Today's Birthdays 7/2

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 7/2/03 at 12:24pm

Hermann Hesse 7/2/1877 German novelist and poet; awarded Nobel Prize for Literature (1946) for me it all started w/STEPPENWOLF

Tyrone Guthrie 07/02/1900 producer, writer, director - TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT (Anthony Quayle, Coleen Dewhurst, William Shatner)

Alan Webb 07/02/1906 performer - UTBU (It's "Unhealthy To Be Unpleasant") (1 of my favorite premises for a play, won't someone please musicalize this?) [w/Margaret Hamilton, Tony Randal, Doris Rich & Thelma Ritter]

Danny Scholl 07/02/1921 performer - CALL ME MISTER

Medgar Evers 7/2/1925 American civil-rights activist; assassinated in 1963, source material

Joseph Harris 07/02/1927 producer, gen. mgr – DANCING AT LUGHNASA

Brock Peters 07/02/1927 performer – in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Brock Peters’ character Tom Robinson is defended by Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) when he is falsely accused of raping a white woman.

Peter Conlow 07/02/1929 performer, choreographer - NEW FACES OF 1956 (w/Inga Swensen, Jane Connell, John Reardon)

Kenneth McMillan 07/02/1932 performer – AMERICAN BUFFALO

Ron Silver 07/02/1946 performer - HURLYBURLY

Kathryn Erbe 07/02/1966 performer - THE GRAPES OF WRATH

Jarrod Emick 07/02/1969 performer - DAMN YANKEES; BOY FROM OZ


SHOWS THAT OPENED ON JULY 02:

Show Girl 7/02/1929 - Ruby Keeler starred in Flo Ziegfeld’s production of Show Girl which opened in New York City. Critics liked the show.

Tartuffe 07/02/1968 at the Vivian Beaumont (anyone see this?)

Singin' in the Rain 07/02/1985


ON THIS DAY:

1881 President James A. Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Washington railroad station; Garfield died that September.

1947 An object crashed near Roswell, N.M. The Army Air Force later said it was a weather balloon, but eyewitness accounts gave rise to speculation it might have been an alien spacecraft.

1961 Author Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho

1963 - The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Mia Farrow, opened. Farrow got good reviews from the critics and a new show biz career was underway.

1987 Michael Bennett performer, director, choreographer, dies, at 45, from complications caused by AIDS. Bennett made his Broadway debut as a dancer at 18 in Subways are for Sleeping, also worked on Follies (choreographed and co-directed with Harold Prince), A Chorus Line, and Dreamgirls.

1997 Actor James Stewart died at age 89 (MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, HARVEY)


(sources, IBDB, NYT On This Day, playbill.com & 440.com’s Those Were The Days)

Milla Updated On: 7/2/03 at 12:24 PM