Cagney & Lacey Cain, and show the two lead characters being promoted to plainclothes detectives and later disguised as prostitutes. This was replaced the following season by an instrumental theme composed by Bill Conti set to a collage of action and comical scenes featuring the characters from the series. The series was followed by four television movies which reunited the characters Christine Cagney (promoted and now working at the District Attorney's office) and Mary Beth Lacey (now retired from the police force). Following the conclusion of "Cagney & Lacey", Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless have reunited onscreen three times: all three times playing
Life and Beth his last new play whilst artistic director (the last one being a musical "Awaking Beauty"), "Life and Beth" was nonetheless seen as his farewell performance. In keeping with the intention to combine the casts of the all-male "Haunting Julia" and all-female "Snake in the Grass", there are six characters in the play. They are: The view that Beth cannot manage without Gordon is shared by most of the characters – Connie, David, Martin, and Gordon himself – with Beth alone in believing she's coping. "Life and Beth" is the only play in the trilogy where a ghost is actually seen