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Date of Death: November 27, 1981 (83)

Birth Place: Penzing, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

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Angela Lansbury To Host 'CELEBRATING BEA ARTHUR' Memorial Service 9/14
by BWW News Desk - Sep 14, 2009

On Monday, September 14, 2009, Five-time Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury will host a memorial for friends and family of Tony and Emmy Award-winning entertainment icon Beatrice Arthur at Broadway's Majestic Theatre (247 W. 44th St.).

Angela Lansbury To Host 'CELEBRATING BEA ARTHUR' Memorial Service 9/14
by Eddie Varley - Sep 11, 2009

On Monday, September 14, 2009, Five-time Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury will host a memorial for friends and family of Tony and Emmy Award-winning entertainment icon Beatrice Arthur at Broadway's Majestic Theatre (247 W. 44th St.).

Chuck Cooper, Theresa McCarthy, and Morgan James Launch THE COTERIE At Joe's Pub 9/21
by Gabrielle Sierra - Sep 9, 2009

The Coterie, a new downtown company devoted to developing contemporary music theater works, will launch with a concert at Joe's Pub on September 21st, 2009 at 9:30pm.

AN EVENING OF MUSIC AND COMEDY IV at Don't Tell Mama on 10/5 to feature Analisa Leaming
by Jaimie Geddes - Sep 9, 2009

Michael Martinez is proud to present An Evening of Music and Comedy VI at Don't Tell Mama. This showcase and variety show will feature singers Analisa Leaming (Annie - National Tour and The Sound Of Music -Asian Tour), Gabriella Marie Antonino, and Zander Meisner (National Tours of Annie and CATS). Composer and lyricist Zoe Sarnak with singers Christina Buckley and Rachel Flynn, will perform songs from her original new musical 'The Quad'.

Angela Lansbury To Host 'CELEBRATING BEA ARTHUR' Memorial Service 9/14
by Eddie Varley - Sep 1, 2009

On Monday, September 14, 2009, Five-time Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury will host a memorial for friends and family of Tony and Emmy Award-winning entertainment icon Beatrice Arthur at Broadway's Majestic Theatre (247 W. 44th St.).

Patty Smith Dance Comes To Town Hall Theater 8/28
by BWW News Desk - Aug 28, 2009

'Songs of Experience' Patty Smith Solo Dance at Town Hall Theater Friday, August 28 at 8 pm

Oakbrook's 'Cabaret' a Seamless, Compelling Theatrical Vision
by Paul W. Thompson - Aug 20, 2009

Run. Do not walk. Run to Oakbrook Terrace-or, at least, run to your car, train, bus, taxi or helicopter-in order to get to Chicago's western suburbs. There you will witness an extraordinary night of theater, Jim Corti's staging of 'Cabaret,' which is seamless, courageous and frequently state-of-the-art.

Patty Smith Dance Comes To Town Hall Theater 8/28
by Gabrielle Sierra - Aug 11, 2009

'Songs of Experience' Patty Smith Solo Dance at Town Hall Theater Friday, August 28 at 8 pm

Mann, Carmello, Chamberlin, Hoffman, James and More Join Lane and Neuwirth in THE ADDAMS FAMILY
by Robert Diamond - May 11, 2009

Two-time Tony Award winners NATHAN LANE (The Producers, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) and BEBE NEUWIRTH (Chicago, Sweet Charity) will star as Gomez and Morticia in THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a new musical based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams. Produced by Stuart Oken, Roy Furman, Michael Leavitt and Five Cent Productions, by special arrangement with Elephant Eye Theatrical, THE ADDAMS FAMILY will open on Broadway Thursday, April 8, 2010 at a Nederlander theatre to be announced. Previews will begin Thursday, March 4, 2010 following a pre-Broadway engagement at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre in Chicago that begins November 13.

EAT's Illuminating Artists- New Works Series Plays 3 Weeks At TADA, 4/27-5/17
by BWW News Desk - Apr 27, 2009

EMERGING ARTISTS THEATRE, Paul Adams, Artistic Director, and Derek Jamison, Associate Artistic Director, present the Illuminating Artists- New Works Series, for three weeks at TADA Theatre. Performances begin Monday, April 27, 2009, and continue through Sunday, May 17, 2009.

