Today's Birthdays 6/2
Today's Birthdays 6/2
#0Today's Birthdays 6/2
Posted: 6/1/05 at 8:02pm
Martha Washington 6/2/1731 - 5/22/1802 American first lady (1789-1797), The woman behind the man. A millionairess in her own right 9 X's over!
Marquis de Sade (Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade) 6/2/1740 - 12/2/1814 author: Justine, source mat'l - The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
Sir Edward Elgar 06/02/1857 - Feb 23, 1934 composer "Pomp & Circumstance" - orig The Elephant Man [incidental music]
Thomas Hardy 6/2/1840 - 1/11/1928 English novelist and poet
Hedda Hopper 6/2/1890 - 2/1/1966 celebrity columnist; show biz gossip; radio commentator: The Hedda Hopper Show; hat collector; performer: Tarzan’s Revenge, Maid’s Night Out, Breakfast in Hollywood, Dracula’s Daughter
Johnny Weissmuller 6/2/1904 - 1/20/1984 American champion swimmer and actor; forever Tarzan; met him as a kid when he was on a promo tour for Shony's Big Boy; Lupe Velez's ex
Max Showalter 6/2/1917 - 7/30/2000 performer, wonderful guy, James Hammerstein intro'd us. The last time I spoke w/Max he was still revising Harrigan 'n Hart; he had great stories about Broadway & Hollywood - Very Warm for May; orig My Sister Eileen [replacement]; 1946 Show Boat (Jan Clayton, Carol Bruce; John Loves Mary (Tom Ewell, Nina Foch); Make Mine Manhattan (Sid Caesar); orig Hello, Dolly! [replacement]; The Grass Harp; Harrigan 'n Hart (Christine Ebersole, Harry Groener, Mark Hammil); film's With a Song in My Heart, Bus Stop, It Happened to Jane, The Music Man, Sixteen Candles, Racing with the Moon; Niagra
Milo O’Shea 6/2/1926 performer; love seeing him on the M104 & M5 - orig Dear World; The Comedians (John Lithgow, Armand Assante, David Margulies); Mass Appeal; Corpse! (Keith Baxter); Meet Me In St. Louis; film's The Playboys, Only the Lonely, Broken Vows, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Verdict, Sacco & Vanzetti, Paddy, Barbarella, Ulysses
Sally Kellerman 6/2/1937 performer, can it be that "Hot Lips" is 68!? - Breakfast at Tiffany's [never officially opened]; film's & tv's M*A*S*H, The Boston Strangler, Brewster McCloud, Fatal Attraction, Meatballs III, Murder Among Friends, Boris and Natasha, Columbo: Ashes to Ashes
Stacy Keach Jr. 6/2/1941 performer - Danton's Death (Roscoe Lee Browne, James Earl Jones, Louis Zorich); 1965 The Country Wife; 1968 King Lear (Lee J. Cobb); Indians (Charles Durning, Raul Julia, Sam Waterston); Solitary Confinement [this show sounds fascinating! Keach perf'd under 6 different psudonyms!]; The Kentucky Cycletv's & film's Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, Conduct Unbecoming, Sunset Grill, Texas, Road Games, The Long Riders, Brewster McCloud; narrator: Plague Fighters, Olympic Glory, Savage Seas, World’s Most Amazing Videos; host: Missing Reward, Case Closed
Marvin Hamlisch 6/2/1944 Composer, Arranger, Performer, Other, Musical Coordinator, Musical Supervisor - Funny Girl; Henry, Sweet Henry; Minnie's Boys; Seesaw; Liza; A Chorus Line; They're Playing Our Song; Up In 1 (Peter Allen, Corkey Hale); Smile; The Goodbye Girl; Sweet Smell of Success; Imaginary Friends; film's Academy Award-winning pianist, composer: for adapted score: The Sting [1973]; original score and song: The Way We Were [1973]; Grammy Award-winner: The Way We Were & Best New Artist; Tony Award-winner: A Chorus Line [1976]
Jerry Mathers 6/2/1948 performer - tv's & film's Leave It to Beaver, The Trouble with Harry [he was positively a-dorable in this movie], Back to the Beach
Joanna Gleason 6/2/1950 performer; daughter of Monty Hall (of television's "Let's Make a Deal"); wife of Chris Sarandon (1994 - present) - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; I Love My Wife; Social Security; orig & 1997 Into The Woods; Nick & Nora; tv's & film's For Richer for Poorer, F/X 2: The Deadly Art of Illusion, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Heartburn, Into the Woods, Love & War, Hello Larry, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Boogie Nights, Bette
Dennis Hayesbert 6/2/1954 performer - tv's & film's President David Palmer on "24"; Far From Heaven; Absolute Power; Waiting to Exhale
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1954 Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel is revived for a ten-week run at the New York City Center. In the cast are Barbara Cook and Jo Sullivan.
