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Posted: 9/20/05 at 3:58pm
Upton Sinclair 09/20/1878 - Nov 25, 1968 writer - SINGING JAILBIRDS; novel - THE JUNGLE
John Murray Anderson 09/20/1886 - Jan 30, 1954 Producer, Writer, Lyricist, Director, Designer, Production Crew - DEAREST ENEMY; JUMBO (Jimmy Durante); THE FIREBRAND OF FLORENCE (Lotte Lenya); LEONARD SILLIMAN'S NEW FACES OF 1952 (Eartha Kitt, Carol Lawrence, Alice Ghostley)
Patricia Collinge 09/20/1892 - Apr 10, 1974 performer - POLLYANA; 1926 HEDDA GABLER (Louis Calhern); 1926 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Haroldine Humphreys, Reginald Owen, Lucille Watson); orig THE LITTLE FOXES (Tallulah Bankhead, Dan Duryea); orig THE HEIRESS (Basile Rathbone, Wendy Hiller)
Robin Craven 09/20/1910 - May 15, 1978 performer - origs PRESENT LAUGHTER (Clifton Webb); THE KING & I; WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION; A PASSAGE TO INDIA (Gladys Cooper, James Coco, Donal Moffat)
Rachel Roberts 09/20/1927 - Nov 26, 1980 performer, Wife of Rex Harrison (1962 - 1971) divorced - THE VISIT (John McMartin, John Glover); film's MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Anne Meara 09/20/1929 Mother of Ben Stiller, Wife of Jerry Stiller (1954 - present) - MISS LONELYHEARTS; 1993 ANNA CHRISTIE (Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, Rip Torn); tv's All in the Family, Rhoda, The Paul Lynde Show
Peter Palmer 09/20/1931 performer - LI'L ABNER (Edith Adams, Stubby Kaye, Julie Newmar, Charlotte Rae, Tina Louise); LORELEI (Carol Channing, Lee Roy Reams, Dody Goodman)
W. B. Brydon 09/20/1933 THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER & HIS WIFE (Chris Walken, Brian Bedford); THE LINCOLN MASK (Eva Marie Saint, Fred Gwynne)
Ted Neeley 09/20/1943 performer - orig JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (Anita Morris, Ben Vereen, Jeff Fenholt)
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1919 The Hudson Theatre plays host tonight to the opening of Clarence, a new comedy by Booth Tarkington. This play, about a diffident entomologist who teaches a family persistence and values, stars Alfred Lunt and a young Helen Hayes. Variety reports that the young actress is "delicious all the way" and proclaims that she is a "child prodigy."
1924 Today is the Walter Winchell's first daily article in the New York Evening Graphic. Titled "Your Broadway and Mine," this was Winchell's first Broadway column and, accordingly, he was the first Broadway columnist. The news of the day is that Sophie Tucker has left the play Vanities by Earl Carroll in a dispute over stage time.
1978 The musical revue, Eubie!, about the music of Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle, opens at Broadway's Ambassador Theatre. The production features Gregory Hines and brother Maurice Hines in the cast. At the curtain of tonight's premiere, 95 year-old musician Blake takes a bow. The show will last 439 performances and close Oct. 7, 1979.
2001 Urinetown opens on Broadway, having worked its way up from Fringe Festival to Off-Broadway to Broadway, and having postponed its planned Sept. 13 opening in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The oddly titled and themed musical would go on to win 2002 Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Book of a Musical.
ON THIS DATE ON:
1986 - NBC’s The Golden Girls won best comedy honors and CBS’s Cagney & Lacey won for top drama at the 38th Emmy Awards held in Pasadena, CA.
2000 Ally Sheedy makes her debut as the obscure and tortured transsexual rock singer in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. The actress, known for her work in films such as "The Breakfast Club," "St. Elmo's Fire" and "High Art," is the first female to play the part of the German transsexual Hedwig. To date, only male actors have filled the role: the show's creator John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Cerveris and Kevin Cahoon. The musical opened at the Jane Street Theatre in Feb. 14 of 1998 and will close April 9, after 12 previews and 857 performances.
