Today's Birthdays 3/22 HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. SONDHEIM

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 3/21/07 at 11:00pm

Joseph Schildkraut 03/22/1895 - Jan 21, 1964 performer - Liliom; The Firebrand (Frank Morgan, Edward G. Robinson); Alice in Wonderland (Howard Da Silva, Eva Le Gallienne, Burgess Meredith); Clash by Night (Tallulah Bankhead, Lee J. Cobb); The Diary of Anne Frank (Susan Strasbergm, Jack Gilford, Lou Jacobi, Dennie Moore)

Karl Malden Mladen Sekulovich [Birthname] 03/22/1919 performer – origs Golden Boy; Key Largo; All My Sons; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Desperate Hours; The Egghead; tv’s & film’s Streets of San Francisco; Kiss of Death; Where the Sidewalk Ends; Ruby Gentry; On the Waterfront; Baby Doll; Pollyanna; One-Eyed Jacks; Gypsy; The Cincinnati Kid; Nevada Smith; Hotel; Patton

Werner Klemperer 03/22/1920 - Dec 6, 2000 performer; accomplished violinist & conductor; married to Kim Hamilton; son of brilliant conductor Otto Klemperer - Heads or Tails (Les Tremayne); 1950 Twentieth Century (José Ferrer. Gloria Swanson); The Night of the Tribades (Bibi Andersson, Aileen Atkins, Max Von Sydow); 1987 Cabaret; tv’s & film’s Hogan’s Heros [Although he was most famous for playing a colonel in the German army, Klemperer's family were German Jews who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s.]; Judgment at Nuremberg; Ship of Fools; The Goddess

Ross Martin 03/22/1920 - Jul 3, 1981 performer - Hazel Flagg (Helen Gallagher, Sheree North); Shinbone Alley (Eddie Bracken, Eartha Kitt, Erik Rhodes, Reri Grist. standbys Chita Rivera & Tom Poston); tv's & film's Wild, Wild West; Experiment in Terror; The Great Race

Marcel Marceau 03/22/1923 performer - Marcel Marceau; Marcel Marceau on Broadway; tv's & film's Silent Movie [in which he speaks the only word spoken in the movie: "No."]; Barbarella

Lionel Wilson 03/22/1924 - Apr 30, 2003 performer - Kiss and Tell [replacement](Betty Caulfield, Richard Widmark); Fragile Fox; tv's & film's The Aldrich Family; specialized in voices for animation & featured on a number of Peter Pan children's record albums: Tom Terrific; Deputy Dawg; The Enchanted Journey

Stephen Sondheim 03/22/1930 Lyricist, Composer, Writer - Girls of Summer; West Side Story; Gypsy; Invitation to a March; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Anyone Can Whistle; Do I Hear a Waltz?; Company; Follies; Twigs; A Little Night Music; Pacific Overtures; Sweeney Todd; Side by Side by Sondheim; The Madwoman of Central Park West; Merrily We Roll Along; Sunday in the Park with George; Into the Woods; Jerome Robbins' Broadway; Passion; Getting Away With Murder; Candide; Putting It Together; The Frogs; Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life

William Shatner 03/22/1931 performer - Tamburlaine the Great; The World of Suzie Wong; A Shot in the Dark (Gene Saks, Julie Harris, Walter Matthau); tv's & film's Twilight Zone; Star Trek; Boston Legal; T.J. Hooker; Little Women (Dorothy McGuire, Greer Garson, Susan Dey, Meredith Baxter, Robert Young); Alexander The Great [he played Alexander] (Adam West, John Cassavettes, Joseph Cotton); The Brothers Karamazov; Billy Budd; Boston Legal

Richard Easton 03/22/1933 performer - 1957 The Country Wife (Ludi Claire, Laurence Harvey, Julie Harris, Colleen Dewhurst); Back to Methuselah (Tyrone Power Jr., Arthur Treacher); 1963 The School for Scandal (John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson); Pickwick (Keith Perry, Charlotte Rae, Elizabeth Parrish); Pantagleize [dir. John Houseman]; Exit the King {Eva Le Gallienne; Patricia Conolly); 1968 The Cherry Orchard (Uta Hagen, Nancy Walker, Donald Moffat); 1968 The Misanthrope; 1969 Cock-A-Doodle Dandy (Barry Bostwick, Frances Sternhagen); 1969 Hamlet (Barry Ellis); Murderous Angels (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Gossett); The Invention of Love (Robert Sean Leonard); Noises Off (Patti LuPone, Peter Gallagher, Faith Prince, Katie Finneran); 2003 Henry IV (Kevin Kline, Ethan Hawke, Dana Ivey, Byron Jennings, Audra McDonald); 2004 The Rivals (Brian Murray); The Coast of Utopia 1, 2, 3

