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Posted: 9/22/05 at 10:31am
Erich von Stroheim (Erich Oswald Stroheim) 9/22/1885 - 5/12/1957 Austrian film director, writer and actor, The Man You Love to Hate; He fabricated an elaborate back-story for himself as a German aristocrat and decorated military officer, while in fact he was the son of a lower-middle-class Jewish hatmaker and never served in any military. - film's Sunset Blvd; Five Graves to Cairo; Greed; Queen Kelly
Paul Muni (Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund) 09/22/1895 - Aug 25, 1967 performer - orig Counsellor-at-Law; Key Largo; Yesterday's Magic (Jessica Tandy, Alfred Drake); A Flag Is Born (Marlon Brando, Steven Hill [bway debut]); orig Inherit the Wind [Muni had to leave the play when he developed a cataract](Ed Begley, Tony Randall, Michael Constantine
John Houseman 09/22/1902 - 10/31/1988 Producer, Writer, Director, Theatre Owner/Operator - Three and One (Brian Donlevy); Four Saints in Three Acts; 1936 Hamlet (Leslie Howard); 1937 Julius Caesar (George Coulouris, Joseph Holland, Orson Welles); 1938 The Shoemakers' Holiday (Joseph Cotton, Vincent Price); 1938 Heartbreak House (Geraldine Fitzgerald, Orson Welles); 19385 anton's Death (Mary Wicks); orig Devil and Daniel Webster; Liberty Jones (Tom Ewell); Lute Song (Mary Martin, Yul Brynner, Clarence Derwent); Joy To The World (Alfred Drake, Marsha Hunt, Morris Carnovsky); 1950 King Lear (Nina Foch, Louis Calhern); Pantagleize (Richard Easton); 1971 The School for Wives (Brian Bedford, Joan van Ark, Peggy Pope); 1972 The Country Girl (Geo. Grizzard, Jason Robards, Maureen Stapleton); Don Juan in Hell (Paul Henreid, Ricardo Montalbon, Agnes Moorehead, Edward Mulhare); 3 Sisters [what I wouldn't give to see this](Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, David Ogden Stiers); 1973 The Beggar's Opera (LuPone, Kline); Measure for Measure(LuPone, Kline, David Ogden Stiers); 1973 Scapin {you guessed, LuPone, Kline, Stiers); Next Time I'll Sing to You [dir's by Seldes](LuPone); Clarence Darrow (Henry Fonda); The Robber Bridegroom (again LuPone & Kline, this time w/Nicolas Surovy (Rise Stevens' baby boy)); Edward II (LuPone, Kline); The Time of Your Life (Kline, LuPone); 1976 The Robber Bridegroom (Barry Bostwisk, Ernie Sabella); The Curse of an Aching Heart (Faye Dunaway)
Martha Scott 09/22/1912 - May 28, 2003 performer - orig Our Town; It Takes 2 (Vivian Vance); Design for a Stained Glass Window (Charlton Heston); 1952 The Male Animal (Robert Preston); The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (Burgess Meredith, Una Merkel); The Tumbler (Charlton Heston, Rosemary Harris, William Mervyn, Donalt Moffat); 1975 The Skin of Our Teeth (Elizabeth Ashley, Alfred Drake); First Monday in October (Jane Alexander, Henry Fonda); The Crucible (ok, I was brain dead to miss this 1] (Martin Sheen, Fritz Weaver, Michael York, Carol Woods)
Debby Boone 09/22/1956 Pat's baby girl - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; Grease [replacement]
Joan Jett (Joan Marie Larkin) 09/22/1958 performer Joan Jett and the Black Hearts on Broadway; 2000 The Rocky Horror Show
Brad Oscar 09/22/1964 performer; I 1st heard him at Mrs. J's Sacred Cow! - Aspects of Love; Jekyll & Hyde; The Producers
Marc Kudisch 09/22/1966 performer - 1993 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; High Society; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Assassins; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; The Wild Party; 2001 Bells Are Ringing; replacements Beauty and the Beast; The Scarlet Pimpernel
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1921 The Music Box Revue of 1921 is the premiere performance at the new Music Box Theatre, which opened on 45th Street today. This is the first edition of the Revue, itself the first to exhibit the work of one composer. Included in this production's numbers are Irving Berlin's "Say It With Music" -- and Berlin himself is one of the performers. Miriam Hopkins also stars as one of the "Eight Little Notes." The show runs through the season and well into the next. On this date, exactly two years later in 1923, another version opens. This one has Grace Moore's rendition of "What'll I Do?" and a version of "Yes, We Have No Bananas."
