Today's Birthdays 5/4
Today's Birthdays 5/4
#0Today's Birthdays 5/4
Posted: 5/3/05 at 8:43pm
Luther Adler 05/04/1903 - Dec 8, 1984 performer; brother of Charles, Jay, Julia, Stella, Florence & Frances Adler, half-brother of Celia & Abram Adler, husband of Julia Roche (? - ?), Sylvia Sidney (1938 - 1947) divorced, son of Jacob P. & Sara Adler - Humoresque (Laurette Taylor); Awake and Sing!; Waiting for Lefty (Sanford Meisner, Elia Kazan, Russell Collins); Golden Boy; The Russian People (Leon Ames); 1964 Three Sisters (Shirley Knight, Robert Loggia, Barbara Baxley, Kevin McCarthy, Geraldine Page); orig Fiddler on the Roof [replacement during Zero Mostel's vacation]
Howard Da Silva 05/04/1909 - Feb 16, 1986 performer - 1930 Romeo and Juliet
(Eva Le Gallienne, Donald Cameron, Robert Lewis, Burgess Meredith); The Cradle Will Rock; orig Oklahoma!; Compulsion; Fiorello!; Dear Me, The Sky is Falling (Ron Liebman); orig 1776; The World of Sholem Aleichem; film's The Lost Weekend, The Great Gatsby, Mommie Dearest, Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Audrey Hepburn 5/4/1929 - 1/20/1993 mother of Sean H. Ferrer, wife of Mel Ferrer (1954 - 196
divorced; performer - Gigi; Ondine (Marian Seldes, Mel Ferrer); film's War & Peace; Funny Face; Roman Holiday; Breakfast at Tiffany's; My Fair Lady; 2 For The Road; my fav Sabrina
Roberta Peters 5/4/1930 - opera soprano: Metropolitan Opera; Rigoletto [Gilda], Il Barbiere di Siviglia [Rosina]; films: City Hall, Tonight We Sing; Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards in Performing Arts [1997]
Pia Zadora 05/04/1954 performer - Midgie Purvis (Tallulah Bankhead, Red Granger); orig Fiddler on the Roof [replacement]; Henry, Sweet Henry (Don Ameche, Louise Lasser); Crazy for You [replacement]; film's Hairspray, Voyage of the Rock Aliens, Pajama Tops, The Lonely Lady, Fakeout, Butterfly, Naked Gun 33 1/3
Ana Gasteyer 05/04/1967 performer - 200 The Rocky Horror Show [replacement]; Actors' Fund Benefits: 2002 Funny Girl & 2004 Hair
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1943 Geraldine Fitzgerald, Gregory Peck, Stella Adler and Karl Malden are cast members in Sons and Soldiers. Irwin Shaw's drama about a woman told she might die if she has children is staged by Max Reinhardt. It will run for 22 performances at Broadway's Morosco Theatre.
1976 It will be a short visit to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Alan Jay Lerner's musical about former presidents and their wives lasts just seven performances. Leonard Bernstein composes the score.
1976 Side by Side by Sondheim is exactly that in this revue filled with songs by Stephen Sondheim. Ned Sherrin (who also stages), Millicent Martin, Julia McKenzie and David Kernan make up the cast at London's Mermaid Theatre. It will later move to Wyndham's Theatre for 781 performances.
1982 Playwright-director Athol Fugard's Master Harold...and the Boys opens on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre. The play involves a white South African boy and his two black servants and stars Lonny Price, Zakes Mokae and Danny Glover.
1992 Mike Nichols and Elaine May: Together Again on Broadway
1993 Tony Kushner's Angels in America: Millennium Approaches opens at the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway. This first half of Kushner's soon-to-be Pulitzer and Tony Award-winner stars Ron Leibman, Joe Mantello, Marcia Gay Harden, Stephen Spinella and Kathleen Chalfant.
1999 Having begun March 12, 1987, the Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg musical Les Miserables reaches its 5,000th performance tonight. As of March 1999, nearly 400 shows had closed on Broadway since Les Miserables opened, and the on-stage turntable had made a dizzying 159,744 revolutions. The show will close in spring 2003.
2003 The Look of Love with Liz Calloway, Jonathan Dokuchitz, Shannon Lewis, Rachelle Rak, Eugene Fleming - Woops
ON THIS DAY IN:
1964 - The Pulitzer Prize jury failed for the first time to award winners in the areas of fiction, drama and music. Hey some days are like that...
On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on anti-war protesters at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others. Unforgettable!
(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
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