Today's Birthdays 4/9
Today's Birthdays 4/9
#1Today's Birthdays 4/9
Posted: 4/8/07 at 9:15pm
Charles Baudelaire 4/9/1821 - 8/31/1867 French poet, translator and literary critic; his poems set to music by Debussy are exquisite; my fav CB poem: L'Invitation au Voyage
Sol Hurok 4/9/1888 - 3/5/1974 Producer, Presenter - Russian-born impresario; popularized classical ballet and music in America - Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens; 1954 A Midsummer Night's Dream (Moira Shearer, Sterling Holloway, Philip Locke); 1956 Romeo and Juliet (Claire Bloom, Jeremy Brett); 1958 King Henry V (Judi Dench, Joss Ackland, Laurence Harvey); Dear Liar (Katharine Cornell, Brian Aherne); Duel of Angels (Vivien Leigh); Nureyev and Friends
Paul Robeson 04/09/1898 - Jan 23, 1976 performer - Taboo; 1925 The Emperor Jones; Black Boy; 1932 Show Boat; John Henry; Othello; film's Body & Soul; Song of Freedom; Big Fella; Jericho
Elizabeth Allen 04/09/1908 - Jul 27, 1990 mother of Elizabeth Montgomery, wife of Robert Montgomery (April 14 ,1928 - 1950) divorced; performer - Dawn (Robert Montgomery); The Handy Man (Eugene Lockhart); Revolt
Avery Schreiber 04/09/1935 - Jan 7, 2002 director, performer - How to Be a Jewish Mother (Godfrey Cambridge, Molly Picon); Ovid's Metamorphoses (Lewis Arquette, Valerie Harper); Dreyfus in Rehearsal (Tovah Feldshuh, Sam Levene, Ruth Gordon); 1981 Can-Can (Zizi Jeanmaire, Pamela Sousa); Welcome to the Club (Marilyn Sokol, Jodi Benson, Bill Buell, Sally Mayes [debut], Scott Wentworth)
Michael Learned 04/09/1938 Godmother of Amanda Plummer; wife of Peter Donat (1956 - 1972) divorced, Glenn Chadwick (1975 - 1977) divorced, William Parker (1979 - present)performer - 1969 Three Sisters; The Loves of Anatol (Philip Bosco, Stephen Collins, [the wonderful] Pat Brooks; 2000Gore Vidal's The Best Man; film's Touched by Love; To Elvis, With Love; The Alarmist; Power; Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story; A Deadly Business
Brandon de Wilde 04/09/1942 - Jul 6, 1972 son of Frederic de Wilde, performer - The Member of the Wedding; Mrs. McThing (Helen Hayes, Ernest Borgnine, Fred Gwynne [debut]); The Emperor's Clothes; Comes a Day (Judith Anderson, Larry Hagman, Irene Ryan, Geo. C. Scott); A Race of Hairy Men!; film's Shane; In Harm's Way
Richard Alfieri 04/09/1952 Writer, Performer - Vieux Carré (Sylvia Sidney, Tom Aldredge); Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (Polly Bergen, Mark Hammill)
Bruce Winant 04/09/1957 Son of Ethel Winant, performer - Miss Saigon; My Favorite Year (Mary Stout, Josh Mostel, Evan Pappas, Michael McGrath, Nora Mae Lyng, Lainie Kazan); Ragtime; 2004 Fiddler on the Roof
Cynthia Nixon 04/09/1966 performer; Member of Drama Department. Best known as Miranda Hobbes on television's "Sex and the City". - 1980 The Philadelphia Story; The Real Thing; Hurlyburly; Indiscretions; The Women; Rabbit Hole; tv's Sex in the City; Gideon Oliver: Sleep Well Professor Oliver; Amadeus; 5th of July; The Manhattan Project
Shows that opened on this date:
1928 Mae West wrote, stages, and stars in Diamond Lil. Lil helps a Salvation Army captain break up a white slavery ring. The salvationist is also a police captain. What next for Lil? There will be 22 weeks at the Royale Theatre on Broadway to find out.
1954 Uta Hagen plays an advertising executive whose trials and tribulations highlight The Magic and the Loss. Julian Funt's drama also stars Robert Preston and Charles Taylor. There will be 27 performances at the Booth Theatre on Broadway.
1964 John Gielgud directs Richard Burton in Hamlet on Broadway, which will go on to a run of 137 performances. Also in the cast: Alfred Drake, George Rose, Barnard Hughes, John Cullum, Hume Cronyn, Gerome Ragni, and Gielgud himself as the Ghost.
1972 From the movie that made men turn into mush over Marilyn Monroe and made Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon turn into...women, comes the musical Sugar. The 1959 film "Some Like It Hot," in which Monroe played a girl named Sugar, is remade for the stage with the help of Jule Styne and Bob Merrill. The show opens at the Majestic Theatre and plays 505 performances with Tony Roberts and Robert Morse donning dresses and Elaine Joyce in the title role.
1978 It started out as an intimate revue at the Manhattan Theatre Club, but Ain't Misbehavin' moved to a new home at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. This evocation of Fats Waller's work and style will run into the next decade.
1995 Neil Simon's London Suite opens Off-Broadway at the Union Square Theatre. The play, consisting of four one-act plays all set in an old yet fashionable hotel, stars Carole Shelly, Kate Burton, Paxton Whitehead and Jeffrey Jones.
On this day in:
On April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
1939 Singer Marian Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after she was denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
1959 NASA announced the selection of America's first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
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