Today's Birthdays 10/24
Today's Birthdays 10/24
#0Today's Birthdays 10/24
Posted: 10/23/06 at 10:39pm
Dame Sybil Thorndike 10/24/1882 - 6/9/1976 English performer - 1907 The Merchant of Venice(Sidney Greenstreet); The Distaff Side (Estelle Winwood); film's 1947 Nicholas Nickleby, The Prince & The Showgirl; Shake Hands w/the Devil
Moss Hart 10/24/1904 - 12/20/1961 Producer, Writer, Source Material, Director, Performer, Theatre Owner/Operator, Husband of Kitty Carlisle (1946 - 1961) his death - Merrily We Roll Along; You Can't Take It With You; (perf'd in) 1926 The Emperor Jones; Tony Award-winning director: My Fair Lady [1957]; playwright: You Can’t Take It with You, Gentleman’s Agreement, The Man Who Came to Dinner [w/George S. Kaufman], I Married An Angel
Sonny Terry 10/24/1911 - Mar 12, 1986 performer - origs. Finian's Rainbow; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Barbara Bel Geddes [Maggie], Ben Gazzara [Brick]
Gilbert Becaud 10/24/1927 - Dec 18, 2001 composer - ROZA (Marcia Lewis, Georgia Brown)
F. Murray Abraham 10/24/1939 performer - Angels In America I & II; film's Academy Award-winning actor: Amadeus [1984]; Surviving the Game, Last Action Hero, Nostradamus, Scarface, Serpico, The Sunshine Boys, All the President’s Men
Kevin Kline 10/24/1947 performer, husband of Phoebe Cates (1989 - present) Producer, Performer, Artistic Crew (1 of my heros) - 2003 Henry IV; 1973 3 Sisters (David Ogden Stiers, Patti LuPone); On the 20th Century (Imogene Coca, John Cullum. Couldn't Kevin play Oscar now!?); The Pirates of Penzance (Linda Ronstadt, Estelle Parsons, Rex Smith); 1997 Ivanov (Marian Seldes); tv's & film's Academy Award-winning actor: A Fish Called Wanda [1988]; Silverado, Grand Canyon, Dave, Princess Caraboo, Search for Tomorrow; A Prairie Home Companion, The Great Buck Howard, The Pink Panther & As You Like It; [my personal favs:] The Big Chill, Sophie’s Choice. Please bring back a Broadway production of ON THE 20TH CENTURY for this guy! Or perhaps, SOAPDISH!
B.D.(Bradley Darryl) Wong 10/24/1962 performer, father of Jackson Foo Wong, former partner of Richie Jackson - 2004 Pacific Overtures; M. Butterfly (John Lithgow); 1999 You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; tv's & film's Seven Years in Tibet, Executive Decision, Father of the Bride series, Men of War, Jurassic Park, Mystery Date, The Freshman,All-American Girl, LAW & ORDER
Raúl Esparza 10/24/1970 performer; BFA in Drama - New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1992) - Taboo; The Normal Heart; 1998 Cabaret [replacement]; The Rocky Horror Show; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; 2006 Company; film's Find Me Guilty
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1910 Fred Terry stars in the title role of The Scarlet Pimpernel, the non-musical original Broadway adaptation of Baroness Orczy's novel.
1935 Mulatto, a new play by poet Langston Hughes, opens tonight at the Vanderbilt Theatre. This play, which follows the trials of a young interracial couple in the Old South, stars Rose McClendon and runs 373 performances.
1951 The Ethel Barrymore Theatre hosts Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn performing together for the first time on a Broadway stage. They star in Jan deHartog's comedy The Fourposter, opening tonight. Jose Ferrer stages this show, whose entire action takes place in a bedroom. The show will run for 632 performances, and Tandy and Cronyn will be compared to Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne by Daily News critic John Chapman. A musical version of The Fourposter, I Do! I Do!, would become a hit for Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones.
1963 110 in the Shade - Fresh from their success with The Fantasticks, songwriters Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt make their Broadway debut with 110 in the Shade based on N. Richard Nash's drama, The Rainmaker.
1974 Equus Peter Shaffer has a hit on Broadway tonight as his Equus opens at the Plymouth Theatre. The story follows a tragic young man's fascination with horses until it ultimately affects his sex life. The entire plot takes place in a psychiatric ward, where Anthony Hopkins portrays the psychiatrist who tries his hardest to help this disturbed young man, played by Peter Firth. Frances Sternhagen and Marian Seldes also star in this Tony and New York Drama Critics Circle Award- winning play. The show will run 1,209 performances.
Dancing at Lughnasa 10/24/1991 Irishman Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa opens tonight at the Plymouth Theatre. The story follows five unmarried sisters faced with poverty in rural Ireland. Friel has long been a New York favorite, bringing such works to New York as Faith Healer, Give Me Your Answer, Do; Wonderful Tennessee and Translations.
2000 Proof
2002 Movin' Out - Pop songwriter Billy Joel makes his Broadway debut with Movin' Out, consisting of songs from his pop catalog fashioned by director/choreographer Twyla Tharp into an all-dancing narrative about three buddies' experience in the Vietnam War. It will win Tony Awards for both its primary creators: Best Choreography for Tharp, Best Orchestrations for Joel.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1901 Anna Edson Taylor, a 43-year-old widow, became the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
1929 - This day became known as Black Thursday after Wall Street investors panicked and ordered their stock brokers to sell, sell, sell! Nearly 13 million shares traded hands and stock prices plummeted. Many stocks recovered late in the afternoon, but the stage had been set for the October 29th stock market crash -- and the beginning of the Great Depression.
1994 Actor Raul Julia dies today after suffering a stroke. He is 54. Heavily involved in the Public's New York Shakespeare Festival, he starred in The Threepenny Opera and The Cherry Orchard, as well as Broadway's Nine and movies such as "The Addams Family". At his funeral, friend Susan Sarandon said he "asked all the big questions and smoked all the big cigars."
(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
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Posted: 10/24/06 at 10:26amHappy birthday, Raúl!
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