Today's Birthdays 9/30

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 9/30/04 at 12:25pm

Patricia Neway 09/30/1919 performer - origs THE CONSUL (Cornell MacNeil [wonderful Scarpia]); THE SOUND OF MUSIC

Deborah Kerr 09/30/1921 Wife of Peter Viertel (1962 - present), performer - TEA & SYMPATHY (Leif Erickson, Dick York); SEASCAPE (Frank Langella [debut], Barry Nelson); film's AN AFFAIRE TO REMEMBER; KING & I; FROM HERE TO ETERNITY; THE LIFE & DEATH OF COL. BLIMP; THE INNOCENTS

Lamont Johnson 09/30/1922 director, performer - 1948 MACBETH (Martin Balsam, Julie Harris, Michael Redgrave, Flora Robson)

Donald Swann 09/30/1923 - Mar 23, 1994 FLANDERS & SWANN, Writer, Composer, Director, Performer - AT THE DROP OF A HAT; AT THE DROP OF ANOTHER HAT

Truman Capote 09/30/1924 - Aug 25, 1984 Partner of Jack Dunphy, Producer, Writer, Lyricist, Source Material- THE GRASS HARP (Sterling Holloway); HOUSE OF FLOWERS; BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S; TRU

Elie Wiesel 09/30/1928 writer - ZALMAN OR THE MADNESS OF GOD

Angie Dickinson 09/30/1931 Wife of Burt Bacharach (1966 - 1980) divorced, performer - THE PERFECT SETUP (Jan Sterling, Gene Barry, dir'd by Lamont Johnson, whose bday it is today also)

Len Cariou 09/30/1939 director, performer - HOUSE OF ATREUS (Roberta Maxwell); HENRY V (Robert Foxworth, Roberta Maxwell); APPLAUSE (Lauren Bacall, Bonnie Franklin, Penny Fuller); A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC; DANCE A LITTLE CLOSER (Brent Barrett); TEDDY & ALICE (Beth Fowler, Ron Raines, Nancy Hume, Alex Kramarevsky, Karen Ziemba); THE SPEED OF DARKNESS (Robert Sean Leonard); THE DINNER PARTY (Penny Fuller, John Ritter)

Ellen Parker 09/30/1949 performer - PLENTY (Kate Nelligan); THE HEIDI CHRONICLES (Cynthia Nixon, Boyd Gaines); STRANGERS (Bruce Dern, Lois Nettleton)

Victoria Tennant 09/30/1953 Steve Martin's ex, performer - GETTING MARRIED (Walter Bobbie, Simon Jones)

Vondie Curtis-Hall 09/30/1956 performer - DREAMGIRLS; STARDUST

Eric Stoltz 09/30/1961 performer - 200 Sly Fox; 1988 OUR TOWN; 2 SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS (Judy Kuhn, Victor Garber, Katie Finneran, Brian Bedford, Tom Aldredge); 3 SISTERS (Calista Flockhart, Amy Irving, Jerry Stiller, Billy Crudup)

Jenna Elfman 09/30/1971 performer - tv's DHARMA & GREG

SHOWS THAT OPENED THIS DAY:

1791 Mozart's opera 'The Magic Flute' premiered in Vienna, Austria. (my 1st operatic role was as the 3d Boy)

THE BOHEMIAN GIRL 09/30/1918 - has 1 of the most beautiful songs that is incredibly diff to sing because of its utter simplicity: "I Dreamt That I Dwelt In Marble Halls"

1933 As Thousands Cheer, hailed as one of the greatest stage revues ever, opens at the Music Box Theatre. Moss Hart is author of the "living newspaper"-style sketches. Irving Berlin's score includes "Easter Parade," "Heat Wave" and "Supper Time." Stars include Ethel Waters, Marilyn Miller, Clifton Webb, and Jose Limon.

Edward, My Son 09/30/1948 - Robert Morley, Peggy Ashcroft, Ian Hunter

09/30/1954 - Julie Andrews, became a household name in movies, TV and on records, opened on Broadway for the first time. The future star of The Sound of Music appeared in The Boy Friend this night.

Threepenny Opera 09/30/1955 - Lotte Lenya, Bea Arthur, Jane Connell, Jo Sullivan prod'd by Lucille Lortell

The Student Gypsy 09/30/1963 - Dom De Luise

A Very Rich Woman 09/30/1965 - Ruth Gordon, Katharine Houghton, Carrie Nye, Diana Muldaur, Dick Van Patten

Solitaire / Double Solitaire
- Double Solitaire 09/30/1971 - Martha Schlamme

ON THIS DATE IN:

1930 A hung jury frees Mae West of obscenity charges for her play, Pleasure Man.

1951 - “Thank you and may God bless.” The Red Skelton Show debuted on NBC-TV. America’s ‘Clown Prince of Comedy’ was a hit for years with characters like The Mean Wittle Kid (“I dood it!”), Clem Kadiddlehopper, Sheriff Deadeye, Cauliflower McPugg, Willie Lump-Lump, San Fernando Red, Bolivar Shagnasty and Freddie the Freeloader. Later, he would move to CBS-TV. Overall, The Red Skelton Show remained a fixture on U.S. television for 20 years.

1955 - James Dean, the brooding film actor who won acclaim in Giant, East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause, died age 24 from injuries suffered in a car crash at the intersection of routes 46 and 41, near Cholame, CA, a tiny farm town. Dean, who lived the life of James Stark (his character in Rebel Without a Cause), was killed when his Porsche Spyder ran into another car, head-on at 75 miles an hour. Dean's mechanic, Rolf Wütherich, who was in the Porsche with Dean, was gravely injured, but gradually recovered. Ironically, Wütherich eventually returned to his native (West) Germany and died there in 1981 when his car skidded on a rain-slickened road and struck a tree.

1982 - The gang down at the Boston Beacon Street neighborhood bar called Cheers brought their antics into our homes beginning this night & became an American institution and was still the number one TV show when it ended its eleven-year run on August 19, 1993.

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

Milla

[MeliMel]

Posted: 9/30/04 at 12:32pm

It's also Jeremy Kushnier's ( Footloose, Rent, Aida etc..)birthday!

[BwayLover]

Posted: 9/30/04 at 12:35pm

Three cheers for DEBORAH KERR!!!

*Oh and "Tea And Sympathy" also opened on this day. That's the play my quote is taken from.

Updated On: 9/30/04 at 12:35 PM

Posted: 10/1/04 at 2:20am

It's also my precious dog's big 10th birthday!