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Posted: 11/30/05 at 11:04pm
Rex Stout 12/1/1886 - 10/27/1975 mystery writer: Nero Wolfe series, source mat'l; tv’s Nero Wolfe
Cyril Richard 12/1/1897 - 12/18/1977 performer - Puzzles of 1925 (Helen Broderick [mother of Broderick Crawford], Walter Pidgeon); Jane (Edna Best); Peter Pan; A Visit to a Small Planet; The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd; Sugar (Elaine Joyce, Tony Roberts, Robert Morse); Tony Award-winning actor: Peter Pan [1955]; films: Hans Brinker, Half a Sixpence, Peter Pan, Blackmail; Kraft Television Theatre, Goodyear TV Playhouse
Mary Martin 12/1/1913 - 11/3/1990 performer; mother of actor Larry Hagman & Heller Halliday, wife of Ben Hagman (1929 - 1935) divorced, wife of Richard Halliday (1940 - 1973) his death - Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress, singer: Peter Pan [1955]; South Pacific, I Do! I Do!, Sound of Music, Night and Day, Star Spangled Rhythm, Birth of the Blues, Rhythm on the River
Dick Shawn 12/1/1923 - 4/17/1987 performer - The Egg; Peterpat; I'm Solomon (Ken Richards, Karen Morrow, Nick Dante); A Musical Jubilee (Lillian Gish, Tammy Grimes, Larry Kert, Pat Munsel, Jeanne Lehman); tv's & film's Bewitched, Rented Lips, Maid to Order, Check is in the Mail, The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud, Love at First Bite, The Producers, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Keith Michell 12/01/1928 performer - Irma La Douce; The Rehearsal; Abelard and Heloise (Dianna Rigg) [wish I'd seen this]; tv's & film's Australian-born actor who was featured on numerous occasions portraying roguish amateur sleuth Dennis Stanton on "Murder She Wrote". The Hellfire Club (Peter Cushing); Wuthering Heights (Claire Bloome); Cross Creek (Mary Steenburgen, Peter Coyote, Alfre Woodard)
Woody Allen 12/01/1935 writer, director, performer - From A to Z (Hermione Gingold, Alvin Epstein); Don't Drink the Water (Kay Medford, Anita Gillette, Donna Mills); Play It Again, Sam; The Floating Light Bulb; Academy Award-winning writer and director: Annie Hall [1977]; Radio Days, Alice; Academy Award-winning writer: Hannah and Her Sisters [1986]; actor, writer, director: Sleeper, Husbands and Wives, Annie Hall, Mighty Aphrodite, Manhattan Murder Mystery, New York Stories, Hannah and Her Sisters, Manhattan, Bananas; actor, writer: Play It Again, Sam, What’s New Pussycat?; actor: Scenes from a Mall, Casino Royale; comedy writer; Your Show of Shows, The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom
Bette Midler 12/01/1945 performer - replacement in orig. Fiddler on the Roof; Bette Midler; Bette Midler's Clams on the Half Shell Revue (vocal arr's Marc Shaiman, special mat'l Bruce Vilanch); Short Talks on the Universe - I Hate My Purse [Original, Play, One Act, Monologue]; Grammy Award-winning singer: LP: The Divine Miss M [1972], You are the Wind Beneath My Wings [1989]; Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, The Rose; Emmy Award-winning entertainer: Bette Midler-Old Red Hair is Back [1977-1978], The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson [5/21/1992]; actress: From a Distance, Beaches, For the Boys, Down and Out in Beverly Hill Business, Ruthless People, Hawaii, Fiddler on the Roof, Tommy, The Edge of Night, Gypsy
Treat Williams 12/01/1951 performer - Over Here!; Once in a Lifetime (Jayne Meadows, John Lithgow, Julia Duffy, Michael Jeter, Jerry Zaks); 2001 Follies; film's, etc. The Phantom, The Late Shift, Mulholland Falls, Final Verdict, J. Edgar Hoover, The Men’s Club, The Little Mermaid, Flashpoint, The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper, Prince of the City, Hair, The Eagle Has Landed, Eddie Dodd, Good Advice, Everwood
Ann Brown 12/01/1960 performer - 1996 Once Upon a Mattress; 1998 The Sound of Music; 2000 The Music Man
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1879 - Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S. Pinafore, opened. Arthur Sullivan conducted the orchestra while William Gilbert played the role of a sailor in the chorus and in the Queen’s Nay-vee.
1924 - Lady Be Good opened in New York City. George Gershwin wrote the music while Fred and Adele Astaire were well-received by the show’s audience for their dancing talents.
1930 Incidents from Emily Dickinson's life are the subject of Alison's House. Presented by New York's Civic Repertory Theatre, the play, written by Susan Glaspell, will later win a Pulitzer Prize.
1956 - CANDIDE opens at the Martin Beck Theatre with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Richard Wilbur, John La Touche & Dorothy Parker, and a book by Lillian Hellman (based on the novel "Candide" by Voltaire.) Directed by Tyrone Guthrie and choreographed by Anna Sokolow, it stars Robert Rounseville, Barbara Cook, Max Adrian and Irra Petina and runs for 73 performances.
