Beloved Boston actress Nancy E. Carroll, who died Dec. 24 after a long illness, could hold an audience with her unflinching gaze, often leavened by a mischievous twinkle in her eye, writes theater critic Terry Byrne.
“She had an extraordinary capacity to imagine an inner life for her characters,” says Scott Edmiston, who directed her in seven different shows over two decades. “She often played characters who were trying to hold their emotions inside, and yet she was able to communicate that struggle through her eyes, her expressions and her spirit.”Born in Haverhill, Massachusetts on Sept.
Nancy E. Carroll and Annie Golden in the Huntington Theatre Company's 2017 production of "Ripcord." “She could deliver an Irish monologue with a spot-on brogue, timing and nuances that I couldn’t even pull off,” says Hamell, an Irish native. “She was so comfortable with pauses, she would hold a moment for just a beat longer than you thought was possible,” he says. “Onstage opposite her, I had to bite my cheek to keep from breaking out laughing.
He also says that although he knew her for many years, he didn’t know much about her background as a veteran of musical theater song-and-dance.“I do know that in ‘The Return of the Winemaker,’” where Carroll played God’s hilariously controlled wife Marilyn, “when Derry Woodhouse and I were singing and dancing and trying not to trip over ourselves, we looked over at Nancy and said, ‘what are you doing?’ and she said, ‘I don’t know what you’re doing, but I’m following the beat. Try it.
“Nan was a delight to work with,” says Sarah deLima, a member of the “Calendar Girls” cast. “In the play, women of a certain age are stripping off their clothes, and while we are never completely exposed to the audience, we are all backstage together in various states of undress. To make sure we all felt comfortable, at the third rehearsal, she and her stage manager shut the rehearsal room door and said, ‘Right, here we go,’ and they stripped off their clothes, and then so did we.
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