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Posted: 1/25/04 at 10:05pm
Robert Burns 1/25/1759 - 7/21/1796 Scottish national poet, Auld Lang Syne; Behold, my love, how green the groves; To A Mouse
W. Somerset Maugham 1/25/1874 - 12/16/1965 Writer, Source Material, Director - The Circle (my 1st straight role) 1989 (Stewart Granger, Rex Harrison, Glynis Johns, Roma Downey, Patricia Conolly); Rain; The Constant Wife (Ethel Barrymore, C. Aubrey Smith); Sadie Thompson (June Havoc); film's Of Human Bondage, The Razor’s Edge
Virginia Woolf 1/25/1882 - 3/28/1941 British author, source mat'l, To the Lighthouse, A Room of One's Own - The Hours
Paula Laurence 01/25/1916 Wife of Charles Bowden, performer. seen her sing w/Steve Ross at piano many times, brilliant singing comedian! - One Touch of Venus; 1946 Cyrano de Bergerac (Jose Ferrer); Ivanov (John Gielgud, Vivien Leigh, Miller Lide)
Barbara Carroll 1/25/1925 marvelous jazz pianist, arranger, occasional vocalist: LPs: Everything I Love, This Heart of Mine, Live at the Carlyle, Old Friends
Dean Jones 01/25/1931 performer - There Was a Little Girl; Under the Yum-Yum Tree; Company; Into the Light (Susan Bigelow); film's The Love Bug, That Darn Cat, Tea and Sympathy, Beethoven
Elizabeth Allen 01/25/1934 performer - Romanoff and Juliet; The Gay Life (Barbara Cook, Jules Munchen); Do I Hear a Waltz?; Sherry; tv's & film's The Paul Lynde Show, C.P.O. Sharkey, Bracken’s World
Leigh Taylor-Young 1/25/1944 performer - tv's & film's I Love You Alice B. Toklas, Soylent Green, Can’t Stop the Music, Honeymoon Academy, Peyton Place, Dallas
Richard Poe 01/25/1946 performer - Execution of Justice; M. Butterfly; Our Country's Good (Cherry Jones); Moon Over Buffalo
Ruth Williamson 01/25/1954 performer - Smile; Epic Proportions (another 1 I enjoyed)(Kristin Chenoweth)
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1968 Robert Anderson's family drama I Never Sang for My Father opens at the Longacre Theatre with a cast that includes Lillian Gish, Hal Holbrook and Alan Web. It runs 124 performances. 1969 Dancer-actress Irene Castle dies today in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. She partnered with her husband Vernon in shows such as Watch Your Step, and she appeared alone in Miss 1917.
1973 National Lampoon's Lemmings plays at the Village Gate in New York City. This revue, inspired by the magazine National Lampoon, has a cast that includes future "Saturday Night Live" stars John Belushi, and Chevy Chase, among others. The eleven-month run is directed by Tony Hendra.
1996 One day before the Off-Off-Broadway opening of Rent, author-composer Jonathan Larson dies of an aortic aneurysm. Much litigation would follow regarding both the circumstances of his death and the authorship of the musical, but none of it would tarnish the runaway success of Larson's story of young, hand-to-mouth, downtown New Yorkers who refuse to pay "last year's rent."
2000 Brian d'Arcy James, Julia Murney, Idina Menzel, and Taye Diggs star in Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party at Manhattan Theatre Club, which begins preview performances tonight. The production is the first of two musicals with the same title and based upon the same source material that will open in New York this season. Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe's The Wild Party will open in April at the Virginia Theater.
2002 At a special sold-out performance attended by Colm Wilkinson, Cameron Mackintosh, Judy Kuhn and Trevor Nunn, Broadway's Les Miserables celebrates its surpassing the 6.137-performance run of A Chorus Line, and becoming the second-longest running show in Broadway history. The cast performs a combination of songs from the two shows -- "One" and "One Day More."
2003 Closing day for the gothic musical Dance of the Vampires after just 56 Broadway performances at the Minskoff Theatre, losing its entire investment, estimated at $12 million. Based on the Roman Polanski film, The Fearless Vampire Killers, the show had been a major hit in Vienna, where it originated. But New York critics faulted its uneven tone, sometimes trying to be campy, sometimes trying to be scary. OK, I guess I was the only 1 who had fun at this 1.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1533 England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn.
