
“It was opening night, and I wasn’t going to miss it.”) “I had tripped walking out of the beauty shop, so I rode to the theatre in an ambulance with ice on my knee and ankle,” she said. (Only in this case, Wolf actually needed it. After all, the famous story’s irascible protagonist Sheridan Whiteside spends the play in a wheelchair. Wolf arrived at the Theatre Company’s The Man Who Came to Dinner in 1990 wearing a cocktail dress while being pushed in a wheelchair. There are method actors, and then there are method dressers. Or when she came to the 2019 Colorado New Play Summit concert performance of Rattlesnake Kate in a cowboy hat, boots and a snakeskin jacket. Like when she wore a toga to the opening of the DCPA Theatre Company’s 10-hour epic Greek cycle Tantalus in 2000. When Wolf arrives in all her sartorial splendor for a night at the theatre (or a charity function, or a boring old meeting, for that matter), she’s easy to spot in the crowd.

“The Red Wolf,” as she is affectionately known, held fish-shaped balloons while her household manager blew bubbles in her wake.

Like when she floated into The Buell Theatre for the opening of the Broadway-bound The Little Mermaid in 2007 dressed to the gills as Ariel’s mother wearing a stunning, ocean-themed blue and turquoise dress. Judi Wolf doesn’t merely walk into a room.
