Today's Birthdays 11/29
Today's Birthdays 11/29
Today's Birthdays 11/29#1
Posted: 11/28/07 at 6:12pm
Gaetano Donizetti 11/29/1797 - 4/8/1848 Italian opera composer - Lucia di Lammermoor; The Daughter of the Regiment; L'elisir d'amore; Roberto Devereux; Don Pasquale
Louisa May Alcott 11/29/1832 - 3/6/1888 the American author of the classic "Little Women", source mat'l - Little Women (Carson Davenport) & 2004 musical version
Busby Berkeley 11/29/1895 - Mar 14, 1976 legendary film choreographer whose career will be launched with a 12-show burst of creativity on Broadway between the end of 1926 and the beginning of 1930 (including A Connecticut Yankee, Street Singer (Cesar Romero), The International Review (Gertrude Lawrence) and Good Boy) before he's whisked off to Hollywood to do films like the original 42nd Street. His Broadway swan song will be 1971's No, No, Nanette (Helen Gallagher, Patsy Kelly, Susan Watson, Bobby Van, Ruby Keeler, Jack Gilford).
C.S. Lewis 11/29/1898 - 11/22/1963 English writer and scholar, source mat'l - Narnia
Billy Strayhorn 11/29/1915 - 5/31/1967 Orchestrator, Composer, Lyricist - Beggar's Holiday; Bubbling Brown Sugar; Sophisticated Ladies
Michael Kermoyan 11/29/1921 - Sep 21, 1994 performer - Whoop Up; Happy Town (Rita Golden); orig Camelot; The Happiest Girl in the World; Tovarich; Something More! (Barbara Cook, Paula Kelly); Anya (Constance Towers); The Guide
Dagmar [Virginia Ruth Egnor] 11/29/1921 - Oct 9, 2001 performer - Laffing Room Only (Betty Garrett, Dolores (Dodi) Goodman, Buddy Rogers); Burlesque (Bert Lahr, Bobby Barry)
Laurie Main 11/29/1929 performer - First Impressions (Polly Bergen, Hermione Gingold, Stuart Damon); Jolly's Progress (Eartha Kitt, Wendall Cory); Lord Pengo (Charles Boyer, Brian Bedford, Agnes Moorehead); 13 Rue de l'Amour (Louis Jourdan)
Diane Ladd 11/29/1932 performer, mother of Laura Dern, wife of Bruce Dern (1960 - 1969) divorced - Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights (Louis Gossett, Cicely Tyson); A Texas Trilogy: Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander; film's, etc. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Rambling Rose, The Cemetery Club, Chinatown, Father Hood, Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, The Grace Kelly Story, Desperate Lives, I Married a Centerfold, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Alice
Frank Galati 11/29/1943 Writer, Director - Grapes of Wrath (Gary Sinise); 1994 The Glass Menagerie; Ragtime; Seussical (Was replaced in previews); The Pirate Queen
Hinton Battle 11/29/1956 performer - Something Different (Linda Lavin, Claudia McNeil); The Wiz; Sophisticated Ladies; The Tap Dance Kid; Miss Saigon; Chicago [replacement]
Andrew McCarthy 11/29/1962 performer - The Boys of Winter (Ving Rhames, Matt Dillon, Wesley Snipes, Doug Hara)
Kim Delaney 11/29/1961 performer - tv's, etc. Emmy Award-winning actress: NYPD Blue [1997]; Philly, All My Children, The Delta Force, Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit, The Drifter, Darkman II: The Return of Durant, Mission to Mars; The O.C.; CSI: Miami; Army Wives
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1825 - Rossini’s Barber of Seville was presented in New York City. It was the first Italian opera to be presented in the United States.
1932 - The Gay Divorcee opened in New York City. The Cole Porter musical featured the classic, Night and Day.
1948 - The first opera to be televised was broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Othello, by Verdi, was presented over WJZ-TV in New York
1951 Don Juan in Hell with Charles Boyer, Cedric Hardwicke, Agnes Moorehead & Charles Laughton
1956 Bells Are Ringing with Judy Holliday, Sidney Chaplin, George S. Irving, Jean Stapleton & Jack Weston
1962 Harold with Anthony Perkins, John Fiedler
1965 Anya with Constance Towers, Steven Boockvor, Michael Kermoyan, Irra Petina, John Michael King, Ed Steffe, George S. Irving
1967 Everything in the Garden with Barbara Bel Geddes, M'el Dowd, Barry Nelson, Richard Thomas
1992 The Seagull with Tyne Daly, Tony Roberts, Danny Burstein, Jon Voight, Laura Linney
ON THIS DAY IN:
1924 Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels
1981 Actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, Calif., at age 43.
1986 Actor Cary Grant died at age 82. Grant, one of the most debonair of Hollywood’s leading men, left us with many great cinematic performances: Night and Day, Arsenic and Old Lace, She Done Him Wrong, The Awful Truth, The Philadelphia Story, To Catch a Thief, North by Northwest, some more of my favs Mr. Lucky, Penny Serenade, My Favorite Wife
2001 Rock musician George Harrison of the Beatles died in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer; he was 58.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
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