"jobs from singer to Master of Ceremonies at the Roxy Theater and later, Radio City Music Hall. Dan played many roles on Broadway such as Freddie Eynsford-Hill in ""My Fair Lady"" (1956). Resin appeared in the original off-Broadway production of ""Once Upon a Mattress"", and continued with the show when it made a successful move to Broadway. His stage productions include ""Don't Drink the Water"", ""On a Clear Day You Can See Forever"", ""Fade Out - Fade In"", and ""Young Abe Lincoln"". Resin is most famous for his movie role as Dr. Beeper in the comedy film ""Caddyshack"" (1980). His"
"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),"
"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"
"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"
"(as David Griffith), Tessie O'Shea, Shani Wallis and Laurence Naismith. The original Broadway production began a series of ten previews at The Broadway Theatre on May 12, 1966, and opened officially on May 21, 1966, running for a total of only 41 performances. It closed on June 25, 1966. An Alexander H. Cohen production, it has been called ""probably the best musical he ever produced."" Cohen used an ""extravagant publicity machine"" to bring attention to the show, with the first 100 ticket buyers receiving ""folding chairs and a picnic lunch catered by the Brasserie restaurant."" Ken Mandelbaum argued that ""A"
"run on April 15, 1961. The original cast included Robert Preston (who went on to reprise his role in the 1962 screen adaptation) as Harold Hill, Barbara Cook as Marian, Eddie Hodges as Winthrop, Pert Kelton as Mrs. Paroo, Iggie Wolfington as Marcellus Washburn and David Burns as Mayor Shinn. Eddie Albert and Bert Parks each replaced Preston as Hill later in the run, and Paul Ford was a replacement for Mayor Shinn, later reprising the role in the film version. Howard Bay designed the sets. The musical won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, winning in the same year"
"play debuted at the Sanford Meisner Theatre in New York City's Chelsea district on November 24, 1997 at 6:48pm - the 6th anniversary of Mercury's death. The part of Freddie was played by Khalid Gonçalves (né Paul Gonçalves). On opening night of the play, then-New York City Council member Tom Duane introduced the show. The play ran every night until December 7. The play began its second run on February 14, 1998. On February 17, rock musician Billy Squier, a longtime friend of Freddie's, debuted a song that he wrote in memory of him titled ""I Have Watched You Fly"""
"1956 musical adaptation of Hilton's novel ""Lost Horizon"", entitled ""Shangri-La"". They also adapted ""Auntie Mame"" into the hit musical ""Mame"" with composer Jerry Herman, which won a Tony Award for its star, Angela Lansbury. Less successful was the Lawrence and Lee collaboration with Herman, also starring Lansbury, ""Dear World"", a musical adaptation of Jean Giraudoux's ""The Madwoman of Chaillot"". Several of Lawrence and Lee's plays draw on events from United States history to speak to contemporary issues. ""Inherit the Wind"" (1955) addressed intellectual freedom and McCarthyism by speaking of a fictionalized Scopes Monkey Trial. ""The Gang's All Here"" (1959) examined"
"production, conceived, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins and produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold Prince, marked Sondheim's Broadway debut. It ran for 732 performances before going on tour. The production was nominated for six Tony Awards including Best Musical in 1957, but the award for Best Musical went to Meredith Willson's ""The Music Man"". Robbins won the Tony Award for his choreography and Oliver Smith won for his scenic designs. The show had an even longer-running London production, a number of revivals and international productions. A 1961 musical film adaptation, directed by Robert Wise and Robbins, starred Natalie"
"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"
"ordered to accept a commission in the German navy, but he opposes the Nazis. He and Maria decide on a plan to flee Austria with the children. Many songs from the musical have become standards, such as ""Edelweiss"", ""My Favorite Things"", ""Climb Ev'ry Mountain"", ""Do-Re-Mi"", and the title song ""The Sound of Music"". The original Broadway production, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, opened in 1959 and won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, out of nine nominations. The first London production opened at the Palace Theatre in 1961. The show has enjoyed numerous productions and revivals since then. It"
"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."
"aware of the show's problems and, in an interview, said that they ""could never get by the New York critics."" The musical opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on December 15, 1966, and closed on December 24, 1966, after twelve performances and four previews. Directed by Padula and choreographed by Michael Bennett, the cast featured John Raitt as Shade Motley, Karen Morrow, Susan Watson, Leland Palmer, Tommy Tune and Baayork Lee. A wandering minstrel, Shade Motley, arrives in a small Tennessee town with his fiddle under his arm. The young women of the town find the stranger attractive."
