I have long been a fan of Angela Lansbury. I saw her in several Broadway plays and watched her for years on “Murder, She Wrote,” where she was a sleuth in a small town. in whatever genre she performed, she was an icon.
This is the best tribute that I have seen. Seth Rudetsky is the host of the Sirius Broadway channel. He tells the story of a strike that closed down Broadway for 19 days in 2007. That now seems paltry in the wake of COVID, which turned off the lights of Broadway for more than a year.
Please watch the video. It includes wonderful performances by Bernadette Peters and Angela Lansbury and the stars of every big production on Broadway at the time.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Hope you saw essay in yesterday’s NYT op-ed page on Lansbury.
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The woman had a good aura, even when she was playing a diabolical super villain as in The Manchurian Candidate. She was a great actress, up there with the best.
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Yeah, what was it about her? You just knew that this was a great human. What we used to call, when I was younger, “an old soul.” Same with, say, John Lithgow. You can just tell.
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My mother always loved her murder she wrote role, especially how she always viewed the perpetrators with a sort of sad and disappointed disdain.
We are losing so many people of late who have been icons of our time. M as my are very old, hanging on as reminders of an era of excellence.
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Bernadette and Angela! Geniuses!!!
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