Today's Birthdays 10/22

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Posted: 10/22/04 at 11:21am

Franz Liszt 10/22/1811 - Jul 31, 1886 pianist extraordinaire, & not a bad composer, too. look at all the cool cats he hung out with: Chopin, Wagner to name a few - TRANCENDENCE; Bugs Bunny on Broadway; compositions: The Hungarian Rhapsodies, Les Preludes, Orpheus, Tasso, Faust, Hungarian Fantasy, Sonata in B Minor

Sarah Bernhardt 10/22/1844 - 1923 performer - King Lear; Cleopatra, Fedora

Giovanni Martinelli 10/22/1885 - 10/22/1969 opera singer: tenor: with Metropolitan Opera for 30 seasons

Constance Bennett 10/22/1904 - 7/24/1965 sister of Joan & Barbara Bennett, performer - A DATE WITH APRIL; film's Madame X, As Young as You Feel, Two-Faced Woman, Topper, Sin Takes a Holiday

Roger De Koven 10/22/1907 - Jan 28, 1988 performer - origs COMPULSION (Roddy McDowell, Dean Stockwell, Suzanne Pleshette); THE MIRACLE WORKER; ARTURO UI; FUNNY GIRL;

Joan Fontaine (de Havilland) 10/22/1917 Olivia de Havilland' sis - replacements in TEA & SYMPATHY; 40 CARATS; Academy Award-winning actress: Suspicion [1941]; Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Jane Eyre, Ivanhoe, Island in the Sun, Gunga Din, & 1 of my top 10 - REBECCA ("Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" did anyone notice when reading the novel/watching the movie, that we never learn Joan Fontaine's character's name!)

Derek Jacobi 10/22/1938 performer - 1985 MUCH ADO; 2000 UNCLE VANYA; tv's & film's Emmy Award-winning actor: The Tenth Man - Hallmark Hall of Fame [1988-89]; The Day of the Jackal, I Claudius series, The Odessa File, The Secret Garden

Christopher Lloyd 10/22/1938 - 2002 MORNING'S AT 7; tv's & film's Emmy Award-winning actor: Taxi [1981-1982] [1982-1983], Avonlea-The Disney Channel [1991-1992]; Back to the Future series, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Star Trek III, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Angels in the Outfield, Addams Family Values, Radioland Murders, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mr. Mom, Lady in Red

Tony Roberts 10/22/1939 performer - DON'T DRINK THE WATER (Kay Medford, Anita Gillette, Donna Mills); HOW NOW DOW JONES; 1987 ARSENIC & OLD LACE; VICTOR/VICTORIA; THE TALE OF THE ALLERGIST'S WIFE; tv's & film's Play It Again Sam, Serpico, Radio Days, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, Edge of Night, The Thorns, The Four Seasons

Annette Funicello - 10/22/1942 - actress: tv's & film's The Mickey Mouse Club, Beach Blanket Bingo, Back to the Beach, Beach Party, Bikini Beach; singer: Tall Paul,

Catherine Deneuve 10/22/1943 - performer - film's Repulsion, Indochine, The April Fools, Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Lee Meredith 10/22/1947 performer - orig THE SUNSHINE BOYS

Jeff Goldblum 10/22/1952 performer, husband of Patricia Gaul (1980 - 1986) divorced, husband of Geena Davis (1987 - 1990) divorced - 2 GENTLEMEN OF VERONA (Raul Julia); film's The Fly, The Big Chill, Independence Day, Death Wish, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Right Stuff, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Silverado, Hideaway, Jurassic Park

Judy Blazer 10/22/1956 performer - A CHANGE IN THE HEIR (my 1st Judy Blazer show); TITANIC; LUCKY STIFF; HELLO AGAIN

Marc Shaiman 10/22/1959 Lyricist, Arranger, Composer, Musical Director, Orchestrator, Performer, Conductor; Partner of Scott Wittman (1979 - present) - Up in One (Peter Alan); Bette! Divine Madness; An Evening with Harry Connick Jr. and His Orchestra; Patti Lupone on Bway; Hairspray (Harvey Fierstein, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Dick Latessa, Jackie Hoffman); tv's South Park

Robert Torti 10/22/1961 performer, husband of DeLee Lively - STARLIGHT EXPRESS

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1932 George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's Dinner at Eight opens on Broadway tonight for a 232-performance run. The Depression-era story follows a group of invitees to a swanky dinner party, each of whom is suffering from financial desperation, but trying to hide the fact from the others, dreaming that the others will help them. The ironic story leads to a film version and numerous revivals.

Stage Door 10/22/1936

1942 Candle in the Wind -- the Maxwell Anderson play, not the Elton John song -- opens tonight on Broadway with Helen Hayes and Lotte Lenya. It runs 95 performances.

1951 Carnegie Hall hosts a one-night-only reading of George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell. This is the first time it has been staged in New York, although tonight's performance has its stars in evening clothes holding their scripts in front of them. Charles Laughton directs and also stars, alongside Charles Boyer, Cedric Hardwicke and Agnes Moorehead, of "Bewitched" fame. This very limited engagement is followed by a short tour.

1964 "The playwright's name is Sam Shepard, and I know nothing about him," says Michael Smith in today's Village Voice, "except that he has written a pair of provocative and genuinely original plays." This is the response to the opening of Shepard's first-ever produced works: Cowboy and The Rock Garden at the St. Marks, produced by Theatre Genesis in the Bouwerie Church in the East Village. Shepard will go on to become a well known name in American drama for his plays, True West, Curse of the Starving Class and Pulitzer-winner Buried Child.

King of Hearts 10/22/1978

Cabaret 10/22/1987

Swinging on a Star 10/22/1995

ON THIS DAY IN:

New York City’s nouveau riche built their own opera house on Broadway in Manhattan, staging its first performance on this day in 1883. When the curtains parted on this first night, Italian tenor Italo Campanini and Swedish soprano Christine Nilsson starred in Charles Gounod’s Faust. Orchestra-seat ticket holders paid $6 admission.

(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)

Milla Updated On: 10/22/04 at 11:21 AM