Today's Birthdays 3/2
Today's Birthdays 3/2
Today's Birthdays 3/2#1
Posted: 3/1/07 at 8:59pm
Sam Houston 3/2/1793 - 7/26/1863 the first president of the Republic of Texas, was born near Lexington, Va., not far fr where I grew up - source mat'l
Eduardo Cansino 03/02/1895 - Dec 24, 1968 performer; father of Rita Hayworth - The Greenwich Village Follies [1923]
Kurt Weill 03/02/1900 - Apr 3, 1950 Producer, Composer, Arranger, Orchestrator; Husband of Lotte Lenya (January 28, 1926 - April 3, 1950) his death - Threepenny Opera (Burgess Meredith, Robert Chisholm); Johnny Johnson; The Eternal Road; Knickerbocker Holiday; Lady in the Dark; One Touch of Venus; The Firebrand of Florence (Randolph Symonette, Lotte Lenya); Street Scene; Love Life; Lost in the Stars (Todd Duncan, Robert McFerrin); Happy End; A Kurt Weill Cabaret
Theodor Seuss Geisel 03/02/1904 - 9/24/1991 - source mat'l - Pulitzer Prize-winning author [1984]: The Cat in the Hat, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Green Eggs and Ham; Seussical; film's The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
Marc Blitzstein 3/2/1905 - 1/22/1964 Writer, Composer, Lyricist, Orchestrator, Director, Performer - 1930 Garrick Gaieties (Imogene Coca, Sterling Holloway); Parade (Eve Arden); 1937 Julius Caesar (Orson Wells, Joseph Cotton, George Coulouris); Pins and Needles; The Cradle Will Rock (Howard Da Silva, Will Geer); Danton's Death; Another Part of the Forest (Patricia Neal, Mildred Dunnock, Paul Ford); Androcles and the Lion (Efram Zibalist, Jr., Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach); The Cradle Will Rock (Jack Albertson, Alfred Drake, Vivian Vance); Regina (Jane Pickens, Brenda Lewis, William Warfield); Let's Make an Opera (Jo Sullivan, Randolph Symonette); 1950 King Lear (Tom Poston, Jo Van Fleet); 1954 Threepenny Opera (Beatrice Arthur, Lotte Lenya, Charlotte Rae, John Astin); Juno (Shirley Booth, Melvyn Douglas, Tommy Rall, Jean Stapleton, Sada Thompson); Toys in the Attic (Jason Robards, Jr., Maureen Stapleton, Irene Worth); A Kurt Weill Cabaret (Martha Schlamme, Alvin Epstein)
Martin Ritt 03/02/1914 - Dec 8, 1990 Director, Performer, Stage Manager - orig Golden Boy; The Man (Dorothy Gish, Peggy Ann Garner [debut], Richard Boone); A View From the Bridge (Eileen Heckart, Van Heflin, J. Carrol Naish, Leo Penn, Jack Warden); A Very Special Baby (Luther Adler, Sylvia Sidney, Jack Klugman, Jack Warden); film's Norma Rae, The Front, Sounder, Hud
Desi Arnaz 03/02/1917 - Dec 2, 1986 father of Lucie & Desi Jr. Arnaz, husband of Lucille Ball (1940 - 1960) divorced; co-owner of Desilu Productions; introduced 3-camera sitcom technique - Too Many Girls (Van Johnson); tv's I Love Lucy
Eddie Lawrence 03/02/1919 Writer, Lyricist, Director, Performer - origs Bells Are Ringing; Kelly; Sherry!; Animals
Jennifer Jones (Phyllis Isley) 3/2/1919 performer - film's Academy Award-winning actress: The Song of Bernadette [1943], Carrie, Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, The Towering Inferno; my favs: Since You Went Away; Portrait of Jenny (Joseph Cotton, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, David Wayne)
Lilo 03/02/1925 performer - Can-Can; Pousse-Café (Theodore Bikel, Charles Durning)
John Cullum 03/02/1930 I positively love this guy!, performer, father of John David Cullum, husband of Emily Frankel (1959 - present) - Tony Award-winning actor: Shenandoah [1975], On the Twentieth Century [1978]; orig Camelot; Infidel Caesar [never officially opened] (James Earl Jones, Robert Earl Jones, John Ireland, Ramon Novarro); Urinetown; 1964 Hamlet; 1983 Private Lives (Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton); The Boy's in Autumn (Geo. C. Scott); 2005 Candide at NYCO; Sin; Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!; 2007 110 in the Shade; tv's & film's Marie, Sweet Country, Northern Exposure, Secret Life of Algernon
Barbara Luna 03/02/1939 performer - origs South Pacific; The King and I; tv's & film's Have Gun Will Travel (Richard Boone); Zorro; Hawaiian Eye; The Devil at 4 O'Clock; Mail Order Bride; Ship of Fools; The FBI; Love, American Style; Hawaii Five-O; One Life to Live; Star Trek; Star Trek: New Voyages
Kevin McCollum 03/02/1962 Producer, husband of Michele Pawk (divorced), Lynnette Perry (1997 - present) - 1994 Damn Yankees; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; The Rise and Fall of Little Voice; Rent; 45 Seconds From Broadway; 2002 Private Lives (Lindsay Duncan, Alan Rickman); La Bohème; Avenue Q; The Drowsy Chaperone; High Fidelity
Bryce Dallas Howard 03/02/1981 performer; Daughter of Ron Howard - 2003 Tartuffe (J. Smith-Cameron, Brian Bedford, Kathryn Meisle, Henry Goodman); film's How the Grinch Stole Christmas; The Village; Lady in the Water; As You Like It
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1955 Harold Clurman directs Bus Stop. Kim Stanley and Elaine Stritch are two of the stranded passengers in this William Inge play.
1960 Don Ameche stars in the memorable flop 13 Daughters, with book, music and lyrics by Eaton Magoon. The show opens tonight and runs 28 performances at the 54th Street Theatre.
1975 Did anyone guess the careers Gilda Radner, John Belushi and Bill Murray would have? All three appeared in The National Lampoon Show at the Palladium in New York. This revue, directed by Martin Charnin, will run 23 weeks.
1989 Ken Ludwig's Lend Me a Tenor, starring Victor Garber, Philip Bosco and Tovah Feldshuh, opens on Broadway. Bosco, who will play at the Royale Theatre 11 years later in Copenhagen, wins a Tony for his turn in this production at the same theatre.
1995 Opening night for Smokey Joe's Cafe, the musical revue saluting the songs of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Directed by Jerry Zaks, the show will run 2.036 performances at the Virginia Theatre, making it the longest-running revue in Broadway history, save Oh! Calcutta.
2000 Susan Stroman and John Weidman's dance play Contact starts performances at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. The show, which sold out its Off- Broadway run at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, gained Broadway status (and Tony eligibility) in the move. It will officially open March 30 and win the Tony Award for Best Musical, despite using an entirely pre-recorded score of jazz music and pop tunes.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1923 Time magazine made its debut.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
re: Today's Birthdays 3/2#2
Posted: 3/1/07 at 10:04pm
these are so neat! you have got to do this for my birthday on the seventh! 
re: Today's Birthdays 3/2#2
Posted: 3/1/07 at 10:10pm
Those are so cool! My birthday is 3/2 also.
re: Today's Birthdays 3/2#4
Posted: 3/2/07 at 5:55pm
singinsilly, glad you enjoy these. I do them every day....
Milla
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