Today's Birthdays 5/13

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 12:27pm

Sir Arthur Sullivan 05/13/1842 - Nov 22, 1900 composer - Engaged; Trial by Jury; H.M.S. Pinafore; The Sorcerer; The Pirates of Penzance; Patience; Iolanthe; The Mikado; The Yeomen of the Guard; The Gondoliers; The Rose of Persia; The Emerald Island; Trial By Jury; Ruddigore; Cox and Box; Princess Ida; Thoroughly Modern Millie

Daphne Du Maurier 05/13/1907 - Apr 19, 1989 Source Material, Writer; daughter of Gerald Du Maurier, granddaughter of George Du Maurier - shows & film's Peter Ibbetson; Rebecca

Helen Craig 05/13/1912 - Jul 20, 1986 wife of John Beal (1934 - 1986) her death, performer - The Unconquered (Dean Jagger); Johnny Belinda (Horace McNally); 1941 As You Like It (Alfred Drake, John Lund); Lute Song (Mary Martin, Yul Brynner, Clarence Derwent); Land's End (Shirley Booth); orig The House of Bernarda Alba (Kim Stanley); More Stately Mansions (Ingrid Bergman, Coleen Dewhurst)

Gil Evans 5/13/1912 - 3/20/1988 Canadian-born composer and arranger

Bea Arthur (Bernice Frankel) 05/13/1923 performer, Wife of Gene Saks (1950 - 197 divorced - 1954 Threepenny Opera; Plain and Fancy; 7th Heaven (Gloria deHaven, Ricardo Montalban, Chita Rivera); Nature's Way (Orson Bean, Barry Newman, Betsy Von Furstenberg); orig Fiddler; orig Mame; The Floating Light Bulb (Danny Aiello, Jack Weston); Bea Arthur on B'way; tv's Maude; Golden Girls

Herbert Ross 05/13/1927 - Oct 9, 2001 Choreographer, Director, Performer, Other; husband of Lee Radziwill (1988 - 1999) divorced, Nora Kaye (1959 - 1987) her death - Beggar's Holiday (Zero Mostel, Alfred Drake); A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; 3 Wishes for Jamie; House of Flowers (John Raitt, Bert Wheeler, Anne Jeffreys); The Body Beautiful (Steve Forrest, Jack Warden); The Gay Life (Babs Cook, Jules Munshen, Luce Ennis [great gal, we did Music in the Air]) I Can Get It for You Wholesale; (Babs & Elliot); Tovarich (Vivienne Leigh); Anyone Can Whistle; Kelly; Do I Hear a Waltz?; On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; The Apple Tree; Chapter 2; I Ought to Be in Pictures (Ron Liebman, Joyce Van Patten); tv's & film's True Colors, My Blue Heaven, Steel Magnolias, Dancers, Footloose, Pennies from Heaven, California Suite, The Turning Point, The Goodbye Girl, The Sunshine Boys, Funny Lady, The Owl and the Pussycat; actor, director: Play It Again, Sam, Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Zohra Lampert 05/13/1937 performer - Maybe Tuesday; Look, We've Come Through (Burt Reynolds); First Love (Hugh O'Brien); Mother Courage and Her Children (Barbara Harris, Anne Bancroft, John Randolph, Gene Wilder); After The Fall; The Natural Look (Gene Hackman, Jerry Orbach, Doris Roberts, Brenda Vaccaro); Lovers and Other Strangers (Renee Taylor, Mary Louise Wilson, Dick Van Patten); Unexpected Guests (Jerry Stiller); film's Alan & Naomi, Splendor in the Grass

David Lipman 05/13/1938 performer - Fools (John Rubenstein); My Favorite Year; Ain't Broadway Grand

Harvey Keitel 05/13/1939 husband of Daphna Kastner (2001 - present) Lorraine Bracco (1982 - 1993) divorced; performer - 1975 Death of a Salesman (Geo. C. Scott, Teresa Wright, Julie Garfield); Hurlyburly (Wm Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Judith Ivey, Cynthia Nixon, Ron Silver, Jerry Stiller); film's Smoke, Pulp Fiction, Rising Sun, The Piano, Sister Act, Thelma and Louise, Bugsy, The Two Jakes, The Last Temptation of Christ, Death Watch, Blue Collar, Taxi Driver, Mother, Jugs and Speed, Shining Star, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Mean Streets, Holy Smoke

Zoë Wanamaker 05/13/1949 daughter of Charlotte Holland & Sam Wanamaker, performer; Though long a resident of the U.K., and with a flawless English accent, Zoe Wanamaker is a U.S. citizen, and thus was given an "honorary" Birthday Honour (C.B.E.) in 2000. - Piaf; 1986 Loot (Alec Baldwin); 1998 Electra; 2006 Awake and Sing!; tv's & film's Poirot; My Family; A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets; The Raggedy Rawney; Prime Suspect; Swept from the Sea;

Stevie Wonder (Stevland Morris) 5/13/1950 performer, composer, lyricist - Songs in the Key of Life is 1 of my top 10 albums of any kind of music.

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1946 Uncle Vanya - Margaret Leighton, Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson. Wowee! what a cast!

1954 - The Pajama Game made its debut on Broadway in New York City at the St. James Theatre. Harold Prince produced The Pajama Game, his first Broadway endeavor. The show ran for 1,063 performances. John Raitt and Janis Paige starred in the leading roles. Carol Haney came to national fame for her rendition of the song, Steam Heat. The movie version also starred Raitt -- along with Doris Day.

1973 Christopher Plummer noses his way into the Palace Theatre via a musical version of Cyrano. The Michael J. Lewis-Anthony Burgess show will win Plummer a Tony for Best Actor in a Musical.

1975 Rodgers & Hart - Tovah Feldshuh, Larry Guittard, Jimmy Brennan

1999 John Rando directs Erin Dilly and Clea Lewis in the new Off-Broadway comedy, Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight. Three couples find themselves in relationship turmoil at 3 AM in Peter Ackerman's comedy at the Promenade Theatre.

ON THIS DAY:

1607 The English colony at Jamestown, Va., was settled.

On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter's Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca. The Pope forgave him.

1984 - The Fantasticks, playing at the Sullivan Theatre in Greenwich Village in New York City, became the longest-running musical in theatre history with performance number 10,000 on this night. The Fantasticks opened on May 3, 1960.

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

Milla

[thatgirl712]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 1:36pm

Happy Birthday all!

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 1:43pm

Happy 85th Bernice!

[caitlinette]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 2:08pm

Can I add my name to that list? :)