Today's Birthdays 6/8
Today's Birthdays 6/8
Today's Birthdays 6/8#0
Posted: 6/7/05 at 11:09pm
Robert Schumann 6/8/1810 - 7/29/1856 composer: Lied, Symphonic Etudes, Fantasia in C Major, Concerto in A Minor
Frank Lloyd Wright 6/8/1867 - 4/9/1959 architect: Pennsylvania’s Falling Water, NYC’s Guggenheim Museum; “No house should be on any hill or on anything, it should be of the hill, belonging to it ...”
Robert Preston (Meservey) 06/08/1918 - 3/21/1987 performer - 1952 The Male Animal; His & Hers (Celeste Holm); The Tender Trap (Kim Hunter, Julia Meade); Janus (Claude Dauphin); The Music Man; Ben Franklin in Paris; The Lion in Winter (Rosemary Harris, Chris Walken); I Do! I Do!; Mack & Mabel; film's Victor Victoria, The Music Man, How the West was Won, Mame, Semi-Tough
Alexis (Gladys) Smith 06/08/1921 - performer; wife of Craig Stevens (1944 - 1993) her death - orig Follies; Summer Brave (Peter Weller); Platinum (Lisa Mordente); film's Night & Day; Conflict; Rhapsody In Blue; San Antonio
Jerry Stiller 06/08/1929 performer - The Golden Apple; 1955 3 Penny Opera [replacement]; Hurlyburly; What's Wrong With This Picture?; 1997 3 Sisters; tv's & film's Stiller and (Anne) Meara; actor: Seinfeld, The King of Queens, Hairspray, Tattingers, The Paul Lynde Show; father of actor Ben Stiller
Joan Rivers 06/08/1933 performer; wife of Edgar Rosenberg (1965 - 1987) his death - Fun City; Sally Marr...and her escorts; tv's & film's Shrek 2; author: Bouncing Back: I’ve Survived Everything... and I Mean Everything ...and You Can Too!; TV host: The Tonight Show, The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers; “Can we talk?”
James Darren 6/8/1936 - tv's & film's The Guns of Navarone, Because They’re Young, Gidget; host: Time Tunnel
Griffin Dunne 06/08/1955 performer - Search and Destroy (Paul Guilfoyle); film's The Android Affair, Quiz Show, Love Matters, Straight Talk, Big Blue, Amazon Women on the Moon, Johnny Dangerously, An American Werewolf in London, The Other Side of the Mountain; producer: Head Over Heels, Running on Empty, White Palace, Joe’s Apartment
Adam Heller 06/08/1960 performer; husband of Kerry O'Malley (October 14, 2002 - present) - Victor / Victoria; A Class Act [saw him as Ed Kleban when he replaced Lonny Price. He was pretty darn good]; Caroline, or Change
Daniel Futterman 6/8/1967 performer - Angels in America I & II [replacement]; tv's & film's Judging Amy, The Fisher King, Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even, Another World, Shooting Fish, Urbania
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1925 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart make their lyric and songwriting debut in The Garrick Gaieties at Broadway's Garrick Theatre. In the cast are Sterling Holloway, Sanford Meisner, Philip Loeb and Romney Brent.
1934 Gordon Daviot's historical play Queen of Scots plays at London's New Theatre. Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies is Mary and Laurence Olivier is Lord Bothwell. It earns 106 performances.
1995 Buttons On Broadway - Red Buttons
ON THIS DAY IN:
1786 - Commercial ice cream was manufactured for the first time -- in New York City.
(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
re: Today's Birthdays 6/8#2
Posted: 6/8/05 at 11:56amThree of my major addictions created on the same day: Rodgers and Hart, Robert Preston and commercial ice cream.
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