"Musical of 1961. Chadwick Gates (Elvis Presley) has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surfboard, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend Maile Duval (Joan Blackman). His mother, Sarah Lee (Angela Lansbury), wants him to follow in his father's footsteps and take over management at the Great Southern Hawaiian Fruit Company, the family business, but Chad is reluctant, so he goes to work as a tour guide at his girlfriend's agency. His slightly scatter-brained boss is Mr. Chapman (Howard McNear). The first clients Chad has are an attractive school teacher (Abigail"
"running for 1,417 performances. The show won seven Tony Awards, the New York Drama Critics Circle award, and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In 1967, a film based on the musical was released by United Artists, with Morse and Vallee re-creating their stage roles. A 1995 revival was mounted at the same theatre as the original production (now named the Richard Rodgers Theatre). It ran for 548 performances and starred Matthew Broderick and Megan Mullally. A 50th-anniversary Broadway revival directed and choreographed by Rob Ashford and starring Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette opened on March 27, 2011, at the"
"of those age 65 or over. Meredith Willson's 1957 Broadway musical ""The Music Man"" featured the song ""Gary, Indiana"", in which lead character (and con man) Professor Harold Hill wistfully recalls his purported hometown, then prosperous. Hill claims to be an alumnus of ""Gary Conservatory of Music, Class of '05,"" but this is later revealed to be another of his lies. The City of Gary was not founded until 1906. Willson's musical, set in 1912, was adapted both as a film of the same name released in 1962, and as a television film, produced in 2003. The 1996 urban movie"
"the musical was shown in 1956. The original Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on October 5, 1944, directed by William Schorr and produced by John C. Wilson in association with Nat Goldstone. Agnes de Mille was the choreographer, and her contributions included a Civil War ballet. The production starred Celeste Holm as Evelina, David Brooks as Jeff Calhoun, Dooley Wilson as the slave Pompey, and Joan McCracken in the featured dancing role as Daisy. While successful—it closed on April 27, 1946 after 657 performances on Broadway—it has seldom been revived. Alisa Roost directed an Off-Broadway revival, which recreated"
"5 August 1954, running for 2,283 performances to become the longest-running show in musical theatre history until overtaken by ""My Fair Lady"" in the U.S. (1956) and ""Oliver!"" in the U.K. (1960). In the Evening Standard Awards for 1955, ""Salad Days"" was given the Award for Most Enjoyable Show (although ""The Pajama Game"" won as Best Musical). The musical was produced by Denis Carey, with dances arranged by Elizabeth West, and with a cast that featured Dorothy Reynolds in a variety of roles, John Warner as Timothy and Eleanor Drew as Jane. Slade played one of the two pianos. The"
"Hope to Eve Arden. The Berigan recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 The Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 is a musical revue with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, music by Vernon Duke and sketches by Gershwin and David Freedman. The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of revues presented from 1907 through 1931, 1934, 1936, 1943, and 1957. The musical premiered on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre on January 30, 1936 and closed on May 9, 1936 after 115 performances. Produced by Billie Burke Ziegfeld and Lee Shubert and J. J. Shubert, it was directed"
"comedy debut of Marilyn Miller, a 22-year-old ""Ziegfeld Follies"" girl. Miller would continue to be a star on Broadway until her death in 1936. The musical enjoyed a successful production in 1921 in London at the Winter Garden Theatre, starring British musical comedy veterans George Grossmith, Jr. and Leslie Henson, which ran for 387 performances. It also played well in 1923 in Australia, produced by the J. C. Williamson company. There were Broadway revivals in 1923 (at the New Amsterdam Theatre) and 1948 and London revivals in 1942 (at Prince's Theatre) and 1952 (Oxford New Theatre). Other productions included a"
"Follies"" with Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, William Powell, Gene Kelly, Fanny Brice, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Cyd Charisse, Lucille Ball, Kathryn Grayson, and others performing songs and sketches similar to those from the original Follies. Brice appeared in the Follies for more than ten years. The 1964 musical, ""Funny Girl"", starring Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice, depicts Brice's success with the Follies. The 1968 Columbia film of the musical also starred Barbra Streisand as Brice and Walter Pidgeon as Florenz Ziegfeld. The 1912 version of the Ziegfeld Follies included a song entitled ""Row, Row, Row"", which has been"
"music hall"", but added that the play is also ""one of the best family plays in our repertory"". A 1960 film version was adapted by Nigel Kneale and John Osborne. It was directed by Tony Richardson and starred Laurence Olivier, Brenda De Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright, Alan Bates, Daniel Massey, Thora Hird and Albert Finney. Olivier was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance. In November 2008, a radio version, adapted by John Foley, was broadcast on BBC Radio 7, featuring Bill Nighy as Archie, Cheryl Campbell as Phoebe, David Bradley as Billy, Sarah Jane"
"Eddie Hodges Samuel Hodges (born March 5, 1947) professionally known as Eddie Hodges, is an American former child actor and recording artist who left show business as an adult. Hodges was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and traveled to New York City with his family in 1952. This began a long career in show business for Hodges in films, on stage and popular recordings. Hodges made his professional acting debut on stage in Meredith Willson's 1957 Broadway musical ""The Music Man"", in which he originated the character of Winthrop Paroo and introduced the song ""Gary, Indiana"", with Robert Preston and Pert"