1955 Michael Redgrave heads the cast in Tiger at the Gates. Christopher Fry's adaptation of Jean Giraudoux's La Guerre de Troi n' aura pas Lieu describes the Trojan hero Hector, and his determination to avoid a war with Greece. It will run for 13 weeks at London's Apollo Theatre.
1982 Conceiver-director Sheldon Epps adds a touch of blue to the Great White Way as his Blues in the Night opens on Broadway. The cast at the Rialto Theatre features Leslie Uggams, Debbie Shapiro, Jean DuShon and Charles Coleman. The musical centers on the three women's woes featuring 24 songs from various blues artists.
1999 Actor-composer-playwright and concert artist Hershey Felder will open his one-man show (with music) about George Gershwin at the Tiffany Theatre in W. Hollywood. George Gershwin Alone, under the direction of Joel Zwick, will make it to Broadway and open April 30, 2001.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1897 Mark Twain was quoted by the New York Journal as saying from London that "the report of my death was an exaggeration."
1941 Baseball's "Iron Horse," Lou Gehrig, died in New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
On June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI. 1953. The coronation of 27-year-old Queen Elizabeth II was broadcast from Westminster Abbey. The crowning of the new Queen of England became one of the first international news events to be given complete coverage on television. All three American TV networks plus the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) provided colorful descriptions of the pomp and circumstance. Most viewers saw the coronation in black and white because color TV was not yet the standard of the industry. There was no satellite TV transmission at the time. The ‘live’ pictures were relayed by shortwave radio.
1960 - For the first time in 41 years, the entire Broadway theatre district in New York City was forced to close. The Actors Equity Association and theatre owners came to a showdown with a total blackout of theatres.
1964 - The original cast album of Hello Dolly! went gold -- having sold a million copies. It was quite a feat for a Broadway musical.
1985 - The Huck Finn-based musical Big River earned seven Tony Awards in New York City at the 39th annual awards presentation.
2003 Producers pull the plug on a Broadway-bound revival of Little Shop of Horrors after its Florida tryout, and the planned Aug. 14 opening cancelled. Virtually the entire cast and production team is replaced, with only leading man Hunter Foster retained. Under new director Jerry Zaks, the production will open on Broadway in the fall, and Foster will be the lone person from the production nominated for a Tony Award.
(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
mikewood
Broadway Star Joined: 4/7/05
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Posted: 6/2/05 at 8:41am
Dennis Hayesbert 6/2/1954 performer - tv's & film's President David Palmer on "24"; Far From Heaven; Absolute Power; Waiting to Exhale >>>>
"It is bad, very, very bad to steal Jobu's rum."
And to not mention "Major League" when mentioning Dennis Hayesbert.
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
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Posted: 6/2/05 at 11:49amIn that 1954 City Center production of CAROUSEL, the role of Mrs. Mullin was played by opera singer Winifred Heidt...Karen Ziemba's grandmother.
Madame X
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/13/03
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Posted: 6/2/05 at 11:56amLove me some Joanna Gleason! Happy birthday to the baker's wife!
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