Vicki Frederick Biography
Vicki Frederick (born January 2, 1949) is an American actress and dancer who has appeared in a number of musicals on Broadway plays, in films, and on popular TV shows such as Mork and Mindy and Happy Days in 1979, and Murder She Wrote in 1990. Frederick was a protégé of Bob Fosse, dancing in the ensemble and lead roles in his Broadway productions of Pippin (1972), and Dancin' (1978).
She starred in Robert Aldrich's final film ...All the Marbles (1981), and in the 1984 rock musical film Body Rock, and had a bit part in Fosse's 1979 film All That Jazz. Frederick may be most remembered for her role as the sassy, elegant, long-haired dancer Sheila Bryant in the 1985 movie adaptation A Chorus Line.
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Vicki Frederick Quotes
Dreams of Dance and Motherhood
Sheila:
I have a daughter. She's nine. She loves me a lot, hates me a lot. And, uh, God help her, she wants to be a dancer.
Diana:
What's so wrong about that? How can anybody in their right mind want to be anything else? I remember I used to stand outside this stage door, and watch the girls come out, and think: "God, can anything like that ever happen to me?" But now I meet somebody, and they say: "Wow, you dance on Broadway? You got somewhere. You're something.
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Reflections on Beauty and Aging
Sheila:
My mother was kind of middle-aged and frumpy.
Diana:
Whose isn't?
Sheila:
At fourteen she was middle-aged and frumpy.
Zach:
Is that the kind of woman your father liked?
Sheila:
No. My father liked them very young, tall,and filled out in all the right places.
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