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Article: Hepburn comes to life in Foothills production.
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- February 15, 2008
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Byline: Julie Grady
COLUMN: THEATER REVIEW
WORCESTER - A large audience gathered at the Foothills Theatre to see Amelia Broome portray, arguably, one of the greatest film icons of our time, Katharine Hepburn, in the play "Tea at Five."
Broome took the stage for the first time at Foothills to exemplify the then-modern sophisticate nearly flawlessly in all aspects of Hepburn's distinctive character.
In physical terms, Broome, a Georgia native, took on the proper Connecticut dialect and diction, not to mention Kate's infamous, tomboyish posture and comportment. Everything, down to the cigarette smoking, was reminiscent of Hepburn and the ...