Anne and Damian are delighted to be joined by actress, singer, dancer, and director, Sondra Lee. You Might Know Her From original Broadway productions of Peter Pan;  Hello, Dolly!; Hotel Paradiso; High Button Shoes; and Fellini’s La Dolce Vita. Sondra invited us into her penthouse to talk about coaching film directors, working with the mystery that was Carol Channing, collaborating with Jerome Robbins, and wooing moviestar Marlon Brando. Wonderful woman! 

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The “woman” Rescue Ranger was Gadget

Anne’s favorite Survivor players: Shambo Waters, Sandra Diaz-Twine

Sondra Lee’s IBDB & IMDB

Sondra’s book I’ve Slept with Everybody: A Memoir

Sondra Lee as Tiger Lily in the Peter Pan musical (music by Mark "Moose" Charlap, Jule Styne, and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green)

Directed and choreographer by Jerome Robbins 

Mary Martin’s daughter, Heller Halliday, played Liza 

Sondra could have been Anybodys in West Side Story but Arthur Laurents said N-O.

The “Stella” Sondra mentions: actor and iconic acting teacher Stella Adler

Sondra was sick of playing Minnie Fay in Hello, Dolly! for so long

Hello, Dolly! book by Michael Stewart, music and lyrics by Jerry Herman

Directed and choreographed by Gower Champion

Sondra’s Hello, Dolly! castmates: Carol Channing (Dolly), Eileen Brennan (Irene), Charles Nelson Reilly (Cornelius)

Hotel Paradiso with Sondra, Angela Lansbury, and Bert Lahr

Bert Lahr, famously played the Cowardly Lion

Marlon Brando worked with Tallulah Bankhead

“Original Tiger Lily Will Skip NBC’s ‘Peter Pan’” story

Sandra Lee the “chef” and former First Lady of New York (but since this recording Lee and Andrew Cuomo have split)

Actress Sandra Dee

Sondra Lee in Pinocchio

Carol Channing allergic to hair dye 

Italian director and screenwriter Federico Fellini

Sondra Lee’s favorite curse word: Fuck

Dr. Sandra Lee, a.k.a. Dr. Pimple Popper

Eileen Brennan as Mrs. Peacock in Clue