Today's Birthdays 11/1 Late Edition
Today's Birthdays 11/1 Late Edition
#1Today's Birthdays 11/1 Late Edition
Posted: 11/2/08 at 3:29pm
Jane Froman 11/01/1907 - Apr 22, 1980 performer, source mat'l - Ziegfeld Follies of 1934 (Buddy Ebsen, Fanny Brice, Eve Arden); film With A Song In My Heart
George S. Irving 11/01/1922 - performer, husband of Maria Karnilova (1948 - 2001) her death - orig OKLAHOMA; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Carol Channing); Me and Juliet; orig Bells Are Ringing; Irma La Douce; Bravo Giovanni; Tovarich; Alfie! (Terence Stamp, Juliet Mills); The Happy Time; 1973 Irene; 1983 On Your Toes; 1986 Me and My Girl; So Long, 174th Street
Betsy Palmer (Patricia Betsy Hrunek)11/1/1929 performer - The Grand Prize; Affair of Honor (Doris Rich, James Hickman); Roar Like a Dove (Jessie Royce Landis); Cactus Flower (Lauren Bacall, Barry Nelson, Brenda Vaccaro); The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (David Selby, Shepperd Strudwick); TV panelist: I’ve Got a Secret, What’s It For, Masquerade Party; TV host: Today; actress: Knots Landing, The Last Angry Man, It Could Happen to Jane, Mr. Roberts, Friday the 13th series; Waltzing Anna (Margery Beddow); columnist: Chicago Tribune
A. R. Gurney 11/01/1930 writer - The Golden Age; Sweet Sue; Love Letters; The Dining Room; Sylvia; Later Life; Far East
Beth Fowler 11/01/1940 performer - Gantry (Robert Shaw, Rita Moreno); orig. A Little Night Music; Baby, Teddy & Alice; Beauty & the Beast; The Boy Fr Oz; Escape: 6 Ways to Get Away (2) (Mary-Louise Parker, Audra McDonald, Julianna Margulies, Sandra Bernhard)
Robert Foxworth 11/01/1941 performer, Husband of Elizabeth Montgomery (1/28/95 - 5/18/95) her death - 1969 Henry V (Len Cariou, Mary Doyle); 1972 The Crucible; 1997 Ivanov (Kevin Kline); Judgment at Nuremburg; August: Osage County [replacement]; tv's Falcon Crest; Law & Order; Boston Legal
Michael Zaslow 11/01/1944 - Dec 6, 1998 performer - 1974 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Keir Dulea, Eliz. Ashley); Boccaccio (Armand Assante); Onward Victoria (Jill Eikenberry); I seem to recall seeing him in a Off-Bway show about Cole Porter & Gertie Lawrence
Tom Bloom 11/01/1944 performer - Racing Demon (Dennis O'Hare); The Rehearsal (Roger Rees); 2007 Cyrano de Bergerac (Kevin Kline)
Beth Leavel 11/01/1955 performer - orig & 2001 42nd St.; Crazy For You; The Civil War (Matt Bogart, Michael Bell)l; Drowsy Chaparone; Young Frankenstein [replacement]
Michael Gruber 11/01/1964 performer - Miss Saigon; My Favorite Year; Swing; Jackie Mason's Laughing Room Only
Toni Collette 11/01/1972 performer - Michael John LaChiusa's The Wild Party; film's The Sixth Sense, Muriel’s Wedding, Clockwatchers, Diana & Me, 8½ Women; In Her Shoes; About a Boy; Little Miss Sunshine
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1604 William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" was first performed, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1920 Opening night for Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones, starring Charles S. Gilpin as a black man who goes to Africa with the intention of becoming head of a new empire there. It runs 204 performances at the Neighborhood Playhouse.
1937 Opening night of Amphitryon 38, S.N. Behrman's adaptation of Jean Giradoux's play, based on the Amphitryon legend, and starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne as Jupiter and Alkmena. It runs 153 performances at the Shubert Theatre.
1943 The Petrified Forest - E.G. Marshall, John McQuade, Wendell K. Phillips
1944 Elwood P. Dowd sees a large white rabbit tonight as Mary Chase's Harvey opens tonight at the 48th Street Theatre. The illustrious Dowd is played by Frank Fay, with his sister, Veta Louise Simmons, being portrayed by Josephine Hull. Staging was done by Antoinette Perry in this original production that ran for a whopping 1,775 performances on Broadway before transferring to London, where it would play only 610 performances with its star Sid Field. A movie version would be released in 1950 with screen legend James Stewart as Dowd. The comedy would win the 1944 Pulitzer Prize, but the New York Drama Critics Circle Award went to The Glass Menagerie.
1951 Opening night of Top Banana, starring Phil Silvers in a raucous Johnny Mercer musical set in the world of Burlesque. It runs 350 performances at the Winter Garden Theatre, earning Silvers the Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical.
1989 Sid Caesar & Company - Sid Caesar, Peter Shawn, Linda Hart, Lubitza Gregus (aka Luba Mason!), Erick Devine
1990 A revival of the 1926 musical Oh, Kay! opens tonight at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, but the locale has been changed from Long Island to Harlem, with an all-black cast led by Brian Stokes Mitchell. Clive Barnes calls it "surprisingly terrific" in the Post, but the revival -- David Merrick's last major producing project -- will run for only 77 performances.
1994 Eight gay men examine their lives as they take weekend holidays in the country in Love! Valor! Compassion!. This play, by Terrence McNally, uses humor on the surface but forces viewers to see that AIDS has become a shadow on the lives of contemporary human beings. Joe Mantello directs this production, opening tonight at the Manhattan Theatre Club. It will move to Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre in 1995.
2001 Patti LuPone stars in a major Broadway revival of Michael Frayn's Noises Off, which earns a Tony Award for comic actress Kate Finneran, and a run of nearly a year.
2007 Cyrano de Bergerac with Kevin Kline
ON THIS DAY IN:
1512 Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.
1961 The New York City Transit Authority commands producer David Merrick to remove 2,800 posters for his musical Subways Are for Sleeping from subway cars, fearing they might give some people the wrong idea about housing.
1954 "Norma" opened the first full season of Lyric Theatre, now Lyric Opera, of Chicago on Nov 1, 1954, where the late Maria Callas sang the title role in her American debut.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com, entertainment.earthlink)
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