"Nanny"", as Maxwell Sheffield's disapproving and distant British mother. Her stage credits include the 1983 Broadway revival of the Rodgers and Hart musical ""On Your Toes"", starring Russian prima ballerina Natalia Makarova. In 1991, she appeared in the rotating cast of the off-Broadway staged reading of ""Wit & Wisdom"". In 1991, Merrill and her third husband, Ted Hartley, merged their company, Pavilion Communications, with RKO to form RKO Pictures, which owns the intellectual property of the RKO Radio Pictures movie studio. In the 1960s and 1970s, Merrill was a recurring guest on several network television game and panel shows including"
"have four children. Lara Teeter Lara Teeter (born 1955) is an American dancer, actor, singer, theatre director and college professor. Born in Guthrie, Oklahoma, Teeter earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Oklahoma City University. He made his Broadway debut in the short-lived 1980 musical ""Happy New Year"", followed by another short-lived musical, the stage adaptation of ""Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"", which ran on Broadway in 1982 for five performances. For his third stage effort, the 1983 revival of ""On Your Toes"" he won critical recognition and a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, as"
"Lara Teeter Lara Teeter (born 1955) is an American dancer, actor, singer, theatre director and college professor. Born in Guthrie, Oklahoma, Teeter earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Oklahoma City University. He made his Broadway debut in the short-lived 1980 musical ""Happy New Year"", followed by another short-lived musical, the stage adaptation of ""Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"", which ran on Broadway in 1982 for five performances. For his third stage effort, the 1983 revival of ""On Your Toes"" he won critical recognition and a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, as ""The Hoofer"" and"
"from the 1930s was seen and heard on Broadway with its original musical elements intact in over a generation. Its cast album, conducted by Mauceri, is the first fully digital Broadway cast album (TER Limited: CDTER 1063). The show was nominated for five Antoinette Perry (""Tony"") Awards and won two: for Best Revival of a Musical and Best Actress in a Musical (Natalia Makarova). In addition, ""On Your Toes"" won four Drama Desk Awards (Outstanding Revival; Outstanding Actress in a Musical; Outstanding Director of a Musical; Outstanding Orchestrations). As a result of its success, the received wisdom of rewriting old"
"and teachers. Her emotional homecoming was documented in the film ""Makarova Returns"", which she wrote as well as presented. After her performance at the Kirov, she retired from dancing, donating her shoes and costumes to the Kirov Museum. Today Makarova stages ballets such as ""Swan Lake"", ""La Bayadère"", and ""Sleeping Beauty"" for companies across the world. She retired from dancing due to accumulating injuries, especially to her knees. Makarova won a Tony Award, as well as numerous other stage awards for her performances in Broadway revival of ""On Your Toes"". She played Lydia Lopokova (Lady Keynes) in ""Wooing in Absence"","
"Doreen Wells Doreen Wells, Marchioness of Londonderry (born 25 June 1937) is a British former ballet dancer. Born in London, Wells received her early dance training at the Bush Davies School of Theatre Arts, continuing her studies at the Sadler's Wells Ballet School. She is a winner of the Adeline Genée Gold Medal from the Royal Academy of Dance. She made her professional stage debut in pantomime, before ultimately joining the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet. In theatre, she has performed roles in West End musicals, including the leading role of Vera Baranova in ""On Your Toes"" at the Palace Theatre"
"Dara"" and ""I Want to be Evil"". Her other notable recordings include the UK Top 10 hit ""Under the Bridges of Paris"" (1954), ""Just an Old Fashioned Girl"" (1956) and ""Where Is My Man"" (1983). She starred in 1967 as Catwoman, in the third and final season of the television series ""Batman"". In 1968, her career in America suffered after she made anti-war statements at a White House luncheon. Ten years later, she made a successful return to Broadway in the 1978 original production of the musical ""Timbuktu!"", for which she received the first of her two Tony Award nominations."
