Jean Stapleton gets Broadway tribute, lights to go dim for ‘All In The Family’ star

Before she entered American homes as Edith Bunker on All In The Family, the late Jean Stapleton was an accomplished stage actress and Broadway will pay tribute to that part of her legendary career by dimming the lights.

Stapleton died over the weekend at age 90 from natural causes.

The Broadway League announced today that the Great White Way will dim its lights for a minute at 8:00 p.m. Wednesday night in Stapleton’s honor.

“The theatre is where Jean Stapleton started, and she often returned to the stage throughout her lengthy and multi-faceted career. While we all feel like we knew her, thanks to her iconic television role playing Edith Bunker in All in the Family, the Broadway community claims her as one of our family,” Charlotte St. Martin, Executive Director of The Broadway League, said in a statement. “Her decades portraying a variety of roles on our Broadway and Off Broadway stages revealed her brilliance in believably playing many different characters. The range of her talent was also evident in that she could triumph in both musical comedies and serious dramas. She will be missed.”

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Stapleton made her Broadway debut in 1953’s In the Summer House. Her other credits included Damn Yankees, Bells are Ringing, Juno and Funny Girl. She also took part in the 1986 revival of Arsenic and Old Lace.

She also played her Broadway roles on the big screen for the film versions of Damn Yankees and Bells are Ringing.

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