1958 - Rodgers & Hammerstein produce their own new musical, FLOWER DRUM SONG, opening tonight at the St. James Theatre for a 600-performance run under the direction of Gene Kelly, and choreographed by Carol Haney. It stars Larry Blyden, Pat Suzuki, Juanita Hall, Ed Kenney, Keye Luke and Arabekka Hong. Also in the cast: Baayork Lee.
1971 - Opening night at the St. James Theatre for the Public Theatre's successful summer-in-the-park show TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, with a book adapted by John Guare & Mel Shapiro (from Shakespeare) ,music by Galt MacDermot and lyrics by Guare. Directed by Shapiro, the new musical stars Raul Julia, Clifton Davis, Jonelle Allen and Diana Davila. Also in the cast, as "Citizens of Verona and Milan," are Jeff Goldblum and Stockard Channing (making her Broadway debut.)
1968 - Promises, Promises opened on Broadway. The play ran for 1,281 performances, earning $35,000 in profits each week of 1969. Dionne Warwick had a hit version of the title song.
1973 - Closing date of the new musical RACHAEL LILY ROSENBLOOM AND DON'T YOU EVER FORGET IT (which never officially opened) at the Broadhurst Theatre after seven previews, with music & lyrics by Paul Jabara and a book by Jabara & Tom Eyen. Eyen directed and Tony Stevens choreographed star Ellen Greene. Also in the cast: Wayne Cilento, Andre De Shields, Anita Morris, Carole Bishop, Thomas Walsh and Jabara himself. Produced by Robert Stigwood & Ahmet Ertegun, the show was written for Bette Midler. She turned it down, but did attend the closing performance tonight (on her birthday), in spite of the fact she was readying her own upcoming show: BETTE AT THE PALACE.
1987 The Ritz (now the Walter Kerr) Theatre plays host to Penn Jillette and Ray Teller, whose Penn & Teller opens tonight and will go on to run for 130 performances.
1999 Liza Minnelli returns to Broadway with a salute to her father, film director Vincente Minnelli. Minnelli on Minnelli is presented at the Palace Theatre, where her mother, Judy Garland, had triumphed in solo concerts.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1919 Lady Astor was sworn in as the first female member of the British Parliament.
1955 After losing an eye in an operation three months earlier, Paul Muni returns to the cast of Inherit the Wind at the National Theatre. He is greeted by the audience and cast members with a standing ovation.
1955 Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, defied the law by refusing to give up her seat to a white man aboard a Montgomery, Ala., city bus. Parks was arrested, sparking a year-long boycott of the buses by blacks.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
Cyril Richard 12/1/1897 - 12/18/1977 performer - Puzzles of 1925 (Helen Broderick [mother of Broderick Crawford], Walter Pidgeon); Jane (Edna Best); Peter Pan; A Visit to a Small Planet; The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd; Sugar (Elaine Joyce, Tony Roberts, Robert Morse); Tony Award-winning actor: Peter Pan [1955]; films: Hans Brinker, Half a Sixpence, Peter Pan, Blackmail; Kraft Television Theatre, Goodyear TV Playhouse
Mary Martin 12/1/1913 - 11/3/1990 performer; mother of actor Larry Hagman & Heller Halliday, wife of Ben Hagman (1929 - 1935) divorced, wife of Richard Halliday (1940 - 1973) his death - Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress, singer: Peter Pan [1955]; South Pacific, I Do! I Do!, Sound of Music, Night and Day, Star Spangled Rhythm, Birth of the Blues, Rhythm on the River
Dick Shawn 12/1/1923 - 4/17/1987 performer - The Egg; Peterpat; I'm Solomon (Ken Richards, Karen Morrow, Nick Dante); A Musical Jubilee (Lillian Gish, Tammy Grimes, Larry Kert, Pat Munsel, Jeanne Lehman); tv's & film's Bewitched, Rented Lips, Maid to Order, Check is in the Mail, The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud, Love at First Bite, The Producers, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Keith Michell 12/01/1928 performer - Irma La Douce; The Rehearsal; Abelard and Heloise (Dianna Rigg) [wish I'd seen this]; tv's & film's Australian-born actor who was featured on numerous occasions portraying roguish amateur sleuth Dennis Stanton on "Murder She Wrote". The Hellfire Club (Peter Cushing); Wuthering Heights (Claire Bloome); Cross Creek (Mary Steenburgen, Peter Coyote, Alfre Woodard)
Woody Allen 12/01/1935 writer, director, performer - From A to Z (Hermione Gingold, Alvin Epstein); Don't Drink the Water (Kay Medford, Anita Gillette, Donna Mills); Play It Again, Sam; The Floating Light Bulb; Academy Award-winning writer and director: Annie Hall [1977]; Radio Days, Alice; Academy Award-winning writer: Hannah and Her Sisters [1986]; actor, writer, director: Sleeper, Husbands and Wives, Annie Hall, Mighty Aphrodite, Manhattan Murder Mystery, New York Stories, Hannah and Her Sisters, Manhattan, Bananas; actor, writer: Play It Again, Sam, What’s New Pussycat?; actor: Scenes from a Mall, Casino Royale; comedy writer; Your Show of Shows, The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom
