Summary
Writing the other day about Brooke Shields' cabaret debut, led me to think of my friend, the late Dixie Carter. Our Dixie cemented a circuitous career with the sitcom "Designing Women" -- as the fiery Julia Sugarbaker. She would then go on to such triumphs as off- Broadway's "Pal Joey," and Broadway's "Master Class," taking over for Zoe Caldwell in the Terrence McNally play about Maria Callas.
But the essence of Dixie -- if you didn't have the pleasure of knowing her personally -- was to see her cabaret act at the Cafe Carlyle. She was always accompanied onstage by composer John Wallowitch, and performed many of his songs. She was saucy, sexy, wise and moving. When she sat on the piano, her slit skirt showing an impossible length of shapely leg, every woman sighed with envy and every man leaned forward.See the full content of this document
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Just Missin' Dixie
Dixie was a fixture at the Carlyle for a number of years, until suddenly she wasn't. During a long conversation I ...
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