Today's Birthdays 9/6
Today's Birthdays 9/6
#0Today's Birthdays 9/6
Posted: 9/3/04 at 1:10pm
I'm posting Friday, Sat., Sun., Mon., & Tues's Birthdays, because I probably won't be near a computer
Otto Kruger 09/06/1885 - Sep 6, 1974 performer, 1 of the BEST bad guys ever, terrifically subtle character actor - origs WILL SHAKESPEARE (Katharine Cornell, Cornelia Otis Skinner; in the same play!); THE ROYAL FAMILY; LAURA; film's SABOTEUR; CASH MCCALL; MURDER, MY SWEET; HITLER'S CHILDREN
Michael Gordon 09/06/1909 - Apr 29, 1993 Director, Designer, Performer, Technical Crew, Stage Manager - origs JOHNNY JOHNSON; GOLDEN BOY; MAGGIE (by Bily Roy); THE TENDER TRAP
John Berry 09/06/1917 - Nov 29, 1999 Director, Performer, Production Crew - orig NATIVE SON (Ray Collins, Everett Sloan); 1972 THE CRUCIBLE; DR. JAZZ (Bobby Van, Lola Falana, Peggy Pope)
Swoosie Kurtz 09/06/1944 performer - 1975 AH, WILDERNESS! (Geraldine Fitzgerald, Linda Hunt, Paul Rudd, Teresa Wright); 1977 TARTUFFE (Tammy Grimes, John Wood, Victor Garber); FIFTH OF JULY (Christopher Reeve, Jeff Daniels, Amy Wright); THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES (Ben Stiller, Danny Aiello, Stockard Channing, Julie Hagerty); IMAGINARY FRIENDS (Cherry Jones); film's THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP
Jane Curtin 09/06/1947 performer - 1981 CANDIDA (Joanne Woodward); 2001 NOISES OFF; 2002 OUR TOWN; tv's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE; KATE & ALLIE
Rosie Perez 09/06/1964 performer - replacements FRANKIE & JOHNNY; THE PLAY WHAT I WROTE; film's IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU
Cameron Boyd 09/06/1984 performer - 1993 ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS (Sam Waterston, Lizabeth MacKay); tv's THE SOPRANOS
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DAY:
9/6/1927 Good News
Blithe Spirit 09/06/1943 - Clifton Webb, Peggy Wood
Catch a Star 09/06/1955 - Pat Carrol, Trude Adams
Players 09/06/1978 - Fred Gwynne, Michael O'Hare
Peter Pan 09/06/1979 - Sandy Duncan, Geo. Rose, Neva Rae Powers
2000 Actor Ralph Fiennes, who played Hamlet on Broadway in 1995 in The Almeida Theatre Company production at the Belasco Theatre returns to New York City in two other Shakespearean roles. The British actor alternates in the leads in The Almeida Theatre Company productions of Richard II and Coriolanus at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Jonathan Kent, who helmed Fiennes in Hamlet, takes on directorial duties once more for this production.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1952 Gertrude Lawrence dies. She was starring as Anna in The King and I at the St. James with Yul Brynner. One of her last requests was that Brynner, her leading man in the show, be upgraded in the posters and Playbills from below to above-the-title billing, sharing star billing with whomever would play Anna in other performances.
1958 - Actor Steve McQueen starred on the CBS-TV series, Wanted: Dead or Alive. McQueen played bounty hunter Josh Randall. Randall was a man of few words but sure knew how to use his .30-.40 sawed-off carbine on the bad guys.
1976 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were reunited by Frank Sinatra -- after 20 years of going their separate ways. The former comedy team warmly met each other again during a surprise visit by Martin to Lewis’s annual Labor Day Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy.
1985 Andre Gregory, Arthur Rubin, Barbara Cook, George Hearn, Mandy Patinkin, Lee Remick, Jim Walton, Howard McGillin, Daisy Prince, Liz Callaway, Betty Cromden, Adolph Green, Liliane Montevecchi, Elaine Stritch, Phyllis Newman, Carol Burnett, Licia Albanese and Erie Mills convene upon the stage at Avery Fisher Hall to perform a concert version of Stephen Sondheim's Follies. The play originally produced on Broadway in 1971 will finally see a revival 30 years later. (Where the heck was I?)
1997 - The Westminster Abbey funeral for Diana, Princess of Wales, was an extraordinary event, marked by numerous poignant moments: The people sobbing and throwing flowers at the funeral cortege winding through the streets of London. Her sons, walking behind her casket with their heads bowed. And Diana’s brother, who during his funeral oration took aim at the media, who he said made the princess “the most hunted person of the modern age.” Elton John sang a rewritten version of Candle in the Wind to “England’s rose”. The song was originally a tribute to film legend Marilyn Monroe, whose own tragic life, like Diana’s, ended at the age of just 36.
1998 Japanese director Akira Kurosawa died at age 88.
(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
Milla
