Gilmore Girls fans have been treated to a mini reunion.
Lauren Graham and Kelly Bishop, who played Lorelai and Emily Gilmore on the cult 2000s programme, have delighted fans with a sweet reunion 18 years after the show ended.
“It was beyond thrilling to get to introduce Ms. Kelly Bishop at the 50th Anniversary of A Chorus Line at the @shubertorg theater Sunday night. The performances were incredible, magical, inspiring! Also, this photo of us is wack because in real life Kelly is about 1/16 my size.”
Fans of the hit show were ecstatic in the comment section under the snap.
“Name a more iconic mother-daughter duo, I’ll wait,” one fan wrote.
“There’s something truly special and magical about seeing you two together again,” another added.
© Alamy Stock Photo“Emily and Lorelai forever,” a third commented.
On Sunday, July 27, Broadway legends gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the musical, A Chorus Line, at the Shubert Theatre in Midtown Manhattan. The theatre is where the landmark musical first opened on Broadway on 25 July 1975, where Kelly originated the role of Sheila Bryant.
Although she’s known as Emily Gilmore, before she graced our screens as the matriarch of the show’s namesake family, Kelly Bishop was an accomplished Broadway and movie star.
She was awarded a Tony for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Sheila in A Chorus Line. Kelly also played Jennifer Grey’s mother in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing.
© Alamy Stock PhotoIn fact, at the 1976 Tony Awards, where she clinched her win, Kelly posed for a photo beside her industry pal, Ed Herrmann, who would go on to play her on-screen husband, Richard Gilmore, in the hit television series 25 years later.
Ed died in 2014, two years before the Gilmore Girls reboot, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, began filming. In a recent interview with People for the release of her memoir, Kelly reflected on her late co-star and friend, Ed, saying:
“Because Ed died, it changed my whole story. I think if he was with it, and had been during that reboot, as they called it, we probably would’ve just been keeping on with some variation of the life that we’ve had. Because of the fact that he was no longer with us, that changed my character’s entire trajectory, everything about her,” Bishop shared.
“Actually, the storyline for Emily and those four extra episodes was probably one of the most interesting ones because she had so much to go through.”
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