"is startled to see his parents waiting to congratulate him. The music-teacher has made it back to his home-ground - the stage. In 1939, Warner Bros. filmed ""On Your Toes"" as adapted by Sig Herzig and Lawrence Riley and written by Richard Macauley and Jerry Wald, with Ray Enright directing. The film stars ballerina Vera Zorina (billed as ""Zorina""), Eddie Albert, Alan Hale and Frank McHugh, and features Leonid Kinskey and Gloria Dickson, with James Gleason, Erik Rhodes, Berton Churchill and Donald O'Connor. Although some of the songs from the Broadway score were used as background music, the film does"
"Carole Shelley Carole Augusta Shelley (16 August 1939 – 31 August 2018) was a British-American actress who made her career in the United States. Her many stage roles included the character of Madame Morrible in the original Broadway cast of the musical ""Wicked"". She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in ""The Elephant Man"" in 1979. Shelley was born in London, England, the daughter of Deborah ("""" Bloomstein), an opera singer of Russian Jewish descent, and Curtis Shelley, a composer of German Jewish origin. Her father had migrated to London before World War"
"a judge on its annual prize committee on several occasions. She has also been active in the Dance Critics Association, the Congress on Research in Dance, the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. For several years (2000-2004), she was a principal researcher on the Popular Balanchine project of the George Balanchine Foundation, charged with compiling dossiers on the 1936, 1954, and 1982 productions of the Broadway musical ""On Your Toes"", choreographed by Mr. Balanchine. She has also been a panelist and judge in programs sponsored by the National"
"Award for her performance in ""Inside U.S.A."", a revue that would run for nearly 400 performances at the New Century Theatre and the Majestic Theatre. Her performance in the 1950 revue ""Bless You All"" was praised by Life magazine both for her dancing and for her singing abilities. Rita Hayworth's dances to the songs ""Trinidad Lady"" and ""I've Been Kissed Before"" (in the 1952 movie ""Affair in Trinidad""), as well as the ""Dance of the Seven Veils"" (in the 1953 movie ""Salome"") were choreographed by Valerie Bettis. Valerie Bettis Valerie Elizabeth Bettis (December 1919 – 26 September 1982) was an"
"fellow principal dancer Leonid Kozlov, defected. They guest-starred internationally for the next few years, and Kozlova briefly became a principal dancer with The Australian Ballet. In 1982, she made her Broadway debut in the revival of ""On Your Toes"", featuring George Balanchine's ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. Balanchine asked Kozlova and Kozlov to join New York City Ballet in 1983, where she remained a principal dancer until 1995, when she left the company. While with NYCB, Kozlova was praised for her strong technique, flexibility and exuberance. Describing Kozlova's performances in Balanchine's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream,"" ""The New York Times'"" critic"
"a 1943 film adaptation starring Lucille Ball, Allyson and Walker, and a 1954 television adaptation. A 1963 Off-Broadway revival at Stage 73 ran for 224 performances. It was directed and choreographed by Danny Daniels and featured newcomer Liza Minnelli, who won a Theatre World Award, and Christopher Walken. Veronica Lake was a replacement as Gale. A recording of this revival is available on CD. Before ""Best Foot Forward"", George Abbott had hired Hugh Martin to write musical arrangements for several shows, including Rodgers and Hart shows. By 1941, Larry Hart was suffering from alcoholism, and Richard Rodgers was having difficulty"
"at her home in New York from undisclosed causes. Her daughter, Pamela Saunders, was by her side. Margery Beddow Margery Beddow (December 13, 1937 – January 3, 2010) was an American actress, dancer, director and choreographer. In her early career, Beddow was a prima ballerina of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo and a dancer with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. Beddow appeared on Broadway in ""Redhead"", ""Conquering Hero"", ""We Take the Town"", ""Two on the Aisle"", ""Almanac"", ""Take Me Along"", ""Ulysses in Nighttown"", and revivals of ""Fiorello!"" and ""Showboat"". She appeared in seven Bob Fosse musicals. She had a small"
"and summaries of her singing and acting accomplishments. Honorary awards Betty Buckley Betty Lynn Buckley (born July 3, 1947) is an American actress and singer. She won the 1983 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Grizabella in the original Broadway production of ""Cats"". She went on to play Norma Desmond in ""Sunset Boulevard"" (1994–96) in both London and New York, receiving a 1995 Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical, and was nominated for the 1997 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for ""Triumph of Love"". Her other Broadway"
"Ana Villafañe Ana Teresa Villafañe ( ; born June 5, 1989) is an American actress and singer from Miami, Florida, best known for her portrayal of pop icon Gloria Estefan in the Broadway musical ""On Your Feet!"" She was born on June 5, 1989 in Miami, Florida. She graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. She is of Cuban and Salvadoran descent. Villafañe's film and television credits include: the award-winning ""Magic City Memoirs"" (executive producer Andy Garcia), “Los Americans” created by Dennis Leoni (“Resurrection Boulevard”), Hiding (Anchor Bay), the Hulu Original Series ""South Beach"" set in her native"
"Depot and was interred next to her husband at Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Lynn Fontanne Lynn Fontanne (; 6 December 1887 – 30 July 1983) was a British-born American-based actress for over 40 years. She teamed with her husband, Alfred Lunt. Lunt and Fontanne were given special Tony Awards in 1970. They both won Emmy Awards in 1965, and Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre was named for them. Fontanne is regarded as one of the American theater's great leading ladies of the 20th century. Born Lillie Louise Fontanne in Woodford, London, of French and Irish descent, her parents were Jules"