2004 Actor Iggie Wolfington, the portly character actor who snagged a 1958 Tony Award nomination for playing Prof. Harold Hill's pal, Marcellus Washburn, dies of natural causes in Southern California at age 84.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
John Murray Anderson 09/20/1886 - Jan 30, 1954 Producer, Writer, Lyricist, Director, Designer, Production Crew - DEAREST ENEMY; JUMBO (Jimmy Durante); THE FIREBRAND OF FLORENCE (Lotte Lenya); LEONARD SILLIMAN'S NEW FACES OF 1952 (Eartha Kitt, Carol Lawrence, Alice Ghostley)
Patricia Collinge 09/20/1892 - Apr 10, 1974 performer - POLLYANA; 1926 HEDDA GABLER (Louis Calhern); 1926 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Haroldine Humphreys, Reginald Owen, Lucille Watson); orig THE LITTLE FOXES (Tallulah Bankhead, Dan Duryea); orig THE HEIRESS (Basile Rathbone, Wendy Hiller)
Robin Craven 09/20/1910 - May 15, 1978 performer - origs PRESENT LAUGHTER (Clifton Webb); THE KING & I; WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION; A PASSAGE TO INDIA (Gladys Cooper, James Coco, Donal Moffat)
Rachel Roberts 09/20/1927 - Nov 26, 1980 performer, Wife of Rex Harrison (1962 - 1971) divorced - THE VISIT (John McMartin, John Glover); film's MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Anne Meara 09/20/1929 Mother of Ben Stiller, Wife of Jerry Stiller (1954 - present) - MISS LONELYHEARTS; 1993 ANNA CHRISTIE (Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, Rip Torn); tv's All in the Family, Rhoda, The Paul Lynde Show
Peter Palmer 09/20/1931 performer - LI'L ABNER (Edith Adams, Stubby Kaye, Julie Newmar, Charlotte Rae, Tina Louise); LORELEI (Carol Channing, Lee Roy Reams, Dody Goodman)
W. B. Brydon 09/20/1933 THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER & HIS WIFE (Chris Walken, Brian Bedford); THE LINCOLN MASK (Eva Marie Saint, Fred Gwynne)
Ted Neeley 09/20/1943 performer - orig JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (Anita Morris, Ben Vereen, Jeff Fenholt)
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1919 The Hudson Theatre plays host tonight to the opening of Clarence, a new comedy by Booth Tarkington. This play, about a diffident entomologist who teaches a family persistence and values, stars Alfred Lunt and a young Helen Hayes. Variety reports that the young actress is "delicious all the way" and proclaims that she is a "child prodigy."
1924 Today is the Walter Winchell's first daily article in the New York Evening Graphic. Titled "Your Broadway and Mine," this was Winchell's first Broadway column and, accordingly, he was the first Broadway columnist. The news of the day is that Sophie Tucker has left the play Vanities by Earl Carroll in a dispute over stage time.
1978 The musical revue, Eubie!, about the music of Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle, opens at Broadway's Ambassador Theatre. The production features Gregory Hines and brother Maurice Hines in the cast. At the curtain of tonight's premiere, 95 year-old musician Blake takes a bow. The show will last 439 performances and close Oct. 7, 1979.
2001 Urinetown opens on Broadway, having worked its way up from Fringe Festival to Off-Broadway to Broadway, and having postponed its planned Sept. 13 opening in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The oddly titled and themed musical would go on to win 2002 Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Book of a Musical.
ON THIS DATE ON:
1986 - NBC’s The Golden Girls won best comedy honors and CBS’s Cagney & Lacey won for top drama at the 38th Emmy Awards held in Pasadena, CA.
2000 Ally Sheedy makes her debut as the obscure and tortured transsexual rock singer in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. The actress, known for her work in films such as "The Breakfast Club," "St. Elmo's Fire" and "High Art," is the first female to play the part of the German transsexual Hedwig. To date, only male actors have filled the role: the show's creator John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Cerveris and Kevin Cahoon. The musical opened at the Jane Street Theatre in Feb. 14 of 1998 and will close April 9, after 12 previews and 857 performances.
2004 Actor Iggie Wolfington, the portly character actor who snagged a 1958 Tony Award nomination for playing Prof. Harold Hill's pal, Marcellus Washburn, dies of natural causes in Southern California at age 84.
(sources: IBDB, IMDB NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
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