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Tommy Tune
Thomas James Tune (born February 28, 1939) is an American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, producer, and choreographer. Over the course of his career, he has won ten Tony Awards, the National Medal of Arts, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Early life Tune was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, to oil rig worker, horse trainer, and restaurateur Jim Tune and Eva Mae Clark along with his sister, Gracey. He attended Mirabeau B. Lamar High School, Houston and the Methodist-affiliated Lon Morris College in Jacksonville, Texas. He studied dance under Patsy Swayze in Houston. He also studied dance with Kit Andree in Boulder, Colorado. He went on to earn his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from the University of Texas at Austin in 1962 and his Master of Fine Arts in Directing from the University of Houston. Tune later moved to New York to start his career. Career Tune stands a lanky tall, and at first he found his height to be a disadvantage when auditioning for roles, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wichita Falls, Texas
Wichita Falls ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Wichita County, Texas, United States. It is the principal city of the Wichita Falls metropolitan area, Wichita Falls metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all of Archer County, Texas, Archer, Clay County, Texas, Clay, and Wichita Counties. According to the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, it had a population of 102,316, making it the List of municipalities in Texas, 43rd-most populous city in Texas. Wichita Falls is home to Midwestern State University, enrolling more than 5,500 students. History From the early 18th century to the mid 19th century, the Wichita Falls area was inhabited by the Wichita people, Wichita and the Comanche people. The Spanish called the lands controlled by the Comanche as Comancheria. The Wichita were forced onto a reservation in Oklahoma after 1859. The last battle with the Comanche in this area occurred in 1872 and the Comanche were finally defeated in 1874. Anglo-American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Garrison (television Producer)
Marvin Ginsburg (February 20, 1924 – March 25, 2005), known professionally as Greg Garrison, was an American Television producer, producer and Television director, director in television. Career While he was a 17-year-old student at Northwestern University, Garrison worked as a copy boy in a Chicago radio station's news department. His education and that job were interrupted by World War II. After the war, he became a director in Philadelphia. A career move took him from there to Chicago, where he created series, including ''Stand By for Crime.'' Garrison started his television career by accident at the age of 22. Among his first productions were ''Kate Smith, The Kate Smith Show'' (CBS, 1950) and ''Your Show of Shows''. He went on to produce and direct many television specials with Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Donald O'Connor and many others. Garrison directed the feature films ''Hey, Let's Twist!'' (1961), and ''Two Tickets to Paris'' (1962). He was probably best known for prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cloud Nine (play)
''Cloud Nine'' (sometimes stylized as ''Cloud 9'') is a 1979 British two-act play written by British playwright Caryl Churchill. It was workshopped with the Joint Stock Theatre Company in late 1978 and premiered at Dartington College of Arts, Devon, on 14 February 1979.Caryl Churchill, ''Plays: One'' (London: Methuen London, 1985) The two acts of the play form a contrapuntal structure. Act I is set in British colonial Africa in the Victorian era, and Act II is set in a London park in 1979. However, between the acts only twenty-five years pass for the characters. Each actor plays one role in Act I and a different role in Act II – the characters who appear in both acts are played by different actors in the first and second. Act I parodies the conventional comedy genre and satirizes Victorian society and colonialism. Act II shows what could happen when the restrictions of both the comic genre and Victorian ideology are loosened. The play uses controversial portrayals of sexuality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Club (musical)
The Club may refer to: Film * ''The Club'' (1980 film), a 1980 satirical film adapted from a play by David Williamson * ''The Club'' (1981 film), by Kirk Wong * ''The Club'' (1994 film), with Matthew Ferguson * ''The Club'' (2015 film), a 2015 Chilean film Music and radio * The Club (radio show); see ''Rage'' (TV program) * "The Club" (song), by The Grace from the album '' Graceful 4'' * '' Perfecto Presents: The Club'', an album by Paul Oakenfold * "The Club", a song in ''In The Heights'' Television * ''The Club'' (Australian TV series), a 2002 Australian reality television series * ''The Club'' (British TV series), a 2003 British reality television series * ''The Club'' (2004 TV series), a 2004–2005 American reality television series that aired on SpikeTV * ''The Club'' (2010 TV series), a 2010 American reality television series about the Chicago White Sox that aired on MLB Network * ''The Club'' (Mexican TV series), a 2019 Mexican drama web television series * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Off-Broadway