"On Your Toes On Your Toes (1936) is a musical with a book by Richard Rodgers, George Abbott, and Lorenz Hart, music by Rodgers, and lyrics by Hart. It was adapted into a film in 1939. While teaching music at Knickerbocker University, Phil ""Junior"" Dolan III tries to persuade Sergei Alexandrovich, the director of the Russian Ballet, to stage the jazz ballet ""Slaughter on Tenth Avenue"". After becoming involved with the company's prima ballerina, Vera Barnova, Junior is forced to assume the male lead in ""Slaughter"". Trouble ensues when he becomes the target of two thugs hired by Vera’s lover"
"and Margaret Lee. Riley shared screenwriting credits with Earl W. Baldwin and Lillie Hayward (the dialogue by Brown Holmes was uncredited). The plot concerns an attractive office girl, played by Marion Davies, who masks her sex-appeal by wearing horn-rimmed glasses and dressing conservatively in order to discourage men's attentions. Her ploy fails when her boss, played by Robert Montgomery, catches her in her casual attire. In 1939, Warner Bros. released ""On Your Toes"", a musical directed by Ray Enright. The stage production of the same name had been a smash on Broadway, with the book by George Abbott, Lorenz Hart"
"cause was cancer. Carole Shelley Carole Augusta Shelley (16 August 1939 – 31 August 2018) was a British-American actress who made her career in the United States. Her many stage roles included the character of Madame Morrible in the original Broadway cast of the musical ""Wicked"". She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in ""The Elephant Man"" in 1979. Shelley was born in London, England, the daughter of Deborah ("""" Bloomstein), an opera singer of Russian Jewish descent, and Curtis Shelley, a composer of German Jewish origin. Her father had migrated to London"
"she played the role of Mrs Monroe between 1990 and 1994. She appeared as a regular panellist on the popular BBC2 panel game show ""What's My Line?"" in 1973. Anna Quayle Anne V. M. ""Anna"" Quayle (born 6 October 1932) is an English former actress. In 1963, she received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in the original production of ""Stop the World – I Want to Get Off"". She was born in Birmingham, England as Anne V. M. Quayle on 6 October 1932 and raised in a staunchly Catholic home. Her parents"
"Mary Testa Mary Testa (born June 4, 1955) is an American stage and film actress and singer. She is a two-time Tony Award nominee, for performances in revivals of Leonard Bernstein's ""On the Town"" (1998) and ""42nd Street"" (2001). Testa was born in Philadelphia and has one sister. At age four, her family moved to Rhode Island. She studied acting at the University of Rhode Island. Testa left school to move to New York in 1976 to pursue a performing career. Testa made her debut Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons as Miss Goldberg in William Finn's one-act musical ""In Trousers"" (1979),"
"Jerome Robbins Jerome Robbins (October 11, 1918 – July 29, 1998) was an American choreographer, director, dancer, and theater producer who worked in classical ballet, on Broadway, and in films and television. Among his numerous stage productions he worked on were ""On the Town"", ""Peter Pan"", ""High Button Shoes"", ""The King and I"", ""The Pajama Game"", ""Bells Are Ringing"", ""West Side Story"", ""Gypsy"", and ""Fiddler on the Roof""; Robbins was a five-time Tony Award-winner and a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors. He received two Academy Awards, including the 1961 Academy Award for Best Director with Robert Wise for ""West"
"3"" (2007).<br> On 11 September 2018, a week before her 91st birthday, Harris took over the rôle of Mrs Higgins in the Broadway revival of My Fair Lady from Diana Rigg. Rosemary Harris Rosemary Ann Harris (born 19 September 1927) is an English-born actress. She is a 1986 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee. Harris began her stage career in 1948, before making her Broadway debut in 1952. For her New York stage work, she is a four-time Drama Desk Award winner and nine-time Tony Award nominee, winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play in 1966 for"
"and political mores of the time appear in Pat Barker's 1993 novel ""The Eye in the Door"", the second part of the ""Regeneration"" trilogy. Allan's libel suit is the subject of a ""fictography"", ""The Maud Allan Affair"" by Russell James and a stage play ""Salomania"" by Mark Jackson, which premiered at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley, CA in June 2012. Maud Allan Maud Allan (27 August 1873 – 7 October 1956) was a pianist-turned-actress, dancer and choreographer who is remembered for her ""impressionistic mood settings"". Allan was born as Beulah Maude Durrant in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Sources give contradictory dates"
"Lorenz Hart and Vernon Duke. Balanchine choreographed Broadway's ""On Your Toes,"" in 1936. This musical featured the ballet ""Slaughter On Tenth Avenue,"" in which a tap dancer falls in love with a dance-hall girl. His choreography in musicals was unique at the time because it furthered the plot of the story. Balanchine relocated his company to Hollywood during 1938, where he rented a white two-story house with ""Kolya"", Nicholas Kopeikine, his ""rehearsal pianist and lifelong colleague"", on North Fairfax Avenue not far from Hollywood Boulevard. Balanchine created dances for five movies, all of which featured Vera Zorina, whom he met"
"Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Ashley left Louisiana State University after her freshman year and moved to New York. She studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre there, supporting herself by working as the Jell-O Pudding girl on a television program and as a showroom model. Ashley won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for ""Take Her, She's Mine"", then later starred as Corie in the original Broadway production of Neil Simon's ""Barefoot in the Park"" (1963) and, later, as Maggie in a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"" (1974)."
