 Additional Off-Broadway credits include "The Cradle Will Rock" (1964), "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black" (1969), "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" (1972), "Steel Magnolias" (1987), and "The Foreigner" (2004).Gardner made her Broadway debut in the short-lived musical (65 performances) "A Family Affair" in 1962 as Sally Nathan.She was featured in a brief 1963 revival of "Pal Joey" as Linda English and replaced Susan Watson soon after the opening of "Ben Franklin in Paris" in 1964.