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Ace Of Clubs (musical)
''Ace of Clubs'' is a musical theatre, musical written, composed and directed by Noël Coward. The show is set in a 1949 London nightclub called "Ace of Clubs". Nightclub singer Pinkie Leroy falls in love with a sailor. Pinkie and her lover get mixed up with gangsters, a lost package and a missing diamond necklace. In the end, the police arrest the perpetrators, and Pinkie gets her man. The musical premiered at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, on 16 May 1950,''The Manchester Guardian'', 17 May 1950, p. 5 followed by more tryouts at the Liverpool Empire Theatre and the Birmingham Alhambra Theatre. It transferred to the Cambridge Theatre, London, on 7 July 1950, where it ran for 211 performances until 6 January 1951."Cambridge Theatre ''Ace of Clubs''", ''The Times'', 8 July 1950, p. 8 The cast included Pat Kirkwood (actress), Pat Kirkwood, Sylvia Cecil, Graham Payn, Jean Carson and Myles Eason. Mantovani was the musical director.Mander and Mitchenson, pp. 419–420 Stage and costu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musical Theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre, theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole. Although musical theatre overlaps with other theatrical forms like opera and dance, it may be distinguished by the equal importance given to the music as compared with the dialogue, movement and other elements. Since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works have generally been called, simply, musicals. Although music has been a part of dramatic presentations since ancient times, modern Western musical theatre emerged during the 19th century, with many structural elements established by the light opera works of Jacques Offenbach in France, Gilbert and Sullivan in Britain and the works of Edward Harrigan, Harrigan and Tony Hart (theater), Hart in America. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oklahoma!
''Oklahoma!'' is the first musical theater, musical written by the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs's 1931 play, ''Green Grow the Lilacs (play), Green Grow the Lilacs''. Set in farm country outside the town of Claremore, Oklahoma, Claremore, Indian Territory, in 1906, it tells the story of farm girl Laurey Williams and her courtship by two rival suitors, cowboy Curly McLain and the sinister and frightening farmhand Jud Fry. A secondary romance concerns cowboy Will Parker and his flirtatious fiancée, Ado Annie. The original Broadway theatre, Broadway production opened on March 31, 1943. It was a box office hit and ran for an unprecedented 2,212 performances, later enjoying award-winning revivals, national tours, foreign productions and an Academy Awards, Oscar-winning 1955 Oklahoma! (film), film adaptation. It has long been a popular choice for school and community productions. Rodgers and Hammerstein won a Pulitzer Prize Special Citations a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 Musicals
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in Rome as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annex the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establishes his headquarters and the colonies th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheridan Morley
Sheridan Morley (5 December 1941 − 16 February 2007) was an English author, biographer, critic and broadcaster. He was the official biographer of Sir John Gielgud and wrote biographies of many other theatrical figures he had known, including Noël Coward. Nicholas Kenyon called him a "cultural omnivore" who was "genuinely popular with people". Early life Sheridan Morley was born in Ascot, Berkshire, in a nursing home opposite Ascot Racecourse, the eldest son of actor Robert Morley and grandson, via his mother Joan Buckmaster, of the actress Dame Gladys Cooper.Obituary: Sheridan Morley ''Daily Telegraph'', 17 February 2007 He was named after Sheridan Whiteside, the title role his father was playing in a long-running production of '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Manchester Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soho
SoHo, short for "South of Houston Street, Houston Street", is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Since the 1970s, the neighborhood has been the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, art installations such as The Wall (SoHo), and has also been known for its variety of shops ranging from trendy upscale boutiques to national and international chain store locations. The area's history is an archetypal example of inner-city regeneration and gentrification, encompassing Socioeconomics, socioeconomic, cultural, political, and architectural developments. The name "SoHo" derives from the area being "South of Houston Street", and was coined in 1962 by Chester Rapkin, an urban planner and author of ''The South Houston Industrial Area'' study, also known as the "Rapkin Report". The name also recalls Soho, an area in London's West End of London, West End. Almost all of SoHo is included in the SoHo–Cast Iron Historic District, which was designated by the New Yor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Tuddenham
