Fresh Air Remembers Actress And Singer Elaine Stritch

Across the New York theater district, marquees will dim their lights on Friday evening in honor of one of the all-time greatest brassy broads of Broadway, Elaine Stritch. But a more fitting remembrance might be for theater lovers 

By the time she died yesterday at the age of 89, Elaine Stritch had made a name for herself in many ways—for her one-woman shows, for her indomitable will, and for her unique, often pants-less fashion sense—but perhaps 

Elaine Stritch was indeed a "Broadway Baby" as the song says . . . and what a lady she was to her many fans, right up to the moment of her passing on Thursday. If there ever was anyone who believed age was just a number, it was Elaine Stritch, as Lee 

"Elaine Stritch's big personality was matched by her big talent," Broadway League Executive Director Charlotte St. Martin said. "Collaborating with some of Broadway's greatest playwrights and composers throughout her lengthy career, her signature

Elaine Stritch would probably have been pleased to know that news of her death on Thursday at 89 pushed world events like the conflict in Gaza or the downed Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 off the front pages, at least for a couple of hours. Stritch made