‘My childhood memories include being buried in an avalanche of black-market
tinned peas while sheltering from bombs under the cellar stairs. Nothing,
nothing, comes close to this,’ Amanda says
AMANDA Barrie, 82, lived with Billy Fury, married a (male) theatre director but
finally came to terms with her true sexuality at the age of 67 when she came out
as gay.
Woodland Intermediate School after-school drama club members practiced their
lines and songs during Thursday’s dress rehearsal of Disney’s “Peter Pan, Jr.”
Performances are set for Feb. 19 and 20 at the Gurnee school.