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Article: Her peers on stage love `Judi'.(Metropolitan Times)(Party Lines)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 21, 1999
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Squads of cheering fans outside the stage door. A program made up of some of contemporary drama's greatest names. A weekday reception that goes on past midnight. And an articulate guest of honor who appears almost speechless when accepting her award.
They do theater galas differently in New York.
Of course, if the honoree is Academy Award-winning actress Judi Dench (officially "Dame Judi" back home in England) appearing on the set of her Broadway hit "Amy's View" and the beneficiary is Washington's own Shakespeare Guild, founded in 1987 by scholar John Andrews, you expect the unusual.
Add to that a sold-out house that included such people ...