Motorcycling with young Marlon Brando and Wally Cox through Rockland County. Meeting Lee Grant on the afternoon of her big break. Tagging along on friend Ella Logan's date with Sinatra. A visit to the Chateau Mouton Rothschild vineyard by invitation from Baron Philippe de Rothschild. I've Slept with Everybody, whose title is a play on the many forms of intimacy Sondra Lee has experienced, is a collection of snapshots of a life wonderfully lived. Please join us for a very special Q&A and signing with Sondra at the Drama Bookshop tomorrow, November 5th at 6pm!
Sondra Lee thoughtfully documents her nearly 50 year career as a Broadway legend and fixture of the theater, television and dance scene in her new memoir. Humor and loving memories, recollections of trials and tribulations, and a countless series of short-lived and lifelong friendships and romantic flings with the famous and not so famous take the lead in this rich tale of what can happen to a fearless kid from Newark, NJ who has a talent and a determined will.
Sondra Lee was discovered in 1947 by the great choreographer
Jerome Robbins who turned the Newark kid into a Broadway Baby in High Button Shoes. She won the hearts of millions as the original Tiger Lily in Peter Pan starring
Mary Martin and shined in Hello Dolly! alongside two legendary Dollys -
Carol Channing and
Ginger Rogers. She appeared in hugely successful
Theater Productions Hotel Paradiso and Sunday in New York and has countless dance credits including the original Ballets: USA, soloist at the Metropolitan Opera and
City Center Opera's Street Scene, and co-star in Les Ballets De Paris. She has gone on to become a renowned acting coach and director's consultant on award-winning films.
I've Slept with Everybody is indeed an informative play by play of Sondra's impressive resume, but is above all a vivacious document of her friendships - both romantic and platonic - with the inspiring luminaries she met along the way. Sondra transports readers to a specific place, time and feeling in her life - her young romance with
Marlon Brando, her lifelong relationship with
Jerome Robbins, her outrageous accounts of mentor
Stella Adler, and her own mentorship of actors such as
Jane Fonda - telling it like it was (and like it is) as only she can.