1925 Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II are teamed up together for the first time for a new musical, Sunny, which opens tonight at the New Amsterdam Theatre. Marilyn Miller stars as the circus performer who stows away on an ocean liner to follow her lover back to America. The remainder of the all-star cast includes Clifton Webb, Jack Donahue, and Cliff Edwards. They all help the show run for over 507 performances. Kern and Hammerstein would follow up with the megahit Show Boat.
1947 Anna Lucasta with Isabelle Cooley and Sidney Poitier
1964 Tonight is the opening of the musical Fiddler on the Roof at the Imperial Theatre. Shalom Aleichem's milkman whose glass is half-full, Tevye, is played by Zero Mostel. Mostel would become a star after this run, even though he was not the first choice for the role. Beatrice Arthur ("Maude") co-stars in this Bock-Harnick musical with such memorable songs as "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" and "Sunrise, Sunset." Also in the cast were Burt Convy & Julia Migenes
1966 Already legends, married couple Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy arrive at the Martin Beck Theatre tonight to co-star in A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee, which also stars Marian Seldes and Rosemary Murphy. This production goes on to win the Tony Award for Best Play of 1966 along with a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It runs 132 performances.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1776 Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy by the British during the Revolutionary War.
1862 President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863.
1989 Songwriter Irving Berlin died at age 101.
1998 The most controversial and talked-about play of the season, Corpus Christi, the long-awaited new drama by Terrence McNally, start previews tonight. The play which depicts a gay Christ-like figure, was withdrawn by Manhattan Theatre Club in May 1998 after threats of violence, then reinstated after an outcry from the theatre community and a promise of special protection from the New York Police Department. There were no incidents, and the show was poorly received by most critics.
1999 Actor George C. Scott died at age 71.
2001 Violinist Isaac Stern died at age 81. Mr. Stern was "instrumental" in saving Carnegie Hall.
2002 Jan de Hartog, the Dutch playwright and novelist whose best-known stage work, The Fourposter, starred Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn on Broadway, dies in Houston. The play serves as the source material for the musical I Do! I Do!
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
Paul Muni (Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund) 09/22/1895 - Aug 25, 1967 performer - orig Counsellor-at-Law; Key Largo; Yesterday's Magic (Jessica Tandy, Alfred Drake); A Flag Is Born (Marlon Brando, Steven Hill [bway debut]); orig Inherit the Wind [Muni had to leave the play when he developed a cataract](Ed Begley, Tony Randall, Michael Constantine
John Houseman 09/22/1902 - 10/31/1988 Producer, Writer, Director, Theatre Owner/Operator - Three and One (Brian Donlevy); Four Saints in Three Acts; 1936 Hamlet (Leslie Howard); 1937 Julius Caesar (George Coulouris, Joseph Holland, Orson Welles); 1938 The Shoemakers' Holiday (Joseph Cotton, Vincent Price); 1938 Heartbreak House (Geraldine Fitzgerald, Orson Welles); 19385 anton's Death (Mary Wicks); orig Devil and Daniel Webster; Liberty Jones (Tom Ewell); Lute Song (Mary Martin, Yul Brynner, Clarence Derwent); Joy To The World (Alfred Drake, Marsha Hunt, Morris Carnovsky); 1950 King Lear (Nina Foch, Louis Calhern); Pantagleize (Richard Easton); 1971 The School for Wives (Brian Bedford, Joan van Ark, Peggy Pope); 1972 The Country Girl (Geo. Grizzard, Jason Robards, Maureen Stapleton); Don Juan in Hell (Paul Henreid, Ricardo Montalbon, Agnes Moorehead, Edward Mulhare); 3 Sisters [what I wouldn't give to see this](Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, David Ogden Stiers); 1973 The Beggar's Opera (LuPone, Kline); Measure for Measure(LuPone, Kline, David Ogden Stiers); 1973 Scapin {you guessed, LuPone, Kline, Stiers); Next Time I'll Sing to You [dir's by Seldes](LuPone); Clarence Darrow (Henry Fonda); The Robber Bridegroom (again LuPone & Kline, this time w/Nicolas Surovy (Rise Stevens' baby boy)); Edward II (LuPone, Kline); The Time of Your Life (Kline, LuPone); 1976 The Robber Bridegroom (Barry Bostwisk, Ernie Sabella); The Curse of an Aching Heart (Faye Dunaway)
