Today's Birthdays 11/10
Today's Birthdays 11/10
#0Today's Birthdays 11/10
Posted: 11/9/05 at 9:12pm
Robert Devereux Essex 11/10/1567 - 2/25/1601 English soldier, source mat'l, close "friend" of Elizabeth I - Roberto Devereaux; The Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex (Richard White, Estelle Parsons); films The Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex (Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Nanette Fabray, Alan Hale, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Vincent Price, Henry Stephenson)
Oliver Goldsmith 11/10/1730 - 4/4/1774 (ibdb lists bd as 10/10, NYT as 11/10) Irish-born English writer - She Stoops To Conquer; The Two Roses (musical based on She Stoops To Conquer)
Claude Rains 11/10/1889 - May 30, 1967 performer - The Camel Through the Needle's Eye (Miriam Hopkins); The Good Earth (Nazimova); The Confidential Clerk (Ina Claire, Joan Greenwood); Night of the Auk [What's an Auk?] (Christopher Plummer, Wendell Corey, Dick York); film's Cassablanca; Mr. Skeffington, The Invisible Man, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
Jane Froman 11/10/1907 - 4/22/1980 performer, source material, singer: I Only Have Eyes for You, I’ll Walk Alone, I Believe; film's WITH A SONG IN MY HEART
Richard Burton 11/10/1925 - Aug 5, 1984 performer, father of Kate Burton, husband of Sybil Christopher (1948-1963) divorced; he left her for Elizabeth Taylor, husband of Susan Hunt (1976 - 1982) divorced, husband of Sally Hay (1983 - August 5, 1984) his death, husband of Elizabeth Taylor (March 15, 1964 - June 26, 1974) divorced; (remarried October 10, 1975 - August 1, 1976) divorced - The Lady's Not For Burning (John Gielgud, Pamela Brown); Time Remembered (Helen Hayes, Susan Strasberg, Stanley Grover); orig & 1980 Camelot; 1983 Private Lives (Eliz Taylor); fav film's My Cousin Rachel, The Taming of the Shrew, Desert Rats)
Marilyn Bergman 11/10/1929 Wife of Alan Bergman, lyricist, producer; Pres. & Chairman of the Board of ASCAP - Something More (Barbara Cook, Joan Bell, Joan Copeland, Hal Linden, Michael Kermoyan, Arthur Hill, Ronny Graham); Ballroom (Vincent Gardenia, Dorothy Loudon, Dorothy Danner, Dick Corrigan)
Roy Scheider 11/10/1932 performer - 1965 Tartuffe; Betrayal (Blythe Danner, Raul Julia); tv's & film's French Connection; Jaws; All That Jazz; seaQuest DSV
Pippa Scott 11/10/1935 performer - Child of Fortune (Betsy Von Furstenburg, Bert Bertram); Miss Lonelyhearts (Ruth Warrick, Anne Meara, Pat O'Brien, Fritz Weaver)
Tim Rice 11/10/1944 Writer, Lyricist, Source Material, Production Crew, knighted 1994 - Jesus Christ Superstar; Evita; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Chess; Beauty & the Beast; The Lion King; Aida; film score's Odessa File
Ann Reinking 11/10/1949 Choreographer, Director, Performer, partner of Bob Fosse, wife of Peter Talbert - Coco; Wild & Wonderful; Pippin; 1996 Chicago; Fosse; The Look of Love; film's All that Jazz, Annie, Mickey and Maude
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1920 Dudley Digges and Effie Shannon star in the U.S. premiere of George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House. It runs 250 performances at the Garrick Theatre.
1942 The year 1942 finds Katherine Hepburn and Elliott Nugent Without Love. The Theatre Guild presents this Philip Barry play, which will tour and then run 113 performances on Broadway.
1950 Uta Hagen and Paul Kelly star in the Broadway premiere of Clifford Odets' The Country Girl at the Lyceum Theatre. Hagen wins the 1951 Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play.
1960 Barbara Baxley, Robert Webber, James Daly, and Rosemary Murphy work through a Period of Adjustment. The Helen Hayes Theatre is home for the 132 performances of this Tennessee Williams play.
1964 Critics wanted a whole lot more from Something More!, a musical that ran only 15 performances at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. What they got was a well-received Barbara Cook but an otherwise apparently undistinguished show by composer Sammy Fain, lyricists Alan & Marilyn Bergman and librettist Nate Monaster. Jule Styne directed.
1965 Long before Driving Miss Daisy came the Broadway play-with-music, The Zulu and the Zayda, whose plot -- according to Best Plays annual -- may be summed up as, "the family of a frisky Jewish granddad hires a Zulu as a companion for him." The show, starring Menasha Skulnik, Ossie Davis and Louis Gossett, was supposed to open Nov. 9, but the East Coast black-out postponed the opening by 24 hours. Gentle reviews and Skulnik's lasting appeal from his Yiddish theatre days, carried the show to 179 performances.
1970 Danny Kaye as Noah? It worked for Richard Rodgers and Martin Charnin, whose musical retelling of Noah's Ark , Two by Two, begins a ten-month run. The production will be remembered for Kaye's increasingly wild improvisations and ad-libs, which were scarcely affected by a broken leg that caused him to play the part in a wheelchair.
1981 Oh, Brother!, Michael Valenti's musical based on The Comedy of Errors relocates Shakespeare's story of mistaken identity to revolutionary Iran. The taking of American hostages during its prep period did little to help its appeal, and it closed after just three performances, despite the presence of Judy Kaye, David Carroll, Harry Groener and Richard B. Schull.
1997 Jackie with Margaret Colin and Victor Slezak
ON THIS DAY IN:
1888 - Fritz Kreisler, a 13-year-old violinist from Vienna, made his American debut in New York City.
1969 "Sesame Street" made its debut on PBS.
2001 Author Ken Kesey ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") died at age 66.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
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