Aug 242008
I was walking near the Guthrie yesterday and noticed an attractive, middle-aged woman with auburn hair and sunglasses heading in the opposite direction. My nurse said to me, “You know who that was? Melissa Gilbert.” Gilbert played Laura Ingalls in the TV series Little House on the Prairie and she’s currently playing Ma Ingalls in the Guthrie’s musical adaptation of the same. I would never have recognized her if my nurse hadn’t said anything. It was the absence of pigtails and a bonnet that threw me off.
Cool.
Long ago (30+ years) I remember seeing “Laura” and “Mary” on t.v. at the Rose Parade. I was really confused as to how they had arrived in the 20th century. Only then did the realities of television start to sink in.
On a similar note, I was very disappointed when my family got a color t.v. and the Mickey Mouse Club remained black and white. If these were actually reruns, and all these kids were now grown up, I would never get to be a Mousketeer.