{"id":128762,"date":"2022-08-10T17:17:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T17:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=128762"},"modified":"2022-08-10T17:17:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T17:17:02","slug":"chase-mishkin-dies-broadways-dame-edna-memphis-producer-was-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/chase-mishkin-dies-broadways-dame-edna-memphis-producer-was-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase Mishkin Dies: Broadway’s ‘Dame Edna’, ‘Memphis’ Producer Was 85"},"content":{"rendered":"
Chase Mishkin, the Broadway producer whose roster of productions scored two Tony Awards (for Dame Edna: The Royal Tour <\/em>and Memphis<\/em>), died July 24 at her home in Manhattan. She was 85.<\/p>\n Her death was made public in a New York Times<\/em> obituary today. Mishkin’s daughter Julie Kahle told the newspaper that her mother had dementia and had suffered two strokes.<\/p>\n Mishkin began her theater producing career just shy of her 60th birthday following the death of her husband, carpet manufacturer Ralph Mishkin. Her first production was a Los Angeles staging of Trish Vradenburg’s The Apple Doesn’t Fall…<\/em>, a drama about Alzheimer’s that opened on Broadway in 1996 with Leonard Nimoy directing.<\/p>\n Though her first production was not a commercial success, closing the day after opening, Mishkin would return to Broadway more than 30 times, taking part in productions of, among others, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Dirty Blonde, Urban Cowboy, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Chita Rivera: A Dancer’s Life, Passing Strange, Equus (starring Daniel Radcliffe) <\/em>and Hands on a Hardbody.<\/em><\/p>\n In 2000, she was a lead producer of Broadway’s Dame Edna: The Royal Tour,<\/em> which won a Special Tony Award. Her next Tony came in 2010, when Memphis<\/em>, set during the early days of rock and roll, was named Best Musical. Her final Broadway production was 2015’s Doctor Zhivago<\/em>.<\/p>\n Mishkin’s Off Broadway credits include Moisés Kaufman’s acclaimed 1997 hit Gross Indecency: The Trials of Oscar Wilde<\/em>. She also was a producer of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street In Concert<\/em>, which aired on PBS in 2001.<\/p>\n In addition to Kahle, Mishkin is survived by daughter Dixie May, stepson Steve Mishkin, and other extended family.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\nRelated Story<\/h4>\n
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