Original Broadway Cast of The Drowsy Chaperone
Beatrice Stockwell
[MAN IN CHAIR, spoken]
Beatrice Stockwell was famous for her rousing anthems. She entertained and inspired troops in every major world conflict up to and including the Falklands war. Of course, by that time she was in her late eighties and her anthems didn't so much rouse as stupefy. Still, she demanded a rousing anthem in every show she ever did, even if it wasn't appropriate.