Peter Tuddenham (27 November 1918 – 9 July 2007) was a British actor. He was well known for his voice work, which included the voices of the computers in the BBC science fiction series ''Blake's 7'' (1978–1981). Life and career Tuddenham was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, and raised in the nearby seaside town of Felixstowe. He made his professional debut before the Second World War, in repertory at Hastings. In the wartime Royal Army Service Corps, he appeared in Stars in Battledress.Gaughan, Gavin"Obituary: Peter Tuddenham" ''The Guardian'', 2 August 2007 After the war he joined a production of Ivor Novello's '' The Dancing Years''; later, in 1959, BBC productions of this and another Novello musical, '' Perchance to Dream'', were among his early television appearances. In 1950 he appeared in Noël Coward's '' Ace of Clubs'', which had a moderate run in the West End. Tuddenham first appeared on television in an early ITV production ''The Granville Melodramas'' (1955), with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Darbyshire
Michael Darbyshire (15 October 1917 – 20 November 1979) was an English actor of stage and screen. He is perhaps best known for his role as Hubert Davenport, the Victorian ghost, in the long running BBC TV children's comedy series '' Rentaghost''. He also played one of the eccentric inventors in the 1968 film ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang''. On stage, he appeared in the original West End cast of the musical '' Pickwick'' in 1963, its Broadway transfer in 1965, and a BBC TV adaptation in 1969. He was a member of the Players Theatre Company based in London in Villiers Street, appearing regularly and also on many occasions on the BBC TV series '' The Good Old Days''. Michael Darbyshire died in 1979, during the interval of the first performance of a production of the Ray Cooney Raymond George Alfred Cooney Order of the British Empire, OBE (born 30 May 1932) is an English playwright, actor, and director. His biggest success, ''Run for Your Wife (play), Run for Your Wife' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Lambert (British Actor)
Jack Lambert (29 December 1899 – 13 March 1976) was a Scottish film and television actor. He came to Australia in 1948 to make ''Eureka Stockade''. ''Filmink'' magazine called him "an utterly non-famous and non-exciting actor who, for some reason, Ealing decided to import all the way from Britain to play a lead role." Selected filmography * ''A Honeymoon Adventure'' (1931) – Chauffeur * '' Sorrell and Son'' (1933) – (uncredited) * ''Red Ensign'' (1934) – Police Inspector (uncredited) * '' The Ghost Goes West'' (1935) – Son of MacLaggen (uncredited) * '' House Broken'' (1936) – Jock Macgregor * '' The Last Adventurers'' (1937) – (uncredited) * ''Premiere'' (1938) – Stage Manager * '' Thistledown'' (1938) – (uncredited) * ''The Terror'' (1938) – Warder Joyce (uncredited) * '' Marigold'' (1938) – Minor Role (uncredited) * '' The Outsider'' (1939) – (uncredited) * ''The Spy in Black'' (1939) – Passport Official (uncredited) * '' The Four Feathers'' (1939) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elwyn Brook-Jones
Elwyn Brook-Jones (11 December 1911 – 4 September 1962) was a British theatre, film and television actor. Early life According to his obituary in ''The Times'', Brook-Jones was born in Sarawak on the island of Borneo; however, other sources place his birth in Caerphilly, Wales. ''The Times'' further asserts that he was educated at Jesus College, Oxford; however, the College has no record of his attendance under that name to support this claim. His public debut was in Australia, aged 11, as a concert pianist; he later made cabaret appearances in the US and the Far East. Career Brook-Jones was a repertory actor, first appearing in London in 1943 in ''Hedda Gabler'' as Judge Brack, before going on to appear in many productions in the West End, films and television. In the BBC children's series '' Garry Halliday'', Brook-Jones was the hero's opponent "The Voice". He played Tober in Carol Reed's ''Odd Man Out'' (1947). He was also Gladwin in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisbeth Kearns
Lisa Daniels (31 December 1930 – 12 February 2010) was a British stage, film and television actress. After beginning her career on the West End stage, she moved to Hollywood and worked predominantly in the United States. She also worked as a voice actress on the 1961 film ''One Hundred and One Dalmatians'' as Perdita.Grant p.264 Filmography * ''Man in the Attic'' (1953) - Mary Lenihan * ''Princess of the Nile'' (1954) - Handmaiden * ''The Gambler from Natchez'' (1954) - Ivette Rivage * '' The Glass Slipper'' (1955) - Serafina * '' The Virgin Queen'' (1955) - Mary * ''One Hundred and One Dalmatians'' (1961) - Perdita (voice) * '' The Swimmer'' (1968) - Matron at the Biswangers' Pool (uncredited) * ''The Andromeda Strain'' (1971) - Woman (uncredited) * ''Swashbuckler A swashbuckler is a genre of European adventure literature that focuses on a heroic protagonist stock character who is skilled in swordsmanship, acrobatics, and guile, and possesses chivalrous ideals. A "swas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivien Merchant
Ada Brand Thomson (22 July 1929 – 3 October 1982), known professionally as Vivien Merchant, was an English actress. She began her career in 1942, and became known for dramatic roles on stage and in films. In 1956 she married the playwright Harold Pinter and performed in many of his plays. Merchant achieved considerable success from the 1950s to the 1970s, winning the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress, BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress in 1964. For her role in the film ''Alfie (1966 film), Alfie'' (1966), she received an Academy Awards, Academy Award nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles, BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer. In 1967, she starred in the Broadway (theatre), Broadway production of Pinter's ''The Homecoming'', and received a Tony Award nomination. Her other films included ''Accident (1967 film), Accident'' (1967), ''The Offence'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
