Background
Gail Boggs, the daughter of Willie Boggs, a tree surgeon, and Alice, a dietitian, described having always dreamed of being a Broadway star.
Gail Boggs, the daughter of Willie Boggs, a tree surgeon, and Alice, a dietitian, described having always dreamed of being a Broadway star.
She played Louise Brown in the 1990 film Ghost. Her professional acting break came in 1971 playing Silvia with a touring group in Australia in a popular-rock version of Shakespeare"s play The Two Gentlemen of Verona. She signed with William Morris Agency and went on to act in several plays, including rock opera Mother Earth, an off-Broadway revue, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Candide.
Boggs also sang as a vocalist in David Sancious"s short-lived band "Tone".
In 1984, Boggs starred in the one-woman cabaret nightclub act The Gail Boggs Show at "Upstairs at Greene Street". The show ran weekly for the next year and a half.
Images of Boggs are found in the Martha Swope archive at the New York Public Library. Boggs was married to Eric Larson, a voice actor and music editors
They have two daughters, Willie and Mattie, a former gymnast.
1971 The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Silvia)
1972 Mother Earth at the Belasco Theatre
1974 Candide (Penitente / Whore / Houri) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
1979 Ain"t Misbehavin"
1982 Elizabeth Swados"s Lullabye and Goodnight (Velvet Puppy)
1987 The Bronx Zoo (Roz Hemphill)
1988 And God Created Woman (Denise)
1989 The Boss (Luanda)
1990 Ghost (Louise Brown, sister of Ode Mae Brown played by Whoopi Goldberg)
1991 Curly Sue (Anise Hall)
1993 Cancelled Lives: Letters from the Inside
1995 Get Smart (2nd nurse)
1995 Boy Meets World (nurse)
1999 EDtv.
During the mid-1970s, Boggs provided vocals and percussion as a member of "The Striders" alongside "The Original Flying Machine"-alum Joel "Bishop" O"Brien and Robbie Dupree.