Broadway to dim lights in honor of Elizabeth Taylor
(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - The lights on Broadway will be dimmed Friday night in honor of Elizabeth Taylor.
The Broadway League, the national trade association, said Thursday that theater marquees will go dark at 8 p.m. for one minute in memory of the legendary screen icon.
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The actress died in Los Angeles on Wednesday at age 79. She was laid to rest Thursday at Forest Lawn in Glendale, Calif.
Taylor made her first appearance on Broadway in the 1981 revival of Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes" and was nominated for a best actress Tony Award.
She returned to Broadway in 1983 as producer and star of Noel Coward's "Private Lives" opposite her former husband, Richard Burton. She also produced "The Corn is Green" that year.
Known more as a film actress, Taylor brought stage classics to the screen, including Tennessee William's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
