Today's Birthdays 8/21 - Carolyn Leigh, Loretta Devine, Kim Cattrell

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Posted: 8/21/03 at 8:08pm

Leonid Andreyev 08/21/1871 - Sep 12, 1919 Source Material, Writer - HE WHO GETS SLAPPED; POOR MURDERER (Laurence Luckinbill, Kevin McCarthy, Maria Schell, Julie Garfield [John Garfield's daughter])

Count Basie 08/21/1904 - Apr 26, 1984 Composer, Performer aka William Allen Basie [Birthname] - FRANK SINATRA, ELLA FITZGERALD & COUNT BASIE; UPTOWN IT'S HOT (Maurice Hines, Michael Franks, Yolanda Graves)

Tom Tully 08/21/1908 - Apr 27, 1982 performer - JASON (Nicholas Conte, E.G. Marshall); THE STRINGS, MY LORD ARE FALSE (Ruth Gordon, Hurd Hatfield, Constance Dowling)

Karl Lukas 08/21/1919 - Jan 16, 1995 performer - origs MR. ROBERTS; REMAINS TO BE SEEN (Jackie Cooper, Janis Page, Ossie Davis, Howard Lindsay)

Jack Weston 08/21/1924 - May 3, 1996 Performer, Stage Manager - orig. SOUTH PACIFIC [replacement]; SEASON IN THE SUN (Joan Diener, Nancy Kelly, King Calder); BELLS ARE RINGING; THE OFFICE (Bill Daniels, Tony Lo Bianco, Elaine May); THE RITZ (Jerry Stiller, Rita Moreno, Geo. Dzundza, F. Murray Abraham); CALIFORNIA SUITE; CHEATERS (Doris Roberts); BREAK A LEG (Julie Harris); 1 NIGHT STAND (Charles Kimbrough, Kate Mostel; THE FLOATING LIGHTBULB (Bea Arthur, Danny Aiello); THE 10TH MAN (Phoebe Cates, Ron Rifkin)

Carolyn Leigh 08/21/1926 - Nov 19, 1981 Lyricist, Composer - PETER PAN; ZIEGFIELD OF 1957 (Beatrice Lillie, Billy DeWolfe, Frances Koll, Carol Lawrence); WILDCAT; LITTLE ME; HOW NOW DOW JONES

Barry Foster 08/21/1931 performer - THE PRIVATE EYE and THE PUBLIC EAR (Briad Bedford, the recently late Michael Sinclair [understudy])

Melvin Van Peebles 08/21/1932 Writer, Lyricist, Composer, Performer, Producer, Director, Screenwriter, father of Mario & Megan - DON'T PLAY US CHEAP; WALTZ OF THE STORK (Andy Torres, Mario Van Peebles); film's Terminal Velocity, Boomerang; actor, screen writer: Sophisticated Gents, Sweet Sweetback’s Badassssss Song; screenwriter: Panther, Greased Lightning, The Story of a Three Day Pass

Clarence Williams III 08/21/1939 performer - THE LONG ROOM (Peggy Pope, Gertrude Jeannette, Al Freeman); SLOW DANCE ON THE KILLING GROUND (Geo. Rose, Carolan Daniels); NIGHT & DAY (Maggie Smith); tv's MOD SQUAD; film's PURPLE RAIN

Josephine Abady 08/21/1949 Producer, Director, Theatre Owner/Operator - 1996 BUS STOP (Billy Crudup, Mary-Louise Parker, Ron Perlman, Kelly Bishop)

Loretta Devine 08/21/1949 performer - DREAMGIRLS; BIG DEAL (Wayne Cilento, Cady Huffman, Larry Marshall, Stephanie Pope)

Kim Cattrall 08/21/1956 performer - WILD HONEY (Ian McKellen, Kate Burton, J. Smith-Cameron); tv's SEX IN THE CITY

Jerry Mettner 08/21/1958 performer - PRESENT LAUGHTER (Geo. C. Scott, Kate Burton, Dana Ivey, Christine Lahti, Nathan Lane)

Patrick Loy 08/21/1961 performer - BEAUTY & THE BEAST

Shows which opened on August 21:
Song of Norway 08/21/1944 - Ira Petina, Lawrence Brooks

Borned in Texas 08/21/1950 Marsha Hunt, Anthony Quinn

La Cage aux Folles 08/21/1983 Gene Barry, Geo. Hearn, Elizabeth Paris (wonderful acress, cabaret performer, teacher [at Stella Adler], friend), Marie Santell, Mark Waldrop)

Rags 08/21/1986 TERESA STRATAS

1990 A revival of Moss Hart's Light Up the Sky opens Off-Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre Company. Elaine Bromka, Charles Keating, and Betsy Joslyn are featured in the cast under the direction of Larry Carpenter. The original production of the show was produced on Broadway in 1948 for 216 performances. A week following the opening, Jason Alexander replaces cast member Bruce Weitz.

1999 Off-Off-Broadway's Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre begins its 2000 season with On the Razzle, Tom Stoppard's take on Viennese playwright Johann Nestroy's Einen Jux will er sich machen. The play is the same source that inspired Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, which in turn inspired Jerry Herman's Hello, Dolly!. Cocteau Rep is no stranger to Stoppard works, as they have previously produced Travesties, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Rough Crossing.

ON THIS DAY IN:

1980 - Linda Ronstadt debuted on Broadway in the production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s, The Pirates of Penzance.

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

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