had heard her sing “Suddenly Seymour” like she does with pianist Alex Rybeck, those Big Blue execs would have bought stock in the show and sent her back to New York. Prince would have originated the role of Audrey in “Little Shop,” but she was in an IBM trade show, and they wouldn’t let her out of the contract. The same is true for “Somewhere That’s Green” from “Little Shop of Horrors.” She finds the sweet laugh and bittersweet pang in every lyric. Then she launches into “What Did I Have That I Don’t Have?” and breaks your heart. To hear Prince tell the story is to hear a master comic at work. Her co-star was Jack “To Reach the Impossible Note” Jones, who completely blanked on the words to his song, “Come Back to Me.” “Not necessarily in that order,” she says.ĭuring her trio of songs from “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,” Prince tells the story of performing at Sacramento’s Music Circus, which used to be theater in the round in a tent. Prince has such a winning personality she could sing anything and make an audience happy, but lucky for all of us, her 70-minute show is 99 percent pure Broadway.Īfter “On the Other Side of the Tracks” from “Little Me,” Prince reveals that she grew up in Lynchburg, Va., home of ChapStick, Fleet Enema and Jerry Falwell. That act finally made its Bay Area debut Tuesday at San Francisco’s Empire Plush Room, where it runs through Sunday. She does film and TV work (she was a regular on Showtime’s “Huff” and was recently in a memorable episode of “Grey’s Anatomy”) and tours with her cabaret act. Now that she’s mother to an 11-year-old son, Prince and her trumpeter husband are based in Los Angeles. ![]() She got her big break in “Jerome Robbins’ Broadway” and her Tony Award for the 1992 revival of “Guys and Dolls.” Still, Prince soldiered on through the ranks of regional theater and summer stock. She would have been Judy Holliday, Vivian Blaine and Nancy Walker all rolled into one.īut Prince, who’s in her late 40s, came of age at the height of the British musical invasion of the ’80s, when a comedienne with a Merman belt and a Lansbury twinkle wasn’t exactly welcome in “Les Miserables” or “The Phantom of the Opera.” It’s true - Prince would have been a huge star in the golden age of Broadway in the 1940s and ’50s. Faith Prince knows exactly who she is: “I think maybe I should have been born 30 years before I was … I’m a musical theater girl, like from the olden days.” ![]()
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