Martha Scott 09/22/1912 - May 28, 2003 performer - orig Our Town; It Takes 2 (Vivian Vance); Design for a Stained Glass Window (Charlton Heston); 1952 The Male Animal (Robert Preston); The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (Burgess Meredith, Una Merkel); The Tumbler (Charlton Heston, Rosemary Harris, William Mervyn, Donalt Moffat); 1975 The Skin of Our Teeth (Elizabeth Ashley, Alfred Drake); First Monday in October (Jane Alexander, Henry Fonda); The Crucible (ok, I was brain dead to miss this 1] (Martin Sheen, Fritz Weaver, Michael York, Carol Woods)
Debby Boone 09/22/1956 Pat's baby girl - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; Grease [replacement]
Joan Jett (Joan Marie Larkin) 09/22/1958 performer Joan Jett and the Black Hearts on Broadway; 2000 The Rocky Horror Show
Brad Oscar 09/22/1964 performer; I 1st heard him at Mrs. J's Sacred Cow! - Aspects of Love; Jekyll & Hyde; The Producers
Marc Kudisch 09/22/1966 performer - 1993 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; High Society; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Assassins; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; The Wild Party; 2001 Bells Are Ringing; replacements Beauty and the Beast; The Scarlet Pimpernel
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1921 The Music Box Revue of 1921 is the premiere performance at the new Music Box Theatre, which opened on 45th Street today. This is the first edition of the Revue, itself the first to exhibit the work of one composer. Included in this production's numbers are Irving Berlin's "Say It With Music" -- and Berlin himself is one of the performers. Miriam Hopkins also stars as one of the "Eight Little Notes." The show runs through the season and well into the next. On this date, exactly two years later in 1923, another version opens. This one has Grace Moore's rendition of "What'll I Do?" and a version of "Yes, We Have No Bananas."
1925 Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II are teamed up together for the first time for a new musical, Sunny, which opens tonight at the New Amsterdam Theatre. Marilyn Miller stars as the circus performer who stows away on an ocean liner to follow her lover back to America. The remainder of the all-star cast includes Clifton Webb, Jack Donahue, and Cliff Edwards. They all help the show run for over 507 performances. Kern and Hammerstein would follow up with the megahit Show Boat.
1947 Anna Lucasta with Isabelle Cooley and Sidney Poitier
1964 Tonight is the opening of the musical Fiddler on the Roof at the Imperial Theatre. Shalom Aleichem's milkman whose glass is half-full, Tevye, is played by Zero Mostel. Mostel would become a star after this run, even though he was not the first choice for the role. Beatrice Arthur ("Maude") co-stars in this Bock-Harnick musical with such memorable songs as "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" and "Sunrise, Sunset." Also in the cast were Burt Convy & Julia Migenes
1966 Already legends, married couple Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy arrive at the Martin Beck Theatre tonight to co-star in A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee, which also stars Marian Seldes and Rosemary Murphy. This production goes on to win the Tony Award for Best Play of 1966 along with a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It runs 132 performances.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1776 Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy by the British during the Revolutionary War.
1862 President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863.
1989 Songwriter Irving Berlin died at age 101.
1998 The most controversial and talked-about play of the season, Corpus Christi, the long-awaited new drama by Terrence McNally, start previews tonight. The play which depicts a gay Christ-like figure, was withdrawn by Manhattan Theatre Club in May 1998 after threats of violence, then reinstated after an outcry from the theatre community and a promise of special protection from the New York Police Department. There were no incidents, and the show was poorly received by most critics.
1999 Actor George C. Scott died at age 71.
2001 Violinist Isaac Stern died at age 81. Mr. Stern was "instrumental" in saving Carnegie Hall.
2002 Jan de Hartog, the Dutch playwright and novelist whose best-known stage work, The Fourposter, starred Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn on Broadway, dies in Houston. The play serves as the source material for the musical I Do! I Do!
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
Updated On: 9/22/05 at 10:31 AM
