Today's Birthdays 9/14
Today's Birthdays 9/14
Today's Birthdays 9/14#0
Posted: 9/14/06 at 12:09am
Luigi Cherubini 9/14/1760 - 3/15/1842 Italian-born French composer of opera and sacred music; wrote opera called Medea, most notably sung by Maria Callas
Margaret Sanger 9/14/1879 - 9/6/1966 outspoken early twentieth-century advocate of birth control, source mat'l
Lehman Engel 09/14/1910 - Aug 29, 1982 Composer, Arranger, Musical Director, Orchestrator, Musical Staff, Musical Supervisor; Won the Tony in 1953 as outstanding musical director, an award that was later discontinued. - Johnny Johnson [WHAT A PRODUCTION!] [staged by Lee Strassberg](Luther Adler, Morris Carnovsky, Lee J. Cobb, Russell Collins, Jules [John] Garfield, Elia Kazan, Bob [Robert] Lewis, Sanford Meisner, Albert Van Dekker); Western Waters (Van Heflin); 1938 The Shoemakers' Holiday (Joseph Cotton, George Coulouris); 1938 Hamlet (Maurice Evans); Everywhere I Roam (Dean Jagger); Family Portrait (Judith Anderson); Heavenly Express [staged by Robert Lewis]( Russell Collins, John Garfield, Burl Ives); The Trojan Women (Dame May Whitty, Walter Slezak, Cameron Mitchell, Margaret Webster); 1941 Macbeth [staged by Margaret Webster](Judith Anderson, Maurice Evans); Call Me Mister [mus Harold Rome, prod Melvyn Douglas](Betty Garrett, Jules Munshin, Maria Karnilova); 1946 King Henry VIII [staged by Margaret Webster](Victor Jorey, Eva LeGallienne, Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.); orig A Streetcar Named Desire; 1948 Macbeth (Russell Collins, Julie Harris, Martin Balsam, Michael Redgrave); Anne of the Thousand Days (Rex Harrison, Joyce Redman); Alive and Kicking (Jack Cole, Jack Cassidy, Mickey Deems, Bobby Van, Gwen Verdon); The Consul (Patricia Neway, Marie Powers); The Wisteria Trees (Helen Hayes, Reri Grist); The Liar [dir by & book by Alfred Drake, music by John Mundy](Walter Matthau, Robert Penn); Bless You All (Pearl Bailey, Gene Barry, Donald Saddler, Swen Swenson); 1951 Saint Joan (Uta Hagen); Wonderful Town (Roz Russell, Edith Adams, Dody Goodman); The Strong Are Lonely (Robert Ludlum); Fanny (Ezio Pinza, Walter Slezak, Florence Henderson, William Tabbert); Middle of the Night [dir Josh Logan](Edward G. Robinson, Gena Rowlands); The Ponder Heart (David Wayne, Will Geer, Juanita Hall, Una Merkel); Shangri-La (Alice Ghostley, Jack Cassidy); Li'l Abner (Edith Adams, Stubby Kaye, Julie Newmar, Peter Palmer, Tina Louise, Anthony Mordente); Jamaica (Lena Horne, Ricardo Montalban, Adelaide Hall, Ossie Davis, Erik Rhodes); Goldy Locks (Don Ameche, Elaine Stritch, Russell Nype, Margaret Hamilton); Destry Rides Again (Dolores Gray, Andy Griffith); Take Me Along (Jackie Gleason, Walter Pidgeon, Una Merkel, Robert Morse); There Was a Little Girl (Jane Fonda, Dean Jones, Gary Lockwood); Do Re Mi (Nancy Dussault, Phil Silvers); I Can Get It for You Wholesale (Lillian Roth, Barbra Streisand, Marilyn Cooper, Elliot Gould, Jack Kruschen, Harold Lang, Sheree North); The Beast in Me (Kaye Ballard, Bert Convy); What Makes Sammy Run? (Robert Alda, Graciela Daniele, Sally Ann Howes, Steve Lawrence); Bajour (Chita Rivera, Herschel Bernardi, Nancy Dussault, Mae Questel, Michael Bennett); A Musical Jubilee (Lillian Gish, Tammy Grimes, Larry Kert, Patrice Munsel, John Raitt, Cyril Ritchard, Dick Shawn, Jeanne Lehman)
Jack Hawkins 09/14/1910 - Jul 18, 1973 performer; husband of Jessica Tandy (1932 - 1942) divorced - Journey's End; Dear Octopus (Lillian Gish, Lucile Watson); Romeo and Juliet (Olivia de Havilland, Fred Vogel, Douglas Watson)
Tom Pedi 09/14/1913 - Dec 29, 1996 performer - Origs: Brooklyn, U.S.A. (Roger De Koven, Sidney Lumet); The Iceman Cometh; Death of a Salesman (Lee J. Cobb, Mildred Dunnock, Arthur Kennedy, Cameron Mitchell); Guys and Dolls; A View From the Bridge; A Hole in the Head (Paul Douglas, Lee Grant, Kay Medford ); Arturo Ui; 1965 Guys & Dolls (Anita Gillette, Alan King); Sheila MacRae, Jerry Orbach, Frank Campanella, Jake LaMotta