"Kathleen Maguire Kathleen Maguire (September 27, 1925, New York City, New York – August 9, 1989, The Bronx, New York) was an American actress who won an Obie Award in 1958 for her performance in the stage play, ""The Time of the Cuckoo"". She was also known for two roles in two short lived soap operas on television, first as wealthy widow, Kate Austen on ""A Flame in the Wind""; and as extremely conservative doctor's wife, Adrian Sims on the series ""A World Apart"". She later replaced Doris Belack in the role of Anna Wolek Craig in the long-running serial"
"Although directors and choreographers have had a major influence on musical theatre style since at least the 19th century, George Abbott and his collaborators and successors took a central role in integrating movement and dance fully into musical theatre productions in the Golden Age. Abbott introduced ballet as a story-telling device in ""On Your Toes"" in 1936, which was followed by Agnes de Mille's ballet and choreography in ""Oklahoma!"". After Abbott collaborated with Jerome Robbins in ""On the Town"" and other shows, Robbins combined the roles of director and choreographer, emphasizing the story-telling power of dance in ""West Side Story"","
"New London Theatre was renamed the Gillian Lynne Theatre, making it the first theatre in the West End of London to be named after a non-royal woman. Gillian Lynne Dame Gillian Barbara Lynne, (née Pyrke; 20 February 1926 – 1 July 2018) was an English ballerina, dancer, choreographer, actress, and theatre-television director, noted for her theatre choreography associated with two of the longest-running shows in Broadway history, ""Cats"" and ""The Phantom of the Opera"". At age 87, she was made a DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2014 New Year Honours List. Gillian Barbara"
"a total run of 315 performances. The cast included Ray Bolger, Tamara Geva, and Monty Woolley. The London West End production opened on 5 February 1937, at the Palace Theatre, with Jack Whiting and Vera Zorina as the dancers. The first Broadway revival, directed by Abbott and choreographed by Balanchine, opened on October 11, 1954 at the 46th Street Theatre, where it ran for 64 performances. The cast included Vera Zorina, Bobby Van, and Elaine Stritch. The original score was embellished with ""You Took Advantage of Me."" The second revival, directed by Abbott and choreographed by Donald Saddler, started in"
"have orders to shoot the leading dancer (played by Ray Bolger in the original production). The dancer, who has been warned just in time, evades them by suddenly dancing at full speed even after the ballet actually ends, and finally two police officers enter and arrest the gangsters. ""Slaughter on Tenth Avenue"" was danced by Ray Bolger and Tamara Geva in the original stage production of ""On Your Toes"", and by Eddie Albert and Vera Zorina in the film version. In ""Words and Music"", the 1948 Technicolor film biography of Rodgers and Hart, the ballet was danced by Gene Kelly"
"Lisa Banes Lisa Banes (born July 9, 1955) is an American actress. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 1984 for ""Isn't it Romantic?"" and won a 1981 Theatre World Award for her performance as Alison Porter Off-Broadway in ""Look Back in Anger"". In film, she has appeared in ""Cocktail"" (1988), ""Freedom Writers"" (2007), and ""Gone Girl"" (2014). Appeared in the 2016 film ""A Cure for Wellness"" as the character Hollis. Banes was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. She studied acting at the Juilliard School in New York City. On Broadway"