Today's Birthdays 4/21
Today's Birthdays 4/21
#0Today's Birthdays 4/21
Posted: 4/21/05 at 10:53am
Norman Bel Geddes 04/21/1893 - May 8, 1958 Producer, Director, Designer; father of Barbara Bel Geddes, husband of Edith Lutyens - 1931 Hamlet (Raymond Massey); Flying Colors (Patsy Kelly, Clifton Webb, Imogene Coca, Buddy & Vilma Ebsen); Dead End; The Eternal Road (Lotte Lenya, Sam Jaffe, Sidney Lumet, Dickie Van Patten); Siege (Sheldon Leonard); Sons and Soldiers (Stella Adler, Karl Malden, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Gregory Peck); Seven Lively Arts (Benny Goodman, Beatrice Lillie, Bert Lahr, Alicia Markova, Dolores Gray, Nan Wynn; u/s Helen Gallagher)
Queen Elizabeth II (Elisabeth Mary) 4/21/1926 - Queen of the United Kingdom [1952- ]; eldest daughter of George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon; married Philip Mountbatten [1947]: four children: Charles [Prince of Wales], Anne, Andrew, Edward
Elaine May 04/21/1932 writer, performer; half of a comedy duo with Mike Nichols; mother of Jeanne Berlin - After The Night & The Music (J. Smith-Cameron, Jeanne Berlin, Eddie Korbich); Adult Entertainment; An Evening With Mike Nichols and Elaine May; The Office [never officially opened] (Bill Daniels, Jack Weston, Doris Roberts, Tony Lo Bianco); Mike Nichols and Elaine May: Together Again on Broadway; Taller Than a Dwarf; Short Talks on the Universe; California Suite; director: A New Leaf, The Heartbreak Kid, Ishtar, Mikey and Nicky
Charles Grodin 04/21/1935 Producer, Director, Performer - Tchin-Tchin; Absence of a Cello (Mala Powers); Lovers and Other Strangers (Zohra Lampert, Renee Taylor, Dick Van Patten, Mary Louise Wilson); Thieves; Same Time, Next Year; Unexpected Guests; tv's & film's Clifford, Beethoven I & II, Midnight Run, Dave; director, host: The Charles Grodin Show
Patti LuPone 04/21/1949 performer; Sister of Robert LuPone - Evita; Working; The Old Neighborhood; Oliver!; Anything Goes; Patti LuPone on Broadway; Matters of the Heart; Noises Off; & London world premiere of Sunset Boulevard; film's Song Spinner, Driving Miss Daisy, Wise Guys, 1941, Life Goes On; City By The Sea; State & Main; Witness
Tony Danza 04/21/1951 performer - 1997 A View From the Bridge; 1999 The Iceman Cometh (Kevin Spacey, Robert Sean Leonard, Katie Finneran); tv's & film's Family Law, Who’s the Boss, Taxi, Angels in the Outfield, Baby Talk
Andie MacDowell 4/21/1958 - performer - film's Multiplicity, Unstrung Heroes, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Short Cuts, Groundhog Day, Green Card, sex lies and videotape, St. Elmo’s Fire, The Player, Greystroke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
John Cameron Mitchell 04/21/1963 performer - Big River [replacement]; Six Degrees of Separation; The Secret Garden; film's Hedwig And The Angry Inch
SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:
1925 Tallulah Bankhead and Edna Best are Fallen Angels at London's Globe Theatre. Noel Coward's comedy describes two wives who get drunk while trying to get even with their husbands for their indifference. Angels will fly for 158 performances.
1941 The Beautiful People move into Broadway's Lyceum Theatre. William Saroyan's comedy deals with a woman who not only likes the packs of mice that live in her house but thinks they spell her name out with flowers. The play squeaks by for 15 weeks.
1955 The evolution of the human race is just the tip of the argument in Inherit the Wind. Ed Begley and Paul Muni star in the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee drama based on the Scopes "monkey" trial. There will be 806 performances at the National Theatre in New York. A recent National Actors Theatre Broadway revival starred Charles Durning and George C. Scott.
1977 Tomorrow is today, as Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin's musical Annie opens on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre. The show starring Andrea McArdle as the young orphan whose "hard-knock life" turns from rags to riches when she meets tycoon Oliver Warbucks, played by Reid Shelton. The production garners Tony Awards for Best Musical as well as Best Actress for Dorothy Loudon who plays the warden-like Miss Hannigan.
1996 A Delicate Balance with Elaine Stritch, George Grizzard, Rosemary Harris, Mary Beth Hurt, Elizabeth Wilson and John Carter
2000 Four Guys Named Jose..and una Mujer named Maria!, a new Latin musical revue from David Coffman and Dolores Prida, begins performances Off Broadway at the John Houseman Studio Theatre. The play that chronicles the Latin experience through some of the multi cultural musical favorites will then move Sept. 18 to Off-Broadway's Blue Angel Theater, where it closed March 4, 2001.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1895 - Woodville Latham demonstrated the first use of a moving picture projected on a screen in New York City.
On April 21, 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Conn.
(sources: IBDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)
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