"David Tree David Tree (15 July 1915 in London – 4 November 2009), born Ian David Parsons, was an English stage and screen actor from a distinguished theatrical family whose career in the 1930s included roles in numerous stage presentations as well as in thirteen films produced between 1937 and 1941, among which were 1939's ""Goodbye Mr. Chips"" and two of producer Gabriel Pascal's adaptations of Shaw classics, 1938's ""Pygmalion"", in which he portrayed Freddy Eynsford-Hill, and 1941's ""Major Barbara"", in which he was Charles Lomax. Tree was born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, the son of theatre critic Alan"
"John Michael King John Michael King (May 13, 1926 – August 17, 2008) was an American actor most often associated with his roles in musical theatre. The son of actor Dennis King, John Michael King was born in New York City. He made his Broadway debut in a revival of ""The Red Mill"" in 1945. He won the Theatre World Award for his portrayal of Freddy Eynsford-Hill in the original production of ""My Fair Lady"", notable for his rendition of ""On The Street Where You Live"". Additional credits include ""Of Thee I Sing"" (1952), ""Me and Juliet"" (1953), ""Anya"" (1965),"
"on television. He died in New York City, 21 May 1971, aged 73. He was the father of musical theatre actor John Michael King who originated the role of Freddy Eynsford Hill in ""My Fair Lady"". Dennis King pursued his hobby of painting later in life. Dennis King Dennis King (born Dennis Pratt, 2 November 1897 – 21 May 1971) was an English actor and singer. Born in Coventry, Warwickshire, King had a stage career in both drama (including Shakespeare) and musicals. He immigrated to the US in 1921 and went on to a successful career on the Broadway stage."
"Jeremy Brett Peter Jeremy William Huggins (3 November 1933 – 12 September 1995), known professionally as Jeremy Brett, was an English actor. He played fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in four Granada TV series from 1984 to 1994 in all 41 episodes. His career spanned from stage, to television and film, to Shakespeare and musical theatre. He is also remembered for playing the besotted Freddie Eynsford-Hill in the 1964 Warner Bros. production of ""My Fair Lady"". Jeremy Brett was born Peter Jeremy William Huggins at Berkswell Grange in Berkswell, then in Warwickshire. His birthdate was actually on 3 November 1933 but"
"in Australian television on GTV-9's popular variety show, ""In Melbourne Tonight"". Since 1954, he has been married to Beverley Weir, with whom he has two children. His son, Nick Weir, was the host of several game-shows, before becoming a cruise ship entertainment manager. Leonard Weir Leonard Weir (born 1928 in Preston, Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian lyric tenor best known for his performances in stage musicals in the United Kingdom, particularly in the role of Freddy Eynsford-Hill in the original London production of ""My Fair Lady"" along with Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison. He replaced John Michael King who played"
"formulaic aspects. Mr. Letts’s depiction of this budding cross-racial, cross-generational friendship feels a little retrograde, as both Arthur and Franco reveal dimensions that confound each other but help ease the awkwardness between them... But Mr. Letts treads gently, underplaying the surrogate-son aspect of their dynamic."" Jon Michael Hill was nominated for the 2010 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his work in this play. In January 2016, CBS ordered a pilot of a TV show based on the play with Bob Daily as the showrunner. On February 9, 2016, it was reported that"
"has three older siblings: a biological brother (Arik), an adopted brother (Jason), and an adopted sister (Maili). Anders began acting in school plays at a young age but spent most of high school playing sports such as basketball and tennis. When he was a senior in high school, at 15, he played Philip the Apostle in a regional theater production of ""Jesus Christ Superstar"". When he was 18 Anders won the part of George in his high school's production of ""Our Town"", then went on to portray Freddy Eynsford-Hill in a production of ""My Fair Lady"". After moving to Los"
"as Nancy, its primary foe. Freddy actor Robert Englund also has a strange knowledge of it, describing the new Freddy to Heather, and then disappearing from all contact shortly after. Following another earthquake, Heather takes a traumatized Dylan to the hospital, where Dr. Heffner, suspecting abuse, suggests he remain under observation. Heather returns home for Dylan's stuffed dinosaur while his babysitter Julie tries unsuccessfully to keep the nurses from sedating the sleep-deprived boy. Dylan falls asleep from the sedative. Freddy brutally kills Julie in Dylan's dream. Capable of sleepwalking, Dylan leaves the hospital of his own accord while Heather chases"