Kay Medford 09/14/1920 - Apr 10, 1980 writer, performer - Origs: Paint Your Wagon (James Mitchell, Olga San Juan, James Barton, John Randolph, Charlotte Ray); John Murray Anderson's Almanac (Monique Van Vooren, Harry Belafonte, Polly Bergen, Billy DeWolfe, Hermione Gingold, Orson Bean); Black-Eyed Susan (Vincent Price, Everett Sloan); Mr. Wonderful (Chita Rivera, Sammy Davis Jr, Sammy Davis Sr); Bye Bye Birdie (Dick Van Dyke, Chita Rivera, Susan Watson, Paul Lynde, Charles Nelson Reilly); The Heroine; Funny Girl; Don't Drink the Water (Lou Jacobi, Anita Gillette, Tony Roberts); 1963 Pal Joey; 1957 Carousel (Barbara Cook, Howard Keel)
Zoe Caldwell 09/14/1933 performer, dir.; mother of William "Sam" Whitehead, Charles Whitehead, wife of Robert Whitehead (1968 - June 15, 2002) his death - Coming soon to CSC's prod'n of The Spanis Play; Slapstick Tragedy (Margaret Leighton); The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Dance of Death (Hector Elizondo, Robert Shaw); An Almost Perfect Person (Colleen Dewhurst, George Hearn); Medea; 1988 Macbeth (Christopher Plummer, Glenda Jackson); Master Class (Audra Ann McDonald)
Harve Presnell 9/14/1933 (ibdb says 10/14/1933, but NYT & imdb says 9/14/1933) performer; Presnell was once a soloist with the Roger Wagner Chorale. He soloed on the Christmas classic "O Holy Night" in their 1956 "Joy To The World" LP. This was one of Capitol Records earliest stereo efforts. In addition, he sang with Marilyn Horne in "He's Gone Away" and also soloed on "O, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie," both of which can be found on the RWC album "Folk Songs Of The New World." - The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Tammy Grimes, Ken Richards [replacement]); Annie [replacement]; tv's & film's The Unsinkable Molly Brown; Paint Your Wagon; Ryan's Hope; Patch Adams; Saving Private Ryan; Legally Blonde; Monk; ER; The Lyon's Den
Nicol Williamson 09/14/1938 dir, performer; Around 1971, Williamson's reputation was tarred by his erratic behavior during the North American tour of "Hamlet". In Boston he stopped during a performance and berated the audience, which led one cast member to publicly apologize to the Boston audience. Williamson would be involved in an even more famous incident on Broadway a generation later. Williamson's eccentricities showed themselves again in the early 1990s. When appearing as the ghost of John Barrymore in the 1991 Broadway production of Paul Rudnick's "I Hate Hamlet" on Broadway in 1991, Williamson shocked audiences when he periodically broke character and derided his co-star and the play in well-publicized tantrums. His co-star told the press that he was afraid Williamson might actually try to injure him during their swordfight in the play, so vehement was his antagonism, Despite good reviews, the play lasted only 100 performances. - 1969 Hamlet (Francesca Annis, Anjelica Huston); 1973 Uncle Vanya (Julie Christie, Lillian Gish, Conrad Bain, Barnard Hughes, Geo C. Scott; s/b Taina Elg); Rex (Glenn Close, Melanie Vaughan); 1982 Macbeth (Christian Slater, Andrea Weber); I Hate Hamlet (Celeste Holm, Jane Adams, Adam Arkin); Jack: A Night on the Town with John Barrymore ; tv's & film's Hamlet; Of Mice and Men; Arturo Ui; Robin and Marian; The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; Excalibur; The Exorcist III; The Wind in the Willows; Spawn
Joey Heatherton (Davenie Johanna Heatherton) 09/14/1944 performer, daughter of Ray Heatherton - orig Sound of Music; There Was a Little Girl (Whitfield Connor, Jane Fonda); tv's & film's Perry Como Show; Twilight of Honor (Nick Adams); Where Love Has Gone (Bette Davis and Susan Hayward); My Blood Runs Cold (Troy Donahue)
Dan Cortese 9/14/1967 performer - tv's & film's Veronica's Closet; The Lottery (Veronica Cartwright, Salome Jens); The Triangle (Luke Perry, Olivia d'Abo); What I Like About You
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DAY:
1916 The Longacre Theatre is the host tonight for the opening of a new comedy by James Montgomery, Nothing But The Truth. William Collier stars in this play that follows a stock broker trying not to tell a lie for 24 hours in order to win a $10,000 bet.
