Broadway Remembers Beverly Randolph

The marquees of Broadway theatres in New York will be dimmed tonight at 8 pm in memory of veteran production stage manager Beverley Randolph who passed away yesterday at age 59.

Randolph stage managed more than 20 Broadway productions over the course of a 30-plus year career. At the time of her death and since 2009, she was production supervisor for the musical The Addams Family. Her credits include the Kander & Ebb musical Curtains, the musical Little Women, the 2002 revival of Into the Woods, the 1998 revival of The Sound of Music, Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award®-winning best musical Passion, Kander & Ebb’s The Kiss of the Spider Woman, William Finn’s Falsettos, the Tony Award-winning best musical Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Follies in Concert at Avery Fisher Hall, the 1987 revival of Kander & Ebb’s Cabaret and Neil Simon’s Chapter Two. In the 1980’s, she stage managed eight Broadway productions for legendary producer/director Hal Prince.

Randolph was born in Norristown, PA and attended Ithaca College. She is survived by her husband James Eisner, a theatrical production electrician. She is also survived by her mother, Sarah DaCosta; sister, Carolyn Borlo; brother-in-law Joseph Borlo; and niece, Sarah Randolph Borlo.

A memorial service for family and friends will be held Monday, May 23 at 2 pm at Christ Episcopal Church in Pompton Lakes, NJ. Additionally, a memorial for the Broadway community will be held at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre at a date to be announced. Donations can be made to The Actors’ Fund in the name of Beverley Randolph.