Today's Birthdays 7/7
Today's Birthdays 7/7
Today's Birthdays 7/7#0
Posted: 7/7/04 at 11:41am
Gustav Mahler 07/07/1860 - 5/18/1911 composer, conductor – NUREYEV; music also used in film DEATH IN VENICE
Richard Carle 07/07/1871 - Jun 28, 1941 producer, writer, lyricist, composer, director, performer – WORDS & MUSIC; THE NEW YORKERS (Jimmy Durante)
Marc Chagall 07/07/1887 - 3/29/1985 Belorussian-born French painter, printmaker and designer – If you get to Paris, ck out the ceiling of the Paris Opera! & in NYC the 2 huge paintings at the front of the Metropolitan Opera
George Cukor 07/07/1899 - 1/24/1983 director, performer – A REGULAR FELLER; THE GREAT GATSBY; films WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD (early version of his later A STAR IS BORN); DAVID COPPERFIELD; LITTLE WOMEN; PAT & MIKE; BORN YESTERDAY; IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU; My Fair Lady, A Star is Born, Born Yesterday, Love Among the Ruins, The Philadelphia Story
Vittorio De Sica 07/07/1901 - 11/13/1974 film director – GARDEN OF FINZI-CONTINIS; 2 WOMEN; BICYCLE THIEF; IT STARTED IN NAPLES; The Shoes of the Fisherman
Gian-Carlo Menotti 07/07/1911 writer, lyricist, composer, director Pulitzer Prize winner – [I love this man! Chose me to sing for him at Spoletto Festival.] TELEPHONE/MEDIUM; CONSUL; ST. OF BLEEKER ST.; AMAHL & THE NIGHT VISITORS
Ruth Ford 07/07/1915 performer – origs NO EXIT; HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA; GRASS HARP; HAROLD & MAUDE
Bill Oddie 07/07/1941 composer, writer, performer – CAMBRIDGE CIRCUS (Oddie & John Cleese)
Joel Siegel 07/07/1943 writer – book for THE FIRST (David Alan Grier, Lonette McKee) & GMA’S movie reviewer
Shelley Duvall 07/07/1949 performer – tv's & film’s Cheers; Popeye, Nashville, Roxanne, Brewster McCloud, Annie Hall, McCabe and Mrs. Miller; THE SHINING (Will never forget the summer previews w/blood rushing out of elevator doors. Because of this, I still can’t watch this movie all the way thru)
David Elder 07/07/1966 performer – wonderful Billy Lawlor in revival of 42ND STREET; ONCE UPON A MATTERESS; TITANIC
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1976 After two years of playing downtown at the Village Gate Theatre, Earl Wilson, Jr.'s play Let My People Come makes the move uptown to Broadway's Morosco Theatre. The show, which has been abandoned by its author because he doesn't agree with the way it is being staged, never has an official opening, essentially playing preview performances for its entire 128-performance Broadway run.
1988 Nathan Lane and Laila Robins star in The Film Society at Second Stage Theatre in New York City. The Jon Robin Baitz play about a South African teacher in a struggle with apartheid will play 31 performances under the direction of John Tillinger.
1999 Pan Asian Repertory's New York premiere of the stage adaptation of The Joy Luck Club, played earlier this year at the Theatre at St. Clement's but now reopens at Theatre Four. The production, based on Amy Tan's novel, had strong reviews but was forced to move when the theatre became a pure rental house. Adapted for the stage by Susan Kim, the play about Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters runs 80 performances.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1754 - Kings College opened in New York City. The institution of higher learning admitted eight students and one faculty member, Dr. Samuel Johnson, who also served as school president. Eventually became Columbia University. Many prestigious awards come from this university, including the Columbia Award for Journalism and the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism (named after Joseph Pulitzer, a former Columbia professor). Alumni include Rogers, Hart & Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, Sheldon Leonard, Jack Benny, Melvin Douglas, Charles Coburn, Art Garfunkel, & I remember Jamie Hammerstein telling me he taught Joel Bishoff there & thru JB, that’s how Jamie came to produce I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE
1999 In the first class-action lawsuit by smokers to go to trial, a jury in Miami held cigarette makers liable for making a defective product that causes emphysema, lung cancer and other illnesses.
(sources: IBDB, NYT On This Day, playbill.com & 440.com’s Those Were The Days)
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