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Christine Prochnau
Red-haired, athletic, pale, Christine was lovely to look at and often showed up in our "pretty girl" roles, first appearing as Alice in You Can't Take It With You and then playing the Cappadocian in Salome, where I made the role into a sort of high class prostitute who spends the whole time sitting in the Roman ambassador's lap. She went on to have a cameo as a white-trash house-wife in Hello Out There, played one half of the therapist couple in 'Denity Crisis, and got all decked out in Spanish finery to be Leonora in Le Cid. Her best roles with us, however, were as Dorimene in The Forced Marriage and as an unbelievably shrill and bombastic Marvel Ann in Psycho Beach Party, for which she definitely won the "I look better in a bikini than anyone else" award. Somewhere in all this she got a chance to throw her pretty girl image to the wind and played Elma in Lost River's production of Bus Stop, which was kind of neat to see, but in the final scene, when Elma discovers she's pretty without her glasses on you, you kind of felt like saying, "Well, duh, it's Christine Prochnau."
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