"– 12 September 1995), known professionally as Jeremy Brett, was an English actor. He played fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in four Granada TV series from 1984 to 1994 in all 41 episodes. His career spanned from stage, to television and film, to Shakespeare and musical theatre. He is also remembered for playing the besotted Freddie Eynsford-Hill in the Warner Bros. 1964 production of My Fair Lady. Brett visited the Huggins family home in Ballyvoy in 1952. [Jeremy Brett] actor Ballyvoy Ballyvoy ( or ""Baile Bhuí"") is a small village and townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is on the"
"in an American city, and is seemingly worldly and knowledgeable. Carl, another gay man is a frequent visitor to the store, is a friend of Jody, and seems to lie a lot about his life and occupation. Despite this, the two seemingly know very little about each other. The play begins with Jody explaining how he found a chair placed in his store one day, without notice, by Carl. Pretty soon, the store is littered with chairs, and after some argument between the two, it is revealed that every chair was owned by someone they knew in their community, who"
"Richard Clayderman, Ricki Lee Jones, Mr Hudson & The Library, Peggy Lee, Vocal Spectrum, Steve Hogarth from Marillion, Bill Frisell, André Previn & Shelly Manne, Bryn Terfel, Ed Townsend, Jason Manford and BirdyHop. On the Street Where You Live ""On the Street Where You Live"" is a song with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, from the 1956 Broadway musical, ""My Fair Lady"". It is sung in the musical by the character Freddy Eynsford-Hill, who was portrayed by John Michael King in the original production. In the 1964 film version, it was sung by Bill Shirley,"
"the play as a “masterpiece”. The play is the first entry in Ridley's unofficially titled ""Brothers Trilogy"", being followed by ""Leaves of Glass"" and ""Piranha Heights"". Ridley dedicated the play to his agent Rod Hall, who was murdered in May 2004, several months before the play's premiere. According to Ridley, the dedication was not originally intended as a response to Hall's death as it had already been planned some time prior to when Hall was killed. ""Mercury Fur"" is set in a post-apocalyptic version of London's East End, where gang violence and drugs - in the form of hallucinogenic butterflies"
"of the uncle. The play's second scene introduces the title character, the woman, otherwise unnamed, known as the Widow, or ""the rich widow of Cornhill."" The Widow is the friend and ""gossip"" of Mistress Foster; her servant Roger is the play's Clown, who provides much of its comic material. (In the play's final two acts, the Widow and Mistress Foster are not merely friends but sisters. This plot inconsistency may be one indication of multiple authorship.) In conversation with a clergyman, the Widow expresses her strange predicament: she has lived the first 37 years of her life with no significant"
"to rob Mrs Hewlett of her jewellery, and agrees to cut Tuck in on the crime, thus, as they see it, redressing the wrong she has done in contriving Joan's disinheritance. A roulette party is in progress. The players are Freddy's house guests, Mrs Hewlett, Oswald, Sir George and Lady Chudleigh, Harry Kenward and Ruth Bennett. After the game the guests go to bed. Tuck arrives, having deceived Joan about his destination. Owing to the carelessness of his manservant, Joan has discovered that Tuck is at The Gables, along with the despised Mrs Hewlett and Oswald Veal. To Tuck's discomfiture"
"played in the workshop of the new Australian musical ""Snugglepot and Cuddlepie"" as Cuddlepie under the direction of Neil Armfield. In 2007 Tee starred alongside Teddy Tahu Rhodes in the opera ""Dead Man Walking"" based on the film of the same name, in which he played the role of Father Grenville. Tee appeared as Freddy Einsford Hill in Opera Australia's production of ""My Fair Lady"" in 2009 in Auckland. The ""Theatre Review"" wrote, ""Hayden Tee is in fine voice, and is deliciously sappy and gushy as the love-struck Freddy."" He played Professor Bhaer in ""Little Women"" for Kookaburra, The National"
"Nicholls has been commissioned for The Old Vic in London, and is in development as of spring 2015. BBC Radio broadcast in 2016 a dramatization, with Margaret Tyzack playing Freddie. At Freddie's At Freddie's is a novel by British author Penelope Fitzgerald. It concerns the run-down, barely viable Temple Stage School, an acting school for children, known as ""Freddie's"", after its headmistress Frieda ""Freddie"" Wentworth. The children regularly perform as fairies in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", Arthur in ""King John"", and the Lost Boys in ""Peter Pan"". Freddie is relentless in her commitment to traditional stage acting, and continually rejects"
