Today's Birthdays 12/3

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Posted: 12/3/03 at 12:57pm

Joseph Conrad 12/3/1857 - 8/3/1924 author, source mat'l - Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness

Connie Boswell 12/3/1907 - 10/11/1976 performer - Boswell Sisters, & solo career

David Levin 12/03/1932 performer - orig The Diary of Anne Frank (Joseph Schildkraut, Susan Strasberg, Jack Gilford, Lou Jacobi)

Nicolas Coster 12/03/1934 performer - Ross (John Mills); The Ninety Day Mistress (Tony Lo Bianco, Dyan Cannon); Twigs - Emily [Original, Play, One Act] (Sada Thompson); Getting Married (Walter Bobbie)

Mary Alice 12/03/1941 performer - No Place to Be Somebody (Ed Van Nuys); Fences; 1994 The Shadow Box; Having Our Say (Gloria Foster)

Heather Menzies 12/03/1949 performer, wife of Robert Urich - We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Knight, Doris Rich, Alan Webb)

Vince Pesce 12/03/1966 Choreographer, Performer - Beauty & the Beast; Victor / Victoria (Julie Andrews); High Society ; 1999 Kiss Me, Kate; Little Shop of Horrors; Wonderful Town

Daryl Hannah 12/3/1960 performer - film's The Fury, Splash, Steel Magnolias, Blade Runner, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Roxanne, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, Grumpier Old Men, Diplomatic Siege, Dancing at the Blue Iguana

Julianne Moore 12/3/1961 performer - film's The Fugitive, Short Cuts, Nine Months, Lost World: Jurassic Park, Boogie Nights, Cookie’s Fortune, The Ladies Man, Hannibal

Brendan Fraser 12/3/1968 performer - The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, George of the Jungle, Encino Man, The Quiet American, Gods & Monsters

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1925 - The first jazz concerto for piano and orchestra was presented at Carnegie Hall in NYC. Commissioned by Walter Damrosch, American composer George Gershwin presented Concerto In F, and was also the featured soloist playing a flugelhorn in a slow, bluesy style as one of his numbers.

1947 A Streetcar Named Desire makes its historic stop at the Barrymore Theatre. Tennessee Williams' play stars Jessica Tandy, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden in what will be an 855-performance ride. It will go on to win the Drama Critics' Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

1960 Richard Burton's reign as King Arthur of Camelot begins tonight. This Lerner and Loewe musical was adapted from T.H. White's "The Once and Future King." Citizens of this enchanted land include Julie Andrews, Robert Goulet and Roddy McDowall.

1964 Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy opens at the Washington Square Theatre. The story involves a group of prisoners detained by Nazis in Vichy, awaiting deportation to concentration camps. The cast includes Hal Holbrook, David Wayne and Paul Mann.

1973 Bette Midler stars in her own one-woman show, which opens tonight at the Palace Theatre. Since the show was styled and reviewed as a concert rather than a Broadway show, it is classified as one by the Tony Awards committee. They bestow a special award to Midler for "superior concert entertainment on the Broadway stage."

As You Like It 12/03/1974 - Nigel Hawthorne, Michael Beint

ON THIS DAY IN:

1949 Philip Barry dies at age 53. Barry's wit was on view in works such as Holiday and The Philadelphia Story. An unfinished comedy Second Threshold, was completed by Robert Sherwood.

1967 The 20th Century Limited, the famed luxury train, completed its final run from New York City to Chicago.

2001 New York's landmark Drama Book Shop reopens in a roomier new location at 250 W. 40th Street, after a generation on Seventh Avenue and 48th Street.

(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)

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