Pamela Blair, who originated the position of Val within the musical “A Refrain Line,” has died. She was 73.
Blair died Sunday at dwelling in Phoenix, Arizona, following a prolonged sickness, Deadline reported.
Family and friends took to social media to mourn the “All My Kids” actress, with Blair’s “Refrain Line” co-star Baayork Lee writing: “I’m very unhappy to say my Sagittarian sister Pam Blair has gone to play together with her [‘A Chorus Line’] colleagues among the many clouds.”
In a Fb publish, Lee — who shared a birthday with Blair — continued that the pair “all the time wrote to 1 one other irrespective of the place we had been on that day.”
Lee recalled Blair bringing the “home down each night time” together with her efficiency of “Dance: Ten, Appears to be like: Three” from “Refrain Line.”
“You might be free now Pammie so dance, dance, dance among the many stars,” Lee concluded her publish.
Born in Vermont on Dec. 5, 1949, Blair began her profession as a stage actress and dancer. She made her Broadway debut in 1968’s “Guarantees, Guarantees.”
She continued enjoying ensemble components on Broadway reveals together with “Sugar” and “Seesaw,” earlier than touchdown the one feminine position in “Of Mice and Males,” as Curley’s spouse, in 1974.
Blair was greatest identified for taking part in the unique Val in “A Refrain Line,” a task she helped develop in 1974 after being requested to take part in workshops.
Her character, Valerie Clarke, was loosely based mostly on her personal life, although Val’s love of cosmetic surgery got here from one other dancer.
She famously sings “Dance: Ten, Appears to be like: Three” in regards to the worth of surgical enhancement.
Blair married actor and TV director Don Scardino in 1984. The couple divorced in 1991.
“We’re saddened to listen to that Pamela Blair, the unique ‘Val’ in A Refrain Line, has handed away,” the official account of the late “Refrain Line” composer Marvin Hamlisch tweeted, including that she was “part of the musical from the very first workshop.”
“Our ideas are together with her family members and followers,” the tweet learn.
Blair featured in TV reveals resembling “Ryan’s Hope,” “Loving, One other World,” and “Sabrina The Teenage Witch.”
She acquired a Daytime Emmy nomination in 1987 for her visitor look on “All My Kids.”
Her movie credit embody “Mighty Aphrodite,” directed and written by Woody Allen, “Annie,” and “21 Grams.”