‘A Chorus Line’ and ‘All My Children’ actress Pamela Blair dead at 73

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Deadline reported.Friends and family took to social media to mourn the “All My Children” actress, with Blair’s “Chorus Line” co-star Baayork Lee writing: “I am very sad to say my Sagittarian sister Pam Blair has gone to play with her [‘A Chorus Line’] colleagues among the clouds.” In a Facebook post, Lee — who shared a birthday with Blair — continued that the pair “always wrote to one another no matter where we were on that day.”Lee recalled Blair bringing the “house down every night” with her performance of “Dance: Ten, Looks: Three” from “Chorus Line.”“You are free now Pammie so dance, dance, dance among the stars,” Lee concluded her post.Born in Vermont on Dec.

5, 1949, Blair started her career as a stage actress and dancer. She made her Broadway debut in 1968’s “Promises, Promises.” She continued playing ensemble parts on Broadway shows including “Sugar” and “Seesaw,” before landing the only female role in “Of Mice and Men,” as Curley’s wife, in 1974.

Blair was best known for playing the original Val in “A Chorus Line,” a role she helped develop in 1974 after being asked to participate in workshops.

Her character, Valerie Clarke, was loosely based on her own life, though Val’s love of plastic surgery came from another dancer.She famously sings “Dance: Ten, Looks: Three” about the value of surgical enhancement.