Sharon Gless friends with them. While under contract with Universal, she co-starred in a number of properties, including the 1979 Steven Bochco television sitcom, "Turnabout" (based on the Thorne Smith 1931 novel about a husband and wife who temporarily switch bodies), which failed to be a ratings blockbuster, and, briefly in the sitcom "House Calls" (in which she replaced Lynn Redgrave, who'd left due to a contract dispute). Beginning with the series' seventh episode/first full season, Gless replaced actress Meg Foster in the role of NYPD police detective Christine Cagney on "Cagney & Lacey." (The role had been originated, in the pilot
Tyne Daly protagonist, played by Cynthia Nixon. In January 2008, she played the role of Mother in the world premiere production of Edward Albee's "Me, Myself & I" at the McCarter Theatre, Princeton, New Jersey. In 2009, she appeared in the original cast of "Love, Loss, and What I Wore". She debuted the role of Judy Steinberg in "It Shoulda Been You", at the George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, New Jersey, which ran from October 4 to November 6, 2011. The musical ran on Broadway in 2015. She starred as Maria Callas in "Master Class" at the Manhattan Theater Club on Broadway,