Today's Birthdays 6/5 Late Edition

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Posted: 6/6/08 at 3:47pm

Pancho Villa 6/5/1878 - 7/20/1923 source mat'l We Take The Town - film's Life of Villa; The Life of General Villa; Following the Flag in Mexico

Federico Garcia Lorca 6/5/1898 - 8/19/1936 Spanish poet and dramatist

Tony Richardson 6/5/1928 - 11/14/1991 English stage and screen director, Father of Natasha & Joely Richardson, husband of Vanessa Redgrave (1962 - 1967) divorced - Look Back in Anger (Alan Bates, Vivienne Drummond, Jack Livesey); The Entertainer (Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright); Requiem for a Nun (Zachary Scott); A Taste of Honey (Angela Lansbury, Billy Dee Williams); Natural Affection (Tom Bosley, Kim Stanley, Harry Guardino); Luther (Albert Finney); orig Arturo Ui; 1964 The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (Tallulah Bankhead, Tab Hunter, Marion Seldes); The Lady from the Sea (Vanessa Redgrave, Pat Hingle); film's Academy Award-winning director: Tom Jones [1963]; A Taste of Honey, The Phantom of the Opera, Charge of the Light Brigade, The Entertainer, The Hotel New Hampshire

Spalding Gray 6/5/1941 - 1/10/2004 performer, a sad ending - 1988 Our Town; Monster in a Box; Gray's Anatomy (Roberta Maxwell, Shane Culkin, Eric Stoltz); It's a Slippery Slope; Morning, Noon & Night; Gore Vidal's The Best Man; tv's & film's The Nanny, Diabolique, Beyond Rangoon, Bad Company, King of the Hill, Our Town, Beaches, Swimming to Cambodia, True Stories, The Killing Fields, Hard Choices; screenwriter, actor: Monster in a Box

Colm Wilkinson 06/05/1944 performer - Les Misérables. What became of this meteor?

David Hare 06/05/1947 writer, director, performer - The Year of Magical Thinking; The Vertical Hour; Plenty; The Secret Rapture;Skylight; Ivanov (adapted by DH); The Judas Kiss; The Blue Room Nicole Kidman (Iain Glen (yumm!); Via Dolorosa; Amy's View (Judi Dench){I had tix for this, but show was cancelled, ach!]

Ellen Foley 6/5/1951 Performer, Composer, Lyricist; wife of Douglas Bernstein - 1977 Hair; Leader of the Pack; Me and My Girl [replacement]; Into the Woods [replacement]

Nicolette Goulet 6/5/1956 performer, daughter of Robert Goulet & 1st wife Louise Longmore. - tv's & film's Ryan's Hope; As the World Turns; The Guiding Light; A Walk with Death

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1980 The Music Man with Dick Van Dyke, Meg Bussert

1994 Gray's Anatomy with Spalding Gray

1997 Moisés Kaufman's Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde transfers from Off-Off-Broadway to open at Off-Broadway's Minetta Lane Theatre. Michael Emerson stars as the playwright alongside William Dawes, Robert Blumfield, Trevor Anthony, John McAdams, Andy Paris, Greg Pierotti, Troy Sostillio and Greg Steinbruner.

2001 Chita Rivera launches a national tour of the musical Casper, about the friendly ghost of cartoon fame, but the show does not continue on to Broadway.

ON THIS DAY IN:

On June 5, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded just after claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. He died the following day. Gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was immediately arrested.

1972 - Maureen McGovern quit her job as a full-time legal secretary for a new career as a full-time singer. Maureen was part of a trio before recording as a solo artist in July, 1973. Her first song, The Morning After, from the movie, The Poseidon Adventure, was a million-seller. She also sang the theme, Different Worlds, from ABC-TV’s Angie, and Can You Read My Mind from the movie, Superman. Ms. McGovern starred in Pirates of Penzance for 14 months on Broadway.

1981 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five homosexuals in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they were the first recognized cases of what became known as AIDS.

1991 Actor Larry Kert dies of AIDS-related complications in New York. Kert is best remembered for originating the role of Tony in the initial Broadway production of the Bernstein-Sondheim-Laurents musical West Side Story.

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

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