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Madrigal, Anna (Fictitious character)

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    • us: Andrew Ramsey (Fictitious character)
    • us: Andy Ramsey (Fictitious character)
    • us: Anna Madrigal (Fictitious character)
    • us: Madrigal, Mrs. (Fictitious character)
    • us: Mrs. Madrigal (Fictitious character)
    • us: Ramsey, Andrew (Fictitious character)
    • us: Ramsey, Andy (Fictitious character)

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    • found: Work cat.: Maupin, A. Tales of the city, c1978: p. 9 (Mrs. Madrigal) p. 17 (Anna Madrigal)
    • found: Maupin, A. More tales of the city, c1980: p. 3 (Anna Madrigal; Mrs. Madrigal)
    • found: Maupin, A. Further tales of the city, c1982: p. 1 (Mrs. Madrigal)
    • found: Maupin, A. Michael Tolliver lives, c2007: p. 8 (Anna Madrigal)
    • found: Internet movie database, Aug. 11, 2011 (Mrs. Anna Madrigal (Character) from "Tales of the City" (TV mini-series 1993); character also in More Tales of the City (TV mini-series 1998) and Further Tales of the City (TV mini-series 2001))
    • found: Gender variance in the arts blog, viewed Aug. 11, 2011: 18 October 2009 - Anna Madrigal (1920- ) landlady (Anna Madrigal appears in Armistead Maupin's tales of San Francisco; in the second volume she admits to being Mona Ramsey's father. Andrew Ramsey had grown up feeling like a girl. In 1964 Andy went to Denmark and came back as Anna Madrigal, taking her name from an anagram of 'a man and a girl')
    • found: Wikipedia, Aug. 11, 2011: Tales of the City (series of eight novels written by American author Armistead Maupin; landlady Anna Madrigal; in 1993 the first book was made into a television miniseries, produced by Channel 4 in the UK and screened by PBS in the U.S. the next year. The second and third titles in the series made their television debuts in 1998 and 2001 on Showtime; Anna Madrigal Remembers was a musical work composed by Jake Heggie and performed by choir Chanticleer and mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade on 6 August 1999, for which Maupin provided a new libretto; musical stage adaptation premiered at the American Conservatory Theater in 2011 with book by Jeff Whitty and score by Jake Shears and John "JJ" Garden ... with a cast that features Judy Kaye as Anna Madrigal)

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