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Page 6 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Friday, January 25, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY “I always knew my best work would be PRAYER TIME Fajr 5.00am in my later years” Shorooq (sunrise) 6.20am Zuhr (noon) 11.46am Asr (afternoon) 2.51pm – Betty Buckley, American actress and singer Maghreb (sunset) 5.15pm Isha (night) 6.45pm USEFUL NUMBERS Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444 Humanitarian Services Offi ce (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 Qatar Airways 40253374 ote Unquo Qu te “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.” — Rumi When work comes, train, train, train. That was my life until I gave myself the gift of this ranch Community Editor Kamran Rehmat and these horses. My work now is actually to e-mail: [email protected] support that. It’s given me a different point of Telephone: 44466405 view. I don’t feel like I have anything to prove Fax: 44350474 ‘ ’ Friday, January 25, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 COVER STORY COMMUNITY never saw her performance. By Charles McNulty Was Dolly one of those iconic roles she wanted to conquer before it was too late? Buckley, less averse ime catches everyone to talking about age than ambition, by surprise. For Betty sidestepped the question. She is Buckley, the rude an older Dolly, but the character awakening happened has been famously performed by when director Michael actors as young as Barbra Streisand TWilson called to say he was planning in the 1969 movie and as old as a revival of the musical Grey Gardens. Carol Channing during her last tour. She had assumed he was off ering Something else was making her her the part of middle-aged Little uncomfortable. Edie. But instead he was calling about “The idea of being compared Big Edie, who deep into her dotage to all these famous Dollys wasn’t in the second act, bickers with her particularly appealing to consider,” eccentric daughter amid the genteel she admitted. “But fortunately Jerry squalor of the family’s crumbling gave me the fl exibility to bring what estate in the Hamptons. I could while staying true to what he In the same year, Buckley was created, and hopefully I’m delivering off ered a guest role on the HBO on that.” comedy Getting On. It was a choice Buckley is nothing if not respectful part – for a veteran character actress of Broadway tradition. She paid unafraid of showing her mileage. tribute to Channing, the original Though proud to have played Broadway Dolly who died this month, these parts, Buckley, 71, waggishly in a heartfelt curtain speech when described this period as a “shocking the tour moved to San Diego. But she coming of age.” acknowledged that the highly public “I didn’t realize I had transitioned SCENE STEALER: Betty Buckley is a scene stealer as Gran’ma on the AMC horror series Preacher. casting travails of Sunset Boulevard, into an older actress. Fortunately, I centered on Close and LuPone, left a always knew my best work would be debut as the gym teacher in Brian De stopping moment doing Steam Heat many recordings marrying “jazz few scars. in my later years.” Palma’s Carrie opened the door to in authentic Fosse-style at the school interpretation with musical theatre Part of a Broadway triumvirate Her intuition is turning out to be Eight Is Enough. Playing a country talent show that revealed her future storytelling,” but her absence from with LuPone and Bernadette Peters, correct. Buckley was still riding high and western star in the 1983 Bruce as an 11 o’clock number specialist; Broadway is curious. Buckley said the comparisons from playing Gran’ma on Season 3 Beresford fi lm Tender Mercies allowed her landing in New York and being But Buckley’s geography has with her peers used to get to her of the AMC series Preacher. (“The her to show both sides of her talent. immediately cast as Martha Jeff erson changed. After 9/11, she sold her even though she knew they were character is a voodoo sorceress with But it’s on stage where her gifts have in 1776, a magical moment that felt as New York apartment and bought a “meritless, because in the arts, unlike major skills, a really complicated evil been most potently deployed. though her life were being scripted by small ranch in Texas, where she rides in athletic competition, there’s not a character, right within my bailiwick,” Buckley’s luminous rendition a Broadway-besotted screenwriter. horses and rescues animals. standard by which you can calculate a she said.) She touted the box offi ce of Memory in Andrew Lloyd The next day at the hotel, she “Till I moved to the ranch 15 years score.” Getting older has allowed her success of M. Night Shyamalan’s Webber’s Cats enshrined a place was more forthcoming about the ago, it was study, study, study,” she to let go of some of that. 2016 thriller Split, in which she for her in musical theatre history. vicissitudes of her professional said. “When work comes, train, train, “I watched Patti in ‘Penny earned plaudits for her portrayal of a (She won a featured actor Tony career. Buckley said she’s proud of train. That was my life until I gave Dreadful.’ She was ... phenomenal,” therapist treating a dangerous patient for her performance as Grizabella, her “eclectic” resume and wants myself the gift of this ranch and these she said, punctuating her point with with multiple personality disorder. the feline whose faded glamour is to keep working. When I expressed horses. My work now is actually to an expletive. “So I started emailing And then of course there’s recalled in soaring song.) Replacing surprise at learning that she hasn’t support that. It’s given me a diff erent her. Her skill set is remarkable. I went the reason the two of us were Patti LuPone in London and then been back on Broadway since point of view. I don’t feel like I have backstage to see her at ‘War Paint.’ in Scottsdale, chatting at the Glenn Close in New York as Norma Triumph of Love ended in 1998, she anything to prove.” We’ve grown up together. And we’ve Phoenician resort, where Buckley Desmond in the Lloyd Webber ticked off some of the stage work This last remark was in response been compared – her version of (the was staying during the Phoenix- musical Sunset Boulevard was she’s done around the country, to my asking whether she felt she had song) ‘Meadowlark,’ my version of area leg of the national tour of Hello, another of her triumphs. including Gypsy at New Jersey’s any unfi nished stage business. Gypsy ‘Meadowlark.’ It’s crazy. I’ve been Dolly! On the road with this favourite Buckley, who had been studying Paper Mill Playhouse, Horton Foote’s is to musical theatre divas of a certain determined that she knows that I love American musical, she called the theatre and dance as a girl despite her The Old Friends at New York’s age what King Lear is to greying her. And with Glenn it’s the same production “a gift” and showered strict father’s disapproval, recounted Signature Theatre and Grey Gardens, thespians of a serious bent. When thing, mainly because of ‘Sunset.’ I praise on producer Scott Rudin and her journey through showbiz in two fi rst at the Bay Street Theater in Buckley played Rose at the Paper went to see this new version they did director Jerry Zaks for a revival she parts. While giving me a lift back to Sag Harbor, N.Y., and then at the Mill Playhouse in 1998, the New York on Broadway and was blown away. described as “an ice cream shop of the hotel from the theatre the night Ahmanson Theatre. Times’ Ben Brantley wrote in his It was very human, very diff erent colour, beauty and joy.” before, she told anecdotes she has “I love Broadway, but just because review, “It is, of course, Ms. Buckley from what she did the fi rst time, The word “diva” actually never told many times before about her a show is not on Broadway doesn’t who makes the production essential and she sang it beautifully. I went came up during our hours of beginnings under the supervision mean that it’s not as important or viewing for Gypsy afi cionados.” But backstage and said to Glenn, ‘That conversation that started the night of her stage mother – the choir that I’m not as invested,” Buckley Arthur Laurents, the book writer who was amazing.’ I was really happy for before when I went backstage teacher shouting at her “blend in, said with sincere conviction.