Richard Skipper Celebrates Don Correia and Sandy Duncan (1/12/2022)
For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/kpPKR5fXlok Sandy Duncan was a Disney film lead, a TV commodity pitching crackers and arguably the best Peter Pan Broadway has ever offered. Sandra Kay Duncan, born February 20, 1946, felt like an outsider growing up in her native Texas because of her desires to be an actress. The elder of two girls born to a gas station owner, she trained in dance and appeared in productions of "The King and I" (in which she got her Equity Card) and "The Music Man" as a teen. Sandy made an enchanting Wendy in "Peter Pan" and soon poised herself as a triple threat on stage. Taking her first Broadway curtain call and grabbing a Tony nomination in a bawdy musical version of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", she next won the soubrette role of Maisie in the Jazz-age musical "The Boy Friend". She managed to steal the thunder right from under star Judy Carne (who had just left the cast of TV's "Laugh-In" in order to branch out) and earned her second Tony nomination -- this time as "Best Actress". The toothy strawberry blonde was a sensation and in 1970 Time Magazine named her "the most promising face of tomorrow". In 1979 Sandy retook Broadway by storm. Instead of the role of Wendy, she played the title tomboy in the musical "Peter Pan" and was nominated for a third time for a Tony Award. Born to play this role, she followed this spectacular success by locking arms with a carefree Tommy Tune in the tuneful Broadway show "My One and Only" replacing Twiggy in 1984. Don Correia was born on August 28, 1951 in San Jose, California, USA. He is known for his work on My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988), Everyone Says I Love You (1996) and The Equalizer (1985). He has been married to Sandy Duncan since July 21, 1980. They have two children.