"Fuddy Meers Fuddy Meers is an American play by David Lindsay-Abaire. It tells the story of an amnesiac, Claire, who awakens each morning as a blank slate on which her husband and teenage son must imprint the facts of her life. One morning Claire is abducted by a limping, lisping man who claims her husband wants to kill her. The audience views the ensuing mayhem through the kaleidoscope of Claire's world. The play culminates in a cacophony of revelations, proving that everything is not what it appears to be. The play premiered Off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club, running from"
"friend Polly, and drives the great distance from Broken Hill, New South Wales to Darwin, Northern Territory where taking his own life would be legal. The cast of the 2003 production was: ""Variety"" wrote that the story of Rex Bell's journey was ""a great premise for drama"". Bryce Hallett of ""Sydney Morning Herald"" wrote that the play was ""a big-hearted, sprawling, dry-humoured, unwieldy saga which splendidly evokes the landscape of knotted trees, furnace sunsets and the dual feeling of liberation and terror on the journey from Broken Hill to Darwin."" ""Adelaide Review"" wrote ""It is not surprising that playwright Reg"
"Malcolm Sinclair (actor) Malcolm Sinclair (born 5 June 1950) is a British stage and television actor and former President of Trade Union, Equity 2010–18 when he stood down after 4 terms and was replaced by Maureen Beattie. He is perhaps best known for his role as Assistant Chief Constable Freddy Fisher in the television series ""Pie in the Sky"" (1994–1997), although he has an extensive number of film, television and theatre roles to his credit. His brother is Keith Sinclair, the Bishop of Birkenhead. A former pupil at Trinity School of John Whitgift, a student of the University of Hull"
"and lyrics by Stephen Cole and music by Jeffrey Saver was staged in Fort Worth, Texas with Hal Linden and Dee Hoty. Dodsworth (play) Dodsworth is a three-act play by Sidney Howard based on the 1929 novel by Sinclair Lewis. Through the title character, it examines the differences between American and European intellect, manners, and morals. Middle-aged Samuel Dodsworth is the head of Revelation Motor Company, an automobile manufacturing firm. His wife Fran, a shallow and vain woman obsessed with the notion of growing old, convinces her spouse Sam to sell his interest in the company and take her to"
"at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London, starring Anna Friel as Holly Golightly and Joseph Cross as William 'Fred' Parsons. The second version was written by Richard Greenberg for a 2013 Broadway production at the Cort Theatre, starring Emilia Clarke as Holly Golightly, Cory Michael Smith as Fred, and George Wendt as Joe Bell. The Greenberg play was produced in the UK in 2016, called ""a play with music"". It ran at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in the West End in June to September 2016. Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella) Breakfast at Tiffany's is a novella by Truman Capote published in"
"that although Cavendish is more closely based on Kim Philby than any of the other Cambridge spies he is not intended to be a fictional version of that figure. Philby is mentioned several times throughout the play, as are Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean: all of whom in the drama were apparently recruited by Cavendish. Nevertheless, Cavendish and Hill are an amalgamation of the three spies; despite the old man's denigration of the trio as 'drunks, queers and lefties,' Cavendish and Hill are both represented as heavy drinkers, Hill's faith in Sovietism is said to be bordering on fanaticism by"
"play, performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company, to a television drama, due in part to the BBC's fear of legal action. Each of the nine episodes of the serial takes place in the year for which it is named; ""1964"", ""1966"", ""1967"", ""1970"", ""1974"", ""1979"", ""1984"", ""1987"" and ""1995"". The episodes follow the four main characters and their changing lives, careers and relationships against the backdrop of the political and social events in Britain. The four friends are Dominic 'Nicky' Hutchinson (played by Christopher Eccleston), Mary Soulsby (Gina McKee), George 'Geordie' Peacock (Daniel Craig) and Terry 'Tosker' Cox (Mark Strong)."
