Today's Birthdays 9/30
Today's Birthdays 9/30
Today's Birthdays 9/30#0
Posted: 9/29/06 at 9:33pm
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); tv's & film's Witness for the Prosecution; A Woman of Substance; 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); tv's & film's The Kennedys of Massachusetts; Lipstick; Judd for the Defense; The Twilight Zone
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; tv's & film's Cities; To Bear Witness; 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); tv's & film's Dressed to Kill [1 of the films I've yet to see]; Death Valley Days; Meet McGraw; Cry Terror!; Rio Bravo; 1960 & 2001 Ocean's Eleven; A Case of Libel; Big Bad Mama I & II; Police Woman; Cassie & Co.
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); Off Broadway credits include Ernest Hemingway in "Papa"; William O. Douglas in "MOuntain"; Joseph Stalin in "Master Class". Regional: "Traveler in the Dark" (LA); "Paramour" (San Diego).
Marilyn McCoo 09/30/1943 performer; wife of Bill Davis Jr. (1969 - present) [WOW! Marilyn's still married to "Bill, I Love You So. I Always Will]; mbr of Fifth Dimension - The Fifth Dimension with Jo Jo's Dance Factory; 1994 Show Boat [replacement]
Ellen Parker 09/30/1949 performer - PLENTY (Kate Nelligan); THE HEIDI CHRONICLES (Cynthia Nixon, Boyd Gaines); STRANGERS (Bruce Dern, Lois Nettleton)
Victoria Tennant 09/30/1950 performer; daughter of high-profile talent agent Cecil Tennant (her godfather was none other than Laurence Olivier, who was one of Cecil's clients at the time). Her mother was noted prima ballerina Irina Baronova, a Russian émigré; Kirk Stambler (4 March 1996 - present), Steve Martin (20 November 1986 - 1994) (divorced), Matthew Chapman (1978 - 1982) (divorced), Peppo Vanini (1969 - 1976) (divorced) - GETTING MARRIED (Walter Bobbie, Simon Jones); tv's & film's Sphinx; The Winds of War; Best Seller; Flowers in the Attic; Snowy River: The McGregor Saga [loved this series]; Sister Mary Explains It All
Vondie Curtis-Hall 09/30/1956 performer - DREAMGIRLS; STARDUST
Eric Stoltz 09/30/1961 performer - 2004 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 (Jennifer Mary Butala) 09/30/1971 performer; Wife of Bodhi Elfman (1995 - present); Is of Croatian heritage; studied with Milton Katselas; classically trained ballerina - tv's & film's DHARMA & GREG; Murder One; Grosse Pointe Blank; Town & Country; Courting Alex
Jeremy Kushnier 9/30/1975 performer; Brother of Serge Kushnier - Rent [replacement]; Footloose; film's The Adulterer (Emily Skinner, Chris Diamantopoulos, Alice Ripley)
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)
1918 THE BOHEMIAN GIRL 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.
1948 Edward, My Son with Robert Morley, Peggy Ashcroft, Ian Hunter
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.
1955 Threepenny Opera with Lotte Lenya, Bea Arthur, Jane Connell, Jo Sullivan prod'd by Lucille Lortell
1963 - Rick Besoyan follows up his off Broadway success, LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE, with a new Broadway musical, THE STUDENT GYPSY OR THE PRINCE OF LIEDERKRANZ, opening tonight at the 54th Street Theatre. Eileen Brennan (the original Little Mary) is his star once more, this time appearing as Merry May Glockenspiel. Dom De Louise, Shannon Bolin and Mitzi Welch are also featured in the cast. RCA VICTOR is set to record the cast album but, though the score itself is well received by the critics, the show is panned and runs only 16 performances. A cast album is never made.
1965 A Very Rich Woman with Ruth Gordon, Katharine Houghton, Carrie Nye, Diana Muldaur, Dick Van Patten
1971 Solitaire / Double Solitaire
- Double Solitaire with 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.
2004 Hours before a presidential debate between candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry, the Broadway puppet musical Avenue Q stages its own version of the event in Times Square's Duffy Square, with the two contenders played by puppets. The event warns: "Please Note -- Any similarity between puppets and actual Presidential candidates is purely coincidental."
(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
re: Today's Birthdays 9/30#2
Posted: 9/30/06 at 2:42pmHa, my first operatic role was third boy. We called them spirits, though.
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