Today's Birthdays 4/27

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 4/27/08 at 11:25pm

Jack Cole 04/27/1914 - Feb 17, 1974 horeographer, Director, Performer - May Wine; Keep 'em Laughing (Hildegard, Zero Mostel [debut]); Allah Be Praised! (Patricia Morison); Magdelena; Kismet; Jamaica; Donnybrook; Kean; orig A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; orig & 1972 Man of La Mancha

Jack Klugman 04/27/1922 performer, Husband of Brett Somers (1953 - 1974) separated - 1952 Golden Boy; A Very Special Baby (Sylvia Sidney, Jack Warden); orig Gypsy; The Odd Couple [replacement]; The Sudden & Accidental Re-Education of Horse Johnson (Jill Clayburgh); The Sunshine Boys; tv's & film's Emmy Award-winning actor: The Defenders: Blacklist [1963-1964], The Odd Couple [1970-1971, 1972-1973]; Quincy, M.E., Twelve Angry Men, Days of Wine and Roses, Goodbye Columbus

Alan J. Pakula 04/27/1928 - Nov 19, 1998 Dir., Producer - Husband of Hope Lange (1963 - 1971) divorced - Comes a Day (Judith Anderson, Larry Hagman, Irene Ryan, George C. Scott); Jennie; film's Sterile Cuckoo; All the President's Men; Sophie's Choice; To Kill a Mockingbird

Sandy Dennis 04/27/1937 - Mar 2, 1992 performer - Face of a Hero; Any Wednesday; Absurd Person Singular; The Supporting Cast; Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Karen Black, Cher, Kathy Bates); film's Academy Award-winning actress: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff [1966]; The Execution, Splendor in the Grass

Judy Carne 04/27/1939 performer - The Boy Friend; tv's & film's Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In: “Sock It to Me!”; The Americanization of Emily, Only with Married Men, Love on a Rooftop, Kraft Music Hall Presents Sandler & Young, Fair Exchange, The Baileys of Balboa

Judith Blegen 4/27/1941 Opera singer, wonderful Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier with Te Kanawa & Troyanos

August Wilson 04/27/1945 - Oct 2, 2005 Producer, Writer - Gem of the Ocean (Phylicia Rashad); Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; Fences; The Piano Lesson; Seven Guitars; King Hedley II

Sheena Easton [Sheena Shirley Orr] 04/27/1959 performer - 1992 Man of La Mancha (Raul Julia); 1994 Grease [replacement]

Tracy Sallows 04/27/1963 performer - Shimada (Ellen Burstyn, Ben Gazzara, Mako, Estelle Parsons); 1990 The Miser; 1986 You Never Can Tell; tv's & film's Flannel Pajamas; Law & Order

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1960 West Side Story - Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence, Martin Charnin

1976 So Long, 174th Street - Rita Rudner, Loni Ackerman, Robert Morse

1978 Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July plays Off-Broadway at the Circle Repertory Theatre. William Hurt stars as disabled Vietnam veteran Kenneth Talley. It will be revived on Broadway in 1980.

1981 Woody Allen returns to Broadway for the first time in more than a decade with the play The Floating Light Bulb, about a young would-be magician growing up amid comic family problems. It runs 62 performances a the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, starring Danny Aiello and Beatrice Arthur.

1986 Debbie Allen stars as the Sweet Charity in the revival of the Cy Coleman-Dorothy Fields-Neil Simon musical that opens at the Minskoff Theatre. Bebe Neuwirth and Michael Rupert will win Tony Awards for their featured roles; the show itself will take home the Best Revival award.

1997 Cy Coleman returns to Broadway with the help of Ira Gasman and David Newman with their musical, The Life, opening at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. This show about the life of prostitutes in 1980s Times Square stars Pamela Isaacs, Kevin Ramsey and Lillias White.

2000 Just months after moving Contact to Broadway, director/choreographer Susan Stroman opens a revival of The Music Man with Craig Bierko and Rebecca Luker. It will run 699 performances.

ON THIS DAY IN:

1938 - Geraldine Apponyi was the first American woman to become a Queen. She married King Zog of Albania.

1963 American author, historian and film producer Kenneth MacGowan died today at the age of 74. From 1919 to 1925 he was editor of Theatre Arts Magazine. It was also during this time that he was associated with the Provincetown Playhouse. He is the author of many books including "A Theatre of Tomorrow" and "Footlights Across America."

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

Milla

[thatgirl712]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 7:55am

Happy birthday Jack and everyone else!