Brandt Edwards 03/22/1947 performer - A Chorus Line; 42nd Street

Andrew Lloyd Webber 03/22/1948 Producer, Writer, Arranger, Composer, Orchestrator; husband of Sarah Brightman (1984 - 1990) divorced; Jesus Christ Superstar; Evita; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Cats; Song and Dance (Bernadette Peters, Gregg Burge, Scott Wise, Christopher d'Amboise); Starlight Express; The Phantom of the Opera; Aspects of Love; La Bête; Sunset Blvd; By Jeeves; Bombay Dreams; The Woman in White; film's Evita; The Phantom of the Opera

Tommy Hollis 03/22/1954 - Sep 13, 2001 performer - The Piano Lesson; 7 Guitars; Ragtime; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Lena Olin 3/22/1955 (imdb says 1956) performer - tv's & film's Alias, Enemies: A Love Story, Havana, Fanny & Alexander; Casanova; Alias

Scott Fowler 03/22/1967 performer - Jerome Robbins' Broadway; Ain't Broadway Grand; The Red Shoes; Swing!; Movin' Out

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1945 The Firebrand of Florence

1962 Barbra Streisand and Elliot Gould star in I Can Get It For You Wholesale at the Shubert in New York. Jerome Weidman adapts his own book with songs by Harold Rome. Arthur Laurents stages.

1972 The Selling of the President with Karen Morrow

1987 The Nerd with Peter Riegert, Mark Hamill

1990 John Steinbeck's contemporary classic novel is turned into a stageplay as The Grapes of Wrath opens at the Cort Theatre. The Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of Frank Galati's adaptation stars Terry Kinney and Gary Sinise.

1992 Conversations With My Father with Jason Biggs [debut], Judd Hirsch, Tony Shalub, David Margulies, Marilyn Sokol

2007 Curtains with David Hyde Pierce, Debra Monk, Karen Ziemba, Jason Danieley, Noah Racey, Edward Hibbert, Jill Paice, Megan Sikora, Michael McCormick, Ernie Sabella, Michael X. Martin and John Bolton. Book by Rupert Holmes (multiple Tony Award®-winner for The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Say Goodnight Gracie), music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb (the Tony Award®-winning songwriters of Cabaret, Chicago, and New York, New York), original book and concept by Tony Award®-winner Peter Stone (1776, Titanic, and The Will Rogers Follies), and additional lyrics by John Kander & Rupert Holmes. The story unfolds backstage at Boston’s Colonial Theatre in 1959, where a new musical could be a Broadway smash, were it not for the presence of its talent-free leading lady. When the hapless star dies on opening night during her curtain call, Lieutenant Frank Cioffi (David Hyde Pierce) arrives on the scene to conduct an investigation. But the lure of the theatre proves irresistible and after an unexpected romance blooms for the stage-struck detective, he finds himself just as drawn toward making the show a hit, as he is in solving the murder.

ON THIS DAY IN:

1882 Congress outlawed polygamy.

1895 In what is generally regarded as the first public display of a movie projected onto a screen, Auguste and Louis Lumiere showed their first movie to an invited audience in Paris.

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

Milla
Updated On: 3/22/07 at 11:00 PM

Posted: 3/21/07 at 11:13pm

& Patti LuPone on UGLY BETTY makes the perfect gift!

[C is for Company]

Posted: 3/21/07 at 11:15pm

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVIE

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 3/21/07 at 11:17pm

Happy Birthday to a true treasure of Broadway!

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 3/21/07 at 11:22pm

Blow out your candles Stevie
want Something
want SOMETHING.

What a treasure to celebrate his birth.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 3/21/07 at 11:22pm

It is also Andrew Loyd Webbers birthday!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/21/07 at 11:34pm

I've heard of this Sondheim chap. Quite talented.

[Kringas]

Posted: 3/21/07 at 11:44pm

To you he's Stephen Sondheim, to me he's the guy who wrote, "As I said to the abbot, 'I'll get in the habit, but not in the habit.' "

Oh yeah, and he wrote that one about the old ladies that I kind of liked.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 3/21/07 at 11:47pm

Happy Birthday, Sir!

[kyle.]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 12:26am

YAY! It's my birthday too!

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 12:48am

Yeah I saw that LUCY Episode
"She's a my Birthday too"

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 1:13am

Bows down to Mr. Sondheim. A most happy birthday to Him.

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 4:45pm

Happy Birthday to all. Make it magical.

Just updated today's entry to reflect that it's Opening Night for CURTAINS. Break legs!

Milla