"julie harris in the belle of amherst"

The Belle of Amherst was a one-woman show based on the life of poet Emily Dickinson, drawing on her poems, diaries, and letters. After one preview, Julie Harris opened on Broadway in April 1976, where she won the Tony for Best Actress, bringing to life 15 characters on stage during the performance. She even won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Recording when she recorded the text of the William Luce play. You can see her bring Dickinson to life in a video recording that was first broadcast on PBS. For close to 25 years, Harris toured in the show across over the country. Hirschfeld would later draw in her in a one-woman show, Lucifer’s Child about the writer Isak Dikerson.

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