Today In Theatre History: MARCH 27
By Anne Bradley
and Robert Viagas
27 Mar 2008
1924 Long before Madonna sang about Vogueing, there were the Vogues of 1924. This revue at the Shubert Theatre stars Fred Allen and Jimmy Savo. It will run for almost three months.
1924 Long before Madonna sang about
Vogueing, there were the Vogues of 1924. This revue at the Shubert Theatre stars Fred Allen and Jimmy Savo. It will run for almost three months. 1933 The School for Scandal is revived at London's Old Vic. In the cast are Alaistair Sim, Anthony Quayle and Peggy Ashcroft. 1974 The Prospect Theatre Company stages Shakespeare's Pericles at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. Toby Robertson directs and Derek Jacobi plays the lead. 1977 Martin Balsam and Paul Sparer play cancer patients finding different ways to accept their fates in Cold Storage. This drama by Ronald Ribman will run for six weeks at the American Place Theatre in New York. 1983 Playwright Neil Simon presents the first of his BB trilogy featuring the astute character Eugene Jerome as Brighton Beach Memoirs opens at Broadway's Alvin Theatre. Matthew Broderick, who will reprise the character in the second play Biloxi Blues, stars as the keen protagonist. 1988 Joe Turner's Come and Gone opens its run at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre and stars Angela Bassett and Delroy Lindo. The play, about a family in 1911 Pittsburgh, runs to June 26. 2002 Two comedy giants die today. Milton Berle, the performer who straddled vaudeville, Broadway, radio, nightclubs and movies before becoming the first star of the post-war industry known as television, dies at 93 in Los Angeles. Known as "Uncle Miltie," he appeared on Broadway in the Earl Carroll Vanities (1932) and as Windy Walker in Saluta! (1934), See My Lawyer (1939), Ziegfeld Follies (1936 & 1943), and produced Broadway's I'll Take the High Road and Seventeen. He appeared in Top Banana on a summer stock tour in 1963. He also appeared on Broadway in Herb Gardner's The Goodbye People.
Also today, Dudley Moore, the diminutive actor who reached international heights starring in film comedies, 10 and Arthur, but who was known to theatregoers in London and New York for the revues, Beyond the Fringe, and Good Evening, dies at age 66.
2003 A Broadway adaptation of the film Urban Cowboy opens today, with score cobbled together from more than a dozen songwriters. After receiving harsh reviews, the show will struggle on for 60 performances at the Broadhurst Theatre. Today's Birthdays Gloria Swanson 1899.
Budd Schulberg 1914. Steve McQueen 1930. Austin Pendleton 1940.
Michael York 1942. Jed Bernstein 1955. Quentin Tarantino 1963.
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