‘A Refrain Line’ and ‘All My Kids’ actress Pamela Blair lifeless at 73

Pamela Blair, who originated the position of Val within the musical “A Refrain Line,” has died. She was 73.

Blair died Sunday at residence in Phoenix, Arizona, following a prolonged sickness, Deadline reported.

Family and friends took to social media to mourn the “All My Kids” actress, with Blair’s “Refrain Line” co-star Baayork Lee writing: “I’m very unhappy to say my Sagittarian sister Pam Blair has gone to play together with her [‘A Chorus Line’] colleagues among the many clouds.”

In a Facebook post, Lee — who shared a birthday with Blair — continued that the pair “at all times wrote to at least one one other regardless of the place we had been on that day.”

Lee recalled Blair bringing the “home down each evening” together with her efficiency of “Dance: Ten, Appears to be like: Three” from “Refrain Line.”

“You might be free now Pammie so dance, dance, dance among the many stars,” Lee concluded her put up.

Born in Vermont on Dec. 5, 1949, Blair began her profession as a stage actress and dancer. She made her Broadway debut in 1968’s “Guarantees, Guarantees.”

She continued enjoying ensemble elements on Broadway exhibits together with “Sugar” and “Seesaw,” earlier than touchdown the one feminine position in “Of Mice and Males,” as Curley’s spouse, in 1974. 

Blair was greatest identified for enjoying the unique Val in “A Refrain Line,” a job she helped develop in 1974 after being requested to take part in workshops.

Her character, Valerie Clarke, was loosely based mostly on her personal life, although Val’s love of cosmetic surgery got here from one other dancer.

She famously sings “Dance: Ten, Appears to be like: Three” concerning the worth of surgical enhancement.

Blair married actor and TV director Don Scardino in 1984. The couple divorced in 1991.

“We’re saddened to listen to that Pamela Blair, the unique ‘Val’ in A Refrain Line, has handed away,” the official account of the late “Refrain Line” composer Marvin Hamlisch tweeted, including that she was “part of the musical from the very first workshop.”

“Our ideas are together with her family members and followers,” the tweet learn.

Blair featured in TV exhibits corresponding to “Ryan’s Hope,” “Loving, One other World,” and “Sabrina The Teenage Witch.”

She obtained a Daytime Emmy nomination in 1987 for her visitor look on “All My Kids.”

Her movie credit embody “Mighty Aphrodite,” directed and written by Woody Allen, “Annie,” and “21 Grams.”