"He grew up being best friends with Roddy since he was three, together he and Roddy discover the Merlin conspiracy and then spend some time separated from the kings progress. Toby, Arianrhod's cousin from her cousin Dora. Ilsabil and Isadora are two twin sisters whose mother is Roddy's aunt, their mother and grandmother are hereditary witches. Maxwell Hyde is a magid who travels between worlds. He lives in Blest London with Dora (Maxwell's daughter) and Toby (Dora's son). He is Roddy's grandfather on her fathers side. Gwyn ap Nud is Roddy's grandfather on her mother's side, he is also a"
"often involve the most extreme of ways. Freddy is loosely based on both one of Tex Avery's earlier characters, Homer the Homeless Flea from ""What Price Fleadom"" (MGM 1948) and comedian Red Skelton's character, Freddy the Freeloader. A normal dog (voiced by Phil Hayes) gained superpowers after licking a superhero's shoe and became a superhero himself, albeit an incompetent one. Along with his blue cat sidekick Little Buddy (voiced by Lee Tockar), Power Pooch fights the crime in his town which usually involved him fighting Dr. Hydrant (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) and his bone-shaped henchman Boney. He is said to"
"moving to London Hogan's first role was with The National Youth Theatre in Cymbeline, playing Belarius. The following year he starred in the BBC sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. He also appeared in the Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows part II as one of Harry Potter's house mates in Gryffindor. In the same year he went back to the theatre to play Elliot in Extra Virgin and received his first nomination for an Off West End Award for Best Actor. Hogan has appeared in the series ""Emmerdale"". Freddie Hogan Freddie Hogan (born 17 May"
"the stories of his accomplishments are lies, and Freddy begins to wonder if he is who he claims. Since taking his share of Mrs. Bean’s inheritance would force the Beans to sell the farm, Freddy urgently investigates. Evidence mounts, including a conversation overheard between Doty and the Bean animals’ old enemy Mr. Garble. The animals hold a rally, determining that Doty is a fake. Mrs. Bean however is unconvinced. By chance Freddy is drawn into a high school football game. He cannot pass or catch, but his offensive rushing is unstoppable. With the agreement that he attend high school classes,"
"Leonard Weir Leonard Weir (born 1928 in Preston, Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian lyric tenor best known for his performances in stage musicals in the United Kingdom, particularly in the role of Freddy Eynsford-Hill in the original London production of ""My Fair Lady"" along with Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison. He replaced John Michael King who played Freddy in the original Broadway production of the play. Weir made a cameo appearance in the 1959 Sid James comedy film, ""Make Mine a Million."" He appeared on UK television on ""Jack Hylton's Monday Show"" in 1958. From 1969-1970 he made several appearances"
"estate of a rich eccentric socialité, Ethel Hilary, who has a special interest in collecting original characters to her circle of friends at the estate. Besides Randy and his company and yoga master Dickie Brown, a very handsome man named Freddie arrives to the estate. He is unknown to everyone, but is soon romantically interested in Valerie, trying to get her interested in him by singing her a serenade in the night. She mistakes the singer for Randy, and he discovers that Valerie is more interested in Freddie than Paul, and forces her to go with him instead of Freddie"
"5"" (Franklin Hart, Jr.). Other notable performances include shows such as ""Company"" (Bobby), ""Forever Plaid"" (Sparky/Smudge), ""Camelot"" (Lancelot), ""Godspell"" (Judas), ""The Pajama Game"" (Sid), ""The Fantasticks"" (Matt), ""Jekyll & Hyde"" (Stride), ""Little Shop of Horrors"" (Audrey II Voice), ""Guys and Dolls"" (Sky), ""The Music Man"" (Harold), ""Grease"" (Kenickie), ""Jekyll and Hyde"" (Utterson) and ""Lend Me a Tenor"" (Max). Noble was also seen in the world premiere of the play OSWALD, based on the interrogation of suspected presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, which played at the Richmond Shepard Theatre in New York City. Noble is currently cast in David Henrie's directorial"
"the eldery lady as music from ""The Pirates of Penzance"" plays, and Gridley's chief and the Scotland Yard detective arrive to find the nurse detained. Lemmon and Novak had appeared together on-screen twice previously, in ""Phffft!"" (1954), and in ""Bell, Book and Candle"" (1958). In both later films, Novak portrayed a landlady. Ernie Kovacs was originally signed to play Fred Astaire's role before being killed in an auto crash. Kovacs and Lemmon talk about this during an episode of the game show ""What's My Line?"" in which Lemmon was the ""mystery guest"" and Kovacs was a panelist. The song ""A"
"on his job or family. On Christmas Eve, in his rush to get to work, Fred forgets that he must take Pebbles to ""cave care"", and later to pick her up from cave care. When Fred arrives at the theater, he discovers a furious Wilma, who breaks down in tears as she tells Fred about his mistake. The play finally begins with narrator Charles Brickens reading the opening lines, and after a momentary bout of stage fright, Fred enters. The play proceeds as normal. As the second act opens, Wilma and Betty discover that Garnet, the woman playing the Ghost"
"cheering on a horse. Higgins partly conceals a grin behind his hand. At Ascot, she meets Freddy Eynsford-Hill (Jeremy Brett), a young, upper-class man who becomes infatuated with her (""On the Street Where You Live""). Higgins then takes Eliza to an embassy ball for the final test, where she dances with a foreign prince. Zoltan Karpathy (Theodore Bikel), a Hungarian phonetics expert trained by Higgins, converses briefly with Eliza, then certifies that she is not only Hungarian, but a princess. However, Eliza's hard work is barely acknowledged, with all the praise going to Higgins (""You Did It""). This and his"