On Jan. 25, 1915, the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service.
(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
W. Somerset Maugham 1/25/1874 - 12/16/1965 Writer, Source Material, Director - The Circle (my 1st straight role) 1989 (Stewart Granger, Rex Harrison, Glynis Johns, Roma Downey, Patricia Conolly); Rain; The Constant Wife (Ethel Barrymore, C. Aubrey Smith); Sadie Thompson (June Havoc); film's Of Human Bondage, The Razor’s Edge
Virginia Woolf 1/25/1882 - 3/28/1941 British author, source mat'l, To the Lighthouse, A Room of One's Own - The Hours
Paula Laurence 01/25/1916 Wife of Charles Bowden, performer. seen her sing w/Steve Ross at piano many times, brilliant singing comedian! - One Touch of Venus; 1946 Cyrano de Bergerac (Jose Ferrer); Ivanov (John Gielgud, Vivien Leigh, Miller Lide)
Barbara Carroll 1/25/1925 marvelous jazz pianist, arranger, occasional vocalist: LPs: Everything I Love, This Heart of Mine, Live at the Carlyle, Old Friends
Dean Jones 01/25/1931 performer - There Was a Little Girl; Under the Yum-Yum Tree; Company; Into the Light (Susan Bigelow); film's The Love Bug, That Darn Cat, Tea and Sympathy, Beethoven
Elizabeth Allen 01/25/1934 performer - Romanoff and Juliet; The Gay Life (Barbara Cook, Jules Munchen); Do I Hear a Waltz?; Sherry; tv's & film's The Paul Lynde Show, C.P.O. Sharkey, Bracken’s World
Leigh Taylor-Young 1/25/1944 performer - tv's & film's I Love You Alice B. Toklas, Soylent Green, Can’t Stop the Music, Honeymoon Academy, Peyton Place, Dallas
Richard Poe 01/25/1946 performer - Execution of Justice; M. Butterfly; Our Country's Good (Cherry Jones); Moon Over Buffalo
Ruth Williamson 01/25/1954 performer - Smile; Epic Proportions (another 1 I enjoyed)(Kristin Chenoweth)
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1968 Robert Anderson's family drama I Never Sang for My Father opens at the Longacre Theatre with a cast that includes Lillian Gish, Hal Holbrook and Alan Web. It runs 124 performances. 1969 Dancer-actress Irene Castle dies today in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. She partnered with her husband Vernon in shows such as Watch Your Step, and she appeared alone in Miss 1917.
1973 National Lampoon's Lemmings plays at the Village Gate in New York City. This revue, inspired by the magazine National Lampoon, has a cast that includes future "Saturday Night Live" stars John Belushi, and Chevy Chase, among others. The eleven-month run is directed by Tony Hendra.
1996 One day before the Off-Off-Broadway opening of Rent, author-composer Jonathan Larson dies of an aortic aneurysm. Much litigation would follow regarding both the circumstances of his death and the authorship of the musical, but none of it would tarnish the runaway success of Larson's story of young, hand-to-mouth, downtown New Yorkers who refuse to pay "last year's rent."
2000 Brian d'Arcy James, Julia Murney, Idina Menzel, and Taye Diggs star in Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party at Manhattan Theatre Club, which begins preview performances tonight. The production is the first of two musicals with the same title and based upon the same source material that will open in New York this season. Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe's The Wild Party will open in April at the Virginia Theater.
2002 At a special sold-out performance attended by Colm Wilkinson, Cameron Mackintosh, Judy Kuhn and Trevor Nunn, Broadway's Les Miserables celebrates its surpassing the 6.137-performance run of A Chorus Line, and becoming the second-longest running show in Broadway history. The cast performs a combination of songs from the two shows -- "One" and "One Day More."
2003 Closing day for the gothic musical Dance of the Vampires after just 56 Broadway performances at the Minskoff Theatre, losing its entire investment, estimated at $12 million. Based on the Roman Polanski film, The Fearless Vampire Killers, the show had been a major hit in Vienna, where it originated. But New York critics faulted its uneven tone, sometimes trying to be campy, sometimes trying to be scary. OK, I guess I was the only 1 who had fun at this 1.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1533 England's King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn.
On Jan. 25, 1915, the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service.
(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
