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ABOUT SHARING IN THE GROOVE
The wild, untold oral history of the unlikely rise of Phish, Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic, Blues…
An attractive brunette with angular features, Lee Grant began her career as a child performer with NYC’s Metropolitan Opera. By age 11, she had become a member of the American Ballet Theatre. After music studies at Juilliard, she won a scholarship to attend the Neighborhood Playhouse and switched her focus to acting. Grant understudied the role of Ado Annie in a touring production of “Oklahoma!” before landing her breakthrough stage role as a young shoplifter in Sidney Kingsley’s “Detective Story” in 1949. Hollywood soon beckoned and she recreated the role in William Wyler’s 1951 superb film version. Grant won