Bette Midler 12/01/1945 performer - replacement in orig. Fiddler on the Roof; Bette Midler; Bette Midler's Clams on the Half Shell Revue (vocal arr's Marc Shaiman, special mat'l Bruce Vilanch); Short Talks on the Universe - I Hate My Purse [Original, Play, One Act, Monologue]; Grammy Award-winning singer: LP: The Divine Miss M [1972], You are the Wind Beneath My Wings [1989]; Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, The Rose; Emmy Award-winning entertainer: Bette Midler-Old Red Hair is Back [1977-1978], The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson [5/21/1992]; actress: From a Distance, Beaches, For the Boys, Down and Out in Beverly Hill Business, Ruthless People, Hawaii, Fiddler on the Roof, Tommy, The Edge of Night, Gypsy
Treat Williams 12/01/1951 performer - Over Here!; Once in a Lifetime (Jayne Meadows, John Lithgow, Julia Duffy, Michael Jeter, Jerry Zaks); 2001 Follies; film's, etc. The Phantom, The Late Shift, Mulholland Falls, Final Verdict, J. Edgar Hoover, The Men’s Club, The Little Mermaid, Flashpoint, The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper, Prince of the City, Hair, The Eagle Has Landed, Eddie Dodd, Good Advice, Everwood
Ann Brown 12/01/1960 performer - 1996 Once Upon a Mattress; 1998 The Sound of Music; 2000 The Music Man
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1879 - Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S. Pinafore, opened. Arthur Sullivan conducted the orchestra while William Gilbert played the role of a sailor in the chorus and in the Queen’s Nay-vee.
1924 - Lady Be Good opened in New York City. George Gershwin wrote the music while Fred and Adele Astaire were well-received by the show’s audience for their dancing talents.
1930 Incidents from Emily Dickinson's life are the subject of Alison's House. Presented by New York's Civic Repertory Theatre, the play, written by Susan Glaspell, will later win a Pulitzer Prize.
1956 - CANDIDE opens at the Martin Beck Theatre with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Richard Wilbur, John La Touche & Dorothy Parker, and a book by Lillian Hellman (based on the novel "Candide" by Voltaire.) Directed by Tyrone Guthrie and choreographed by Anna Sokolow, it stars Robert Rounseville, Barbara Cook, Max Adrian and Irra Petina and runs for 73 performances.
1958 - Rodgers & Hammerstein produce their own new musical, FLOWER DRUM SONG, opening tonight at the St. James Theatre for a 600-performance run under the direction of Gene Kelly, and choreographed by Carol Haney. It stars Larry Blyden, Pat Suzuki, Juanita Hall, Ed Kenney, Keye Luke and Arabekka Hong. Also in the cast: Baayork Lee.
1971 - Opening night at the St. James Theatre for the Public Theatre's successful summer-in-the-park show TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, with a book adapted by John Guare & Mel Shapiro (from Shakespeare) ,music by Galt MacDermot and lyrics by Guare. Directed by Shapiro, the new musical stars Raul Julia, Clifton Davis, Jonelle Allen and Diana Davila. Also in the cast, as "Citizens of Verona and Milan," are Jeff Goldblum and Stockard Channing (making her Broadway debut.)
1968 - Promises, Promises opened on Broadway. The play ran for 1,281 performances, earning $35,000 in profits each week of 1969. Dionne Warwick had a hit version of the title song.
1973 - Closing date of the new musical RACHAEL LILY ROSENBLOOM AND DON'T YOU EVER FORGET IT (which never officially opened) at the Broadhurst Theatre after seven previews, with music & lyrics by Paul Jabara and a book by Jabara & Tom Eyen. Eyen directed and Tony Stevens choreographed star Ellen Greene. Also in the cast: Wayne Cilento, Andre De Shields, Anita Morris, Carole Bishop, Thomas Walsh and Jabara himself. Produced by Robert Stigwood & Ahmet Ertegun, the show was written for Bette Midler. She turned it down, but did attend the closing performance tonight (on her birthday), in spite of the fact she was readying her own upcoming show: BETTE AT THE PALACE.
1987 The Ritz (now the Walter Kerr) Theatre plays host to Penn Jillette and Ray Teller, whose Penn & Teller opens tonight and will go on to run for 130 performances.
1999 Liza Minnelli returns to Broadway with a salute to her father, film director Vincente Minnelli. Minnelli on Minnelli is presented at the Palace Theatre, where her mother, Judy Garland, had triumphed in solo concerts.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1919 Lady Astor was sworn in as the first female member of the British Parliament.
1955 After losing an eye in an operation three months earlier, Paul Muni returns to the cast of Inherit the Wind at the National Theatre. He is greeted by the audience and cast members with a standing ovation.
1955 Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, defied the law by refusing to give up her seat to a white man aboard a Montgomery, Ala., city bus. Parks was arrested, sparking a year-long boycott of the buses by blacks.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
Updated On: 12/1/05 at 11:04 PM
