Today's Birthdays 2/13

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 11:32pm

Eileen Farrell 2/13/1920 - 3/23/2002 1 of my inspirations, performer - soprano: 1940s radio performer; San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Metropolitain Opera; also successful singing, recording popular music and jazz; dubbed for Eleanor Parker in Interrupted Melody, bio pic about Marjorie Lawrence

Kim Novak 2/13/1933 performer - tv's & film's Picnic; The Third Girl from the Left; Falcon Crest; The Man with the Golden Arm; Pal Joey; my favs: Bell Book and Candle, Vertigo

George Segal 02/13/1934 performer - Gideon (Fredric March); Rattle of a Simple Man (Tammy Grimes, Edward Woodward); Requiem for a Heavyweight; tv's & film's Bloom in Love; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Touch of Class, King Rat, Look Who’s Talking Now, Taking the Heat, The Bridge at Remagen, Just Shoot Me

Susan Oliver 02/13/1936 performer - Small War on Murray Hill (Warner LeRoy, Jan Sterling); Patate (Tom Ewell)

Oliver Reed 2/13/1938 - 5/2/1999 performer - tv's & film's The Prince and the Pauper, Women in Love, Oliver!, The Jokers; Gladiator; The 4 Musketeers

Tanny McDonald 02/13/1939 - Jan 25, 2004 performer; Wife of Robert D. Currie (divorced) - Come Summer; Clothes for a Summer Hotel (Geraldine Page, David Canary); 1992 Man of La Mancha; 1994 Medea

John Towey 02/13/1940 performer - Paris Is Out! (Zina Jasper [great gal], Molly Picon, Sam Levene); 1999 Amadeus (David Suchet)

Carol Lynley 02/13/1942 performer - The Potting Shed (Dame Sybil Thorndike); Blue Denim (Chester Morris); Absurd Person Singular [replacement]; tv's & film's Mr. Ed, The Poseidon Adventure, Return to Peyton Place, The Stripper, Fantasy Island, Spirits

Jerry Springer 02/13/1944 Former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, performer, source mat'l Jerry Springer The Opera - 2000 The Rocky Horror Show [replacement]

Stockard Channing (Susan Antonia Williams Stockard [Birthname]) 02/13/1944 performer - Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Golden Age (Irene Worth, Jeff Daniels); The House of Blue Leaves; Six Degrees of Separation; tv's & film's West Wing, Out of Practice; Stockard Channing in Just Friends, The Stockard Channing Show, Up Close and Personal, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh, Grease

David Naughton 02/13/1951 brother of James Naughton, uncle of Keira Naughton, performer, stage mgr - 1975 Hamlet; Da (Barnard Hughes, Brian Murray); tv's & film's Bodybags, An American Werewolf in London, Overexposed, My Sister Sam, Makin’ It, At Ease

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1957 Tom Ewell, Nancy Olson, and Darren McGavin navigate The Tunnel of Love at the the Royale Theatre. Joseph Fields directs and helps adapt Peter De Vries' novel. This comedy will sail for 417 performances.

1963 City Center Light Opera revives Bernstein, Comden, Green, Fields & Chodorov's Wonderful Town for 16 performance. Featured performers include Kaye Ballard and Gabriel Dell.

1973 El Grande de Coca Cola stars Ron House as a nightclub owner whose family poses as famous stars to entertain the customers. It will run for 1,114 performances at the Mercer Arts Theatre in New York.

1983 Hoping to follow up his success in The Magic Show, magician Doug Henning plays the title role in the musical Merlin at the Mark Hellinger Theatre. The show runs six months, and is regularly stolen by Chita Rivera, who plays the villainous Queen, and by a young actor named Nathan Lane, who has just his second Broadway role, as her son, Prince Fergus.

1996 Jonathan Larson's alt-rock musical Rent opens Off Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop. The show by the late playwright transfers to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre where it garners Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Score. It also is awarded the year's Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

1997 An all-star Broadway revival of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, opens at the Criterion Theatre. The cast features Amy Irving, Lili Taylor, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Calista Flockhart, Billy Crudup, David Strathairn, Jerry Stiller, and Eric Stoltz.

ON THIS DAY IN:

1542 The fifth wife of England's King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery.

1914 - The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (known as ASCAP) was formed in New York City. The society was founded to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.

1988 - The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, purchased a Santa Ynez CA ranch. He later named it Neverland and it now houses an amusement park, a full size movie theatre, and a zoo.

2000 Charles Schulz's final "Peanuts" strip ran in Sunday newspapers, the day after the cartoonist died at age 77.

2003 The New York City Council overrides a mayoral veto to ban cell phones in Broadway and Off-Broadway theatres, and other public cultural events. Offenders can face a fine of $50 and eviction from the venue in question. Pagers are also banned. Mayor Michael Bloomberg objects that the law will be impossible to enforce.

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

Milla

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 2/13/06 at 8:09pm

bump

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 2/13/06 at 8:16pm

I do believe it is also Peter Gabriel's birthday...although it has been debated for years whether Mr. Gabriel was born on February 13 or May 13, 1950. (My assessment is that he is much more "Aquarius" than "Taurus.")

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/13/06 at 10:22pm

To Do Re Milla

I actually remember seeing El Grande De Coca Cola a million years ago. As I recall, it was a little piece of entertaining fluff