As The Notebook's Older Allie, Maryann Plunkett Delivers a Tribute to Her Mother and a 'Love Story for the Elders'
The last time Maryann Plunkett starred in a Broadway musical, she won the 1987 Best Actress Tony Award, singing with a Cockney accent and dancing the "Lambeth Walk" in Me and My Girl. Almost 40 years later, Plunkett has returned to the musical stage as Older Allie in Ingrid Michaelson and Bekah Brunstetter's adaptation of the mega-selling Nicholas Sparks novel The Notebook. It's a savvy piece of casting, because Plun…