8/13/2019 Newsday "Fast Chat" - Florence Henderson

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cently ["Broadway Backwards5"1 to raise money for AIDS - Ihad performed in it last year,and thenthisyear I hosted it.And Bruce did a number thatwas just so funny. We got totalking and we just said we'dlove to work together. Manypeople don't lnow that Brucewas the headwriter on"TheBrady Btinch Hour."You've been touring a revuefor a couple of years now.This'll be prettymuch the same -*show. It's - -;|ffi

very autobiographical andvery funny and touching, wehope. It's a lot of great music.I've done it with symphonies,I've done it with just my smallgroup, and it always seems towork.You've got projects every-where: the FloH Club websiteof computer-tech support forseniors, your interview pro-gram on Retirement LivingTV, indie movies . . .I try to be relevant. I lovewhat I do, I love workingin so many differentareas. I'm going to beon "WWE Raw."

What? Oh, tellmeabout this. Who areyou fighting?Maybe I'm going tohandle three or four. guys (Laughs.). . .I don't know whatthe script is yet, butyou do somethingbefore the show and,

I think, whenever they havebreaks and so forth. I'm look-ing forward to it; I think it'sgoing to be very funny.I'd be remiss if I didn't ask ifyou stay in touch with yourTV kids.Of course, I do. They'te all.doing very well. As a matterof fact, I saw Barry [Williams,who played Greg BradyJ theother night quite by accident.We were in a restaurant, andhe came over with two peoplefrom Australia, and we had-areally nice visit.And you were on the realityshow "My Fair Brady" withChristopher Knight [PeterBradyI.Chris asked me to come andkind ofcounsel him and [fian-ceel Adrianne [Curry], whichI did - because I am a certi-fied hypnotherapist. I'll tellyou, it was surreal. He's stillmarried, and he's a wonderfulguy; I adore him. I saw EvelPlumb, aka ]an BradyJ inNew York; she also participat-ed in this benefit that I did.And I hear from Susan [Olsen,. who played Cindy BradyJfrequently. Not so much fromMike Lookinland [BobbyBradyJ - he lives in Utah. Butwhen I see him, he's also sucha sweetheart. I hear from AnnB. Davis [housekeeper Alice],too.How about the replacementJan from "The Brady BunchHour," Geri Reischl?No, never. I'm not in touchwith her nor the girl whoplayed Maureen [McCor-mick'sl part [Marcia BradyJ inone of our reunions [1990's"The Bradys"J.You and Robert Reed lMikeBradyl really did have a

Reed left the Broadwayplay "Deathtrap" for aweekend and flew in athis own expense to filmit, saying,'"Nobody'sgonna marry off my twooldest daughters but-me "Well, we were his fami-ly, pretty much. It wasvery important to him.As much as he resisteda lot of the scripts and soforth, he just loved all ofus, and we loved him. Andwe miss him.

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