Patricia Neway dies at 92

Patricia Neway, who performed mom Abbess within the original Broadway manufacture of "The Seem of Music," winning a Tony for featured actress throughout work of looks on Broadway and particularly the NY City Opera, died of natural causes on Jan. 24 in East Corinth, Vt. She was 92. She starred most particularly within the 1950 Broadway manufacture of Gian-Carlo Menotti's "The Consul," among the couple of operas composed for that Rialto and then a typical area of the opera repertory. She also carried out the role of Magda Sorel, the wife of the digital rebel inside a totalitarian condition, working in london, Paris as well as on tour in Europe. Neway first made an appearance on Broadway in 1942 in Offenbach's "La Vie Parisienne" after which in 1949 in Benjamin Britten's "The Rape of Lucretia." In 1958 she came back towards the Rialto in another Menotti work, "Maria Golvin." She made an appearance the following year in "The Seem of Music" -- despite the fact that Neway performed mom Superior, she was six years more youthful than Mary Martin, the actress who starred as Maria von Trapp. Also in 1959, Neway starred inside a revival of "The Consul" in the City Center a relevant video from the performance was launched on DVD decades later. "The Seem of Music" switched to be her last effort on Broadway she also forayed into Rodgers and Hammerstein having a performance as Lady Thiang in "The King and that iInch at Lincoln subsequently Center in 1964 as well as in a 1967 manufacture of "Slide carousel" for ABC. Neway carried out in lots of productions at NY City Opera, ongoing her opera career before the mid-seventies. Born in Brooklyn, Neway analyzed voice in the Mannes College of Music. She's made it by a few nieces and nephews. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com