1921 The Blue Lagoon
1925 The Jazz Singer by Samson Raphaelson opens tonight at the Fulton. George Jessel stars as the cantor's son, Jackie Rabinowitz, who is tempted away from religious music by jazz. The melodrama runs 303 performance, and will make history in 1927 as the first commercially-released sound film.
1936 The Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 opens today, featuring songs by Vernon Duke and Ira Gershwin, and performances by Fanny Brice, Gypsy Rose Lee and Bobby Clark.
1942 The Morning Star with Gregory Peck, Brenda Forbes, Jill Esmond, Cecil Humphreys, Rhys Williams
1949 Treasure Hunt, a comedy by M. J. Farrell and John Perry, opens at the Apollo Theater in London and tells of an aristocratic pair who decide to take in paying guests to maintain their almost bankrupt estate. The play was directed by John Gielgud and starred Sybil Thorndike, Alan Webb, and Marie Lohr. The play would run 11 months.
1951 Revival of Diamond Lil written by & starring Mae West
1960 Bette Davis, Clark Allen and Leif Erickson take part in staged readings of The World of Carl Sandburg. The poetry-based piece runs at Henry Miller's Theatre until October 8.
1970 Othello with Moses Gunn, Roberta Maxwell, Jan Miner, Lee Richardson
1972 Opening night of Jason Miller's drama, That Championship Season, about the reunion of a high school basketball team at which a lot of long-buried truths are revealed. The cast features Charles Durning, Paul Sorvino, Richard Dysart and Walter McGinn. It runs 700 performances and wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
1980 Charles Strouse provides music for the musical Charlie and Algernon with P. J. Benjamin which opens tonight at the Helen Hayes Theatre. The show is based on the same source material as the 1968 film "Charly," about a mentally retarded man who is temporarily transformed into a genius. The tuner lasts only 17 performances before closing Sept. 28. The composer will suffer another blow to his ego later in the season when his Bring Back Birdie — a sequel to his successful Bye Bye Birdie — will fall after only 4 performances.
1984 Death of a Salesman with Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Kate Reid, Louis Zorich
1989 Sweeney Todd with Beth Fowler, Bob Gunton
2000 Writer-performer Pamela Gien takes on 28 roles spanning four generations of South Africans, from apartheid to freedom in The Syringa Tree. The one-woman show opens tonight at Off-Broadway's Playhouse 91. The play will win the 2001 Obie Award for Best Play and garner Gien a 2001 Drama Desk Award in the category of Solo Performance. Gien is replaced by Kate Blumberg on Aug. 1, 2001 as she exits to work on a film adaptation of the play.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1814 Francis Scott Key wrote 'The Star-Spangled Banner' after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812.
1901 President William B. McKinley died in Buffalo, N.Y., of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him.
1927 Modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan died in Nice, France, when her scarf became entangled in a wheel of her sports car.
1972 The family drama series "The Waltons" premiered on CBS.
1982 Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries from a car crash the day before.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com, MSN Entertainment)
Milla
re: Today's Birthdays 9/14#3
Posted: 9/14/06 at 10:48pm
my birthday! whoo.
But I'm not on Broadway so I guess it doesn't count.
re: Today's Birthdays 9/14#4
Posted: 9/14/06 at 11:24pm
Happy Birthday! I hope it was magical!
Milla
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