Today's Birthdays 4/24

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Posted: 4/24/04 at 7:57pm

Anthony Trollope 4/24/1815 - 12/6/1882 English novelist, source mat'l - Divorce; Barchester Towers

Stanley Kauffmann 4/24/1916 theatre critic: The New Republic: Stanley Kauffmann on Films; writer: Distinguishing Features : Film Criticism and Comment, Persons of the Drama : Theater Criticism and Comment; film/theater teacher: Yale School of Drama, CUNY Graduate Center, Adelphi University, Hunter College; author: Notes from a Dark Street

Cindy Adams 04/24/1930 performer; writes for NY Post - Burlesque (Bert Lahr); The Rocky Horror Show [replacement]

Shirley MacLaine 04/24/1934 performer; sister of Warren Beatty; sister-in-law of Annette Benning - Me and Juliet (Barbara Carroll, Joan McCracken ; The Pajama Game; Shirley MacLaine; Shirley MacLaine on Broadway; film's Academy Award-winning actress: Terms of Endearment [1983]; Emmy awards: Shirley MacLaine: If They Could See Me Now [1974], Gypsy in My Soul [1976], Shirley MacLaine... Every Little Movement [1980]; Irma La Douce, The Turning Point; sister of actor Warren Beatty

Barbra Streisand 04/24/1942 dir., performer; sister of Roslyn Kind, step-mother of Josh Brolin, wife of James Brolin (1998 - present), Elliott Gould (1963 - 1971) divorced - I Can Get It for You Wholesale; Funny Girl (Sydney Chaplin, Roger De Koven, Jean Stapleton); film's Academy Award-winning Best Actress: Funny Girl [1968]; I Can Get It for You Wholesale, The Owl and the Pussycat, Hello Dolly, Funny Lady, The Way We Were, Yentl; actress/director: Yentl, The Prince of Tides, The Mirror Has Two Faces

Peter Friedman 04/24/1949 performer, Husband of Joan Allen - The Great God Brown (John McMartin, Marilyn Sokol); Love for Love (Glenn Close, Mary Beth Hurt, Charles Kimbrough); Piaf (Jane Lapotaire, Zoë Wanamaker, Judith Ivey, Jean Smart); Execution of Justice (Wesley Snipes, Stanley Tucci); 1989 The Tenth Man (Phoebe Cates, Bob Dishy, Ron Rifkin, John Weston); Ragtime

Eric Bogosian 04/24/1953 performer - Broadway credits not available; film's Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Witch Hunt, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Special Effects; actor, playwright: Talk Radio, Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll: Eric Bogosian

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1944 Helen Goes to Troy and on her way stops at the Alvin Theatre on Broadway. The wonderful operasing & film star Jarmila Novotna is the Face in this version of Offenbach's La Belle Helene. Erich Wolfgang Korngold provides the music for Gottfried Reinhardt and John Meehan, Jr.'s libretto. It will run for three months.

1977 Al Pacino stars in David Rabe's The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. This revival, first mounted by the Theatre Company of Boston, will play on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre for more than 13 weeks.

1997 The new John Kander-Fred Ebb musical Steel Pieropens on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. Following mixed reviews and a shut-out (from 11 nominations) at the Tony Awards, the show will close on June 28, playing only 33 previews and 76 regular performances. Featured in the cast of the show centering on marathon-dancing in The Depression of the 1930s were Karen Ziemba, Gregory Harrison, Daniel McDonald and Debra Monk.

2000 Not only musicals flop. Elaine May's Taller Than a Dwarf, which began previews at Broadway's Longacre Theatre on March 24, officially opens tonight. The show will shut down June 11 after a short run of 37 previews and 56 regular performances. Matthew Broderick and Parker Posey starred as the harried young Queens couple; Alan Arkin directed.

ON THIS DAY IN:

1792 The French national anthem, ''La Marseillaise,'' was composed by Capt. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

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

Milla Updated On: 4/24/04 at 07:57 PM