Joes Pub Announces LITTLE ANNIE / EDISON WOODS 4/22
by BWW News Desk - Apr 22, 2009

LITTLE ANNIE / EDISON WOODS Wednesday, April 22 at 9:30 PM 'While a couple of pop oddballs cavort through another revival of Weill's 'Threepenny Opera', the true heir to Lotte Lenya's barstool, Little Annie, still holds court downtown. Little Annie has seen and done it all...she remains astonished--and astonishing--while recounting these adventures.' TimeOut NY

EAT's Illuminating Artists- New Works Series Plays 3 Weeks At TADA, 4/27-5/17
by Gabrielle Sierra - Apr 14, 2009

EMERGING ARTISTS THEATRE, Paul Adams, Artistic Director, and Derek Jamison, Associate Artistic Director, present the Illuminating Artists- New Works Series, for three weeks at TADA Theatre. Performances begin Monday, April 27, 2009, and continue through Sunday, May 17, 2009.

Joes Pub Announces LITTLE ANNIE / EDISON WOODS 4/22
by Gabrielle Sierra - Mar 25, 2009

LITTLE ANNIE / EDISON WOODS Wednesday, April 22 at 9:30 PM 'While a couple of pop oddballs cavort through another revival of Weill's 'Threepenny Opera', the true heir to Lotte Lenya's barstool, Little Annie, still holds court downtown. Little Annie has seen and done it all...she remains astonished--and astonishing--while recounting these adventures.' TimeOut NY

Village Theater Premieres STUNT GIRL In Issaquah 3/18-4/26
by BWW News Desk - Mar 18, 2009

Village Theatre produces the World Premiere production of the new musical Stunt Girl, a fast and funny account of the true life of New York's first female investigative journalist, Nellie Bly. Village Theatre is excited to announce the incredible cast of Stunt Girl, on stage in Issaquah March 18-April 26, 2009 and in Everett May 1-24, 2009.

THE FIREBRAND OF FLORENCE Begins 3/12
by BWW News Desk - Mar 12, 2009

On March 12, 2009 at 7:00 p.m., The Collegiate Chorale appears with The New York City Opera Orchestra at the newly renovated Alice Tully Hall in a performance of Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin's 1945 Broadway operetta The Firebrand of Florence. The performance, led by guest conductor Ted Sperling, stars baritone Nathan Gunn, soprano Anna Christy, baritone Terrence Mann, and soprano Victoria Clark. Krysty Swann, David Pittu and Patrick Goss complete the cast, and narration will be provided by Stage Director Roger Rees. Boasting a score by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and a book by playwright and screenwriter Edwin Justus Mayer, The Firebrand of Florence had a short run on Broadway in 1945. The work was subsequently not heard for over a half-century until three presentations - Ohio Light Opera (1999), the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London (2000) and the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Vienna (2000) - shed new light on the relatively obscure work. The performances were not only accepted, but widely acclaimed, thus giving hope for a new life in a new century. Variety's theater critic Steven Suskin says 'I have long believed that Firebrand in concert should be a dazzling delight.' Benvenuto Cellini, the great Florentine artist, is sentenced to hang, but he is pardoned when the duke realizes that he has not completed a previously commissioned sculpture. Freed, he is able to turn his attention to his favorite model (and object of his affections), Angela. The Duke also is interested in Angela. In a typical operetta plot, Cellini swashbuckles around the stage, keeping the Duke away from Angela, keeping himself away from the Duchess, and escaping yet another death sentence by fleeing to Paris, as the end of the show recapitulates the beginning.

A Firebrand of Florence: Victoria Clark
by Jena Tesse Fox - Mar 9, 2009

Victoria Clark talks about Kurt Weill, motherhood and teaching the next generation of artists.

Village Theater Premieres STUNT GIRL In Issaquah 3/18-4/26
by Gabrielle Sierra - Feb 20, 2009

Village Theatre produces the World Premiere production of the new musical Stunt Girl, a fast and funny account of the true life of New York's first female investigative journalist, Nellie Bly. Village Theatre is excited to announce the incredible cast of Stunt Girl, on stage in Issaquah March 18-April 26, 2009 and in Everett May 1-24, 2009.

