Broadway to Dim Lights on August 17 in Honor of Tony Award Winner Patricia Neal

Broadway marquees will dim at 8pm on Tuesday, August 17 in honor of Tony Award winner Patricia Neal, who died on August 8 at age 84.

Neal won the first-ever Tony Award for her performance as Regina Hubbard in Lillian Hellman’s Another Part of the Forest and also appeared on Broadway in The Miracle Worker, Roomful of Roses, and The Children’s Hour.

Her film credits include Hud, for which she won an Academy Award, as well as The Fountainhead, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, A Face in the Crowd, The Subject Was Roses, and Cookie’s Fortune.

Neal wrote her autobiography As I Am in 1988. There was also a television movie about her life, The Patricia Neal Story, starring Glenda Jackson, which dealt with the actress’ marriage to author Roald Dahl and her recovery from a debilitating stroke.

She is survived by her many children and grandchildren.