"title routine as a single (""King Arthur's Mines,"" another track from the LP was on the flip side). Years later, the original ""Old Philosopher"" routine would be included on the compilation record, ""25 Years of Recorded Comedy"" (Warner Bros. Records 3BX 3131) While writing the routines for a follow-up album, he was rehearsing for his first full-fledged Broadway show. ""Bells Are Ringing"", a new musical by Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, which opened at the Shubert Theatre on November 29, 1956 with Judy Holliday in the lead. In the supporting cast for most of its run, Eddie Lawrence"
"attempting to rape her), so she was acquitted; they make up. The Americans miss the United States (""Homesick Blues"") and go home. Lorelei delays marrying Gus until his father accepts her. Mrs. Spofford gives Dorothy some advice (""Keeping Cool with Coolidge""). Gus's father, Mr. Esmond, arrives and finds that Lorelei is wearing a dress covered in his buttons and that she knows everything about his business (""Button Up with Esmond""). He is impressed and approves of the marriage. The musical opened on Broadway at the Ziegfeld Theatre on December 8, 1949 and closed September 15, 1951, after 740 performances. It"
"in sepia"", the core of the music was composed by Millard Thomas but also featured songs by Shelton Brooks, Ned Reed, Porter Grainger, J. C. Johnson, J. Rosamund Johnson, George A. Little, Arthur Sizemore and Edward G. Nelson. After an out-of-town try-out, the musical opened on 7 October at the Liberty Theatre, New York, where it ran a fairly solid run of 111 performances until 10 January 1931. In 1931, Hall embarked on a world concert tour that visited two continents (America and Europe). The tour was estimated to have performed to more than one million people. During the tour"
"took over the role of Margy part way through the run when McArdle broke her ankle in June 1996. The set design was by James Leonard Joy, the costume design by Michael Bottari and Ronald Case, and the lighting design was by Natasha Katz. The production received 1996 Tony Award nominations for Best Score and Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Scott Wise. It also received three Drama Desk nominations for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Scott Wise and Ben Wright and Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Donna McKechnie. On August 3, 2010, the Finborough"
"the back of this, director Stuart Maunder cast him in three successive musicals for Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House: Freddy Eynsford-Hill in ""My Fair Lady"", Henrik in ""A Little Night Music"" and Frederic in ""The Pirates of Penzance"". During this time, Robinson also appeared as a bit part in the Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks/HBO miniseries ""The Pacific"" and as a weekly on-screen vocal coach on the FOX8 reality TV series ""The Singing Office"". In 2009, Robinson's first musical ""Metro Street"" had its World Premiere at the State Theatre Company of South Australia, co-produced by Arts Asia Pacific and Power"
"on January 10, 1947 at the 46th Street Theatre, where it ran for 725 performances. It was directed by Bretaigne Windust, choreographed by Michael Kidd, with orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett and Don Walker. The cast included Ella Logan as Sharon, Donald Richards as Woody, Albert Sharpe as Finian, with the Lyn Murray Singers. David Wayne won both the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical (the first one ever given) and the Theatre World Award for his performance as Og. The show also received Tonys for Best Conductor and Musical Director (Milton Rosenstock) and Best Choreography. A"
"earning one Tony nomination and three Drama Desk nominations. Various international productions have since spanned across six continents as well as West End and Broadway revivals and eight UK tours. Actor Tim Curry, who originated the role of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the original London production, became particularly associated with the musical. The musical was adapted into the 1975 film ""The Rocky Horror Picture Show"", starring O'Brien as Riff Raff, with Curry also reprising his role; the film has the longest-running release in film history. In 2016, it was adapted into the television film """". The musical was ranked eighth in"
"that ""this department was able to contain itself. ""Bye Bye Birdie"" is neither fish, fowl, nor good musical comedy. It needs work."" Bye Bye Birdie Bye Bye Birdie is a stage musical with a book by Michael Stewart, lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse. Originally titled ""Let's Go Steady"", ""Bye Bye Birdie"" is set in 1958. The story was inspired by the phenomenon of popular singer Elvis Presley and his draft notice into the Army in 1957. The rock star character's name, ""Conrad Birdie"", is word play on the name of Conway Twitty. Twitty is best remembered"
"about the state's history, included West Virginia notables such as Joyce Dewitt and Landon Murphy. Marshall's Broadway credits include ""Skyscraper,"" ""La Cage aux Folles"" and ""The Music Man"". In London's 1962 West End production, Marshall appeared in the stage musical ""Bye Bye Birdie"", a satire on American popular culture in the 1950s inspired by singer Elvis Presley receiving a draft notice into the Army. Marshall played the lead character of Albert Peterson, who writes a song for the pop-singing sensation Conrad Birdie (played by Marty Wilde). The production ran for 268 performances. He is married to his third wife, Laurie"
"his later success as a Broadway singer, dancer, composer, lyricist, theatre director and producer. The show includes such Cohan hit songs as ""Give My Regards To Broadway"", ""You're A Grand Old Flag"", and ""Yankee Doodle Dandy."" The musical opened on Broadway at the Palace Theatre on April 10, 1968 and closed on April 26, 1969 after 433 performances and 8 previews. The show was produced by Emanuel Azenberg and directed and choreographed by Joe Layton. The cast featured Joel Grey as George M. Cohan, Bernadette Peters, Jamie Donnelly, and Betty Ann Grove. The play was profiled in the William Goldman"