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| | village voice > theater > Watering the Off-Broadway Garden by Jerry Tallmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | When we were about to stage the first Obie awards in that June of 1956, what we needed, I thought, was a "name," an actress, a star, to present the parchments, hand them out. |
 | | At the 59th second of the 59th minute in an overflowing Limelight, as the hand on the clock was hitting 2 on a beautiful blue-sky Monday afternoon in June 1956, the back door, the kitchen door, the Barrow Street door of the Limelight opened—the door that no one knew existed—and in blew Miss Shelley Winters. |
 | | The Obies, and we, were off to the races. |
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