THE THREEPENNY OPERA Opens At International City Theater
by BWW News Desk - Feb 20, 2009

Filled with colorful criminals, biting social satire and a brilliant score, The Threepenny Opera opens International City Theatre's 2009 Season at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center. Jules Aaron directs Michael Feingold's translation of the trailblazing musical by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill that became one of the most influential plays of the 20th Century. Darryl Archibald is musical director and Kay Cole choreographs the five-week run February 20 through March 22; low-priced previews begin February 17. First performed in 1928, Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera was a revolutionary musical theater masterpiece that mocked the bourgeois political movement of pre-Hitler Germany. Brecht's brittle, sardonic tale of beggars, thieves and prostitutes, adapted from the 1728 play The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, was a fierce social and political critique, and Weill's innovative score that fused American jazz with German cabaret captured the ironic tone of the lyrics. Part acid social criticism, part bittersweet romance, the now eighty-year old saga of 'Mack the Knife' and his entourage of criminals and whores has never lost its theatrical punch. 'It's a satire on capitalism and corruption told from the viewpoint of the 'little people',' notes Aaron. 'If there was ever time to revive this show, it's now. Michael [Feingold]'s translation is earthy, gritty and very funny. I think it's going to strike a chord with audiences.'

THE FIREBRAND OF FLORENCE Begins 3/12
by Gabrielle Sierra - Jan 26, 2009

On March 12, 2009 at 7:00 p.m., The Collegiate Chorale appears with The New York City Opera Orchestra at the newly renovated Alice Tully Hall in a performance of Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin's 1945 Broadway operetta The Firebrand of Florence. The performance, led by guest conductor Ted Sperling, stars baritone Nathan Gunn, soprano Anna Christy, baritone Terrence Mann, and soprano Victoria Clark. Krysty Swann, David Pittu and Patrick Goss complete the cast, and narration will be provided by Stage Director Roger Rees. Boasting a score by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and a book by playwright and screenwriter Edwin Justus Mayer, The Firebrand of Florence had a short run on Broadway in 1945. The work was subsequently not heard for over a half-century until three presentations - Ohio Light Opera (1999), the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London (2000) and the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Vienna (2000) - shed new light on the relatively obscure work. The performances were not only accepted, but widely acclaimed, thus giving hope for a new life in a new century. Variety's theater critic Steven Suskin says 'I have long believed that Firebrand in concert should be a dazzling delight.' Benvenuto Cellini, the great Florentine artist, is sentenced to hang, but he is pardoned when the duke realizes that he has not completed a previously commissioned sculpture. Freed, he is able to turn his attention to his favorite model (and object of his affections), Angela. The Duke also is interested in Angela. In a typical operetta plot, Cellini swashbuckles around the stage, keeping the Duke away from Angela, keeping himself away from the Duchess, and escaping yet another death sentence by fleeing to Paris, as the end of the show recapitulates the beginning.

THE THREEPENNY OPERA Opens At International City Theater
by Gabrielle Sierra - Jan 20, 2009

Filled with colorful criminals, biting social satire and a brilliant score, The Threepenny Opera opens International City Theatre's 2009 Season at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center. Jules Aaron directs Michael Feingold's translation of the trailblazing musical by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill that became one of the most influential plays of the 20th Century. Darryl Archibald is musical director and Kay Cole choreographs the five-week run February 20 through March 22; low-priced previews begin February 17. First performed in 1928, Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera was a revolutionary musical theater masterpiece that mocked the bourgeois political movement of pre-Hitler Germany. Brecht's brittle, sardonic tale of beggars, thieves and prostitutes, adapted from the 1728 play The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, was a fierce social and political critique, and Weill's innovative score that fused American jazz with German cabaret captured the ironic tone of the lyrics. Part acid social criticism, part bittersweet romance, the now eighty-year old saga of 'Mack the Knife' and his entourage of criminals and whores has never lost its theatrical punch. 'It's a satire on capitalism and corruption told from the viewpoint of the 'little people',' notes Aaron. 'If there was ever time to revive this show, it's now. Michael [Feingold]'s translation is earthy, gritty and very funny. I think it's going to strike a chord with audiences.'

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