An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive. These theatres are smaller than Broadway theatres, but larger than off-off-Broadway theatres, which seat fewer than 100. An "off-Broadway production" is a production of a play (theatre), play, musical theatre, musical, or revue that appears in such a venue and adheres to related trade union and other contracts. Some shows that premiere off-Broadway are subsequently produced on Broadway. History The term originally referred to any venue, and its productions, on a street intersecting Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway in Midtown Manhattan's Theater District, New York, Theater District, the hub of the American theatre industry. It later became defined by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers as a professional venue in Manhattan with a seating capacity of at least 100, but not more than 499, or a production that appears in such a venue and adhe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Tune, Directing Cloud 9 (cropped)
Tommy may refer to: People and fictional characters * Tommy (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Tommy Atkins, or just Tommy, a slang term for a common soldier in the British Army * Tommy Giacomelli (born 1974), Brazilian former footballer also known as simply Tommy Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Tommy'' (1931 film), a Soviet drama film * ''Tommy'' (1975 film), a British operetta film based on the Who's album ''Tommy'' * ''Tommy'' (2015 film), a Telugu drama film * ''Tommy'' (TV series), a 2020 American drama series Music * ''Tommy'' (The Who album), 1969 ** ''Tommy'' (London Symphony Orchestra album), 1972 ** ''Tommy'' (soundtrack), a soundtrack to the 1975 film ** ''The Who's Tommy'', a stage production, premiered 1992 * ''Tommy'' (The Wedding Present album), 1988 * ''Tommy'' (Dosh album), 2010 * ''Tommy'' (EP), a 2017 EP by Klein * ''Tommy'', a 2022 EP by Kiesza * ''Tommy'', a 1965 album by Tommy Adderley * ''Tommy'', a 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodman Theatre
Goodman Theatre is a professional theater company located in Chicago's Loop. A major part of the Chicago theatre scene, it is the city's oldest currently active nonprofit theater organization. Part of its present theater complex occupies the landmark Harris and Selwyn Theaters property. History The Goodman was founded in 1925 as a tribute to the Chicago playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, who died in the Great Influenza Pandemic in 1918. The theater was funded by Goodman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William O. Goodman, who donated $250,000 to the Art Institute of Chicago to establish a professional repertory company and a school of drama at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The first theater was designed by architect Howard Van Doren Shaw (in the location now occupied by the museum's Modern Wing), although its design was severely hampered by location restrictions resulting in poor acoustics and lack of space for scenery and effects. The opening ceremony on October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine (musical)
''Nine'' is a musical initiated by and with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Arthur Kopit. Based on the film '' 8½,'' it tells the story of film director Guido Contini, who is dreading his imminent 40th birthday and facing a midlife crisis, which is blocking his creative impulses and entangling him in a web of romantic difficulties in early-1960s Venice. Conceived and written and composed by Yeston as a class project in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in 1973, it was later adapted with a book by Mario Fratti, and then with another book by Arthur Kopit. The original Broadway production opened in 1982 and ran for 729 performances, starring Raul Julia. The musical won five Tony Awards (including Best Musical) and has enjoyed a number of revivals. A film adaptation was released in 2009. Plot Guido Contini, a famous Italian film director, has turned forty and faces double crises: he has to shoot a film for which he can't write the script, and hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maury Yeston
Maury Yeston (born October 23, 1945) is an American composer, lyricist and music theorist. Yeston has written the music and lyrics for several Broadway musicals and is also a classical orchestral and ballet composer. Among his Broadway musicals are '' Nine'' in 1982, '' Titanic'' in 1997, for both of which he won Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Score and was nominated for Grammy Awards, and '' Grand Hotel'' in 1989, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for best score and two Drama Desk Awards for his music and lyrics. He composed, in addition, the incidental music for the Broadway production of '' The Royal Family'' in 2009. He received a third Grammy nomination for the revival of ''Nine'' in 2004, which won a Tony Award for Best revival of a musical. He also was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for two of his new songs in the film version of ''Nine'' ('' Take It All'' and '' Cinema Italiano''). His musical version of the novel '' The Phantom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas
''The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas'' is a musical with a book by Texas author Larry L. King and Peter Masterson and music and lyrics by Carol Hall. It is based on a story by King that was inspired by the real-life Chicken Ranch in La Grange, Texas. Production history ''The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas'' opened off-Broadway at the Entermedia Theatre on April 17, 1978. It reopened on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre on June 19, 1978, and ran for 1,584 performances until March 27, 1982. The production was directed by Peter Masterson and Tommy Tune and choreographed by Tune and Thommie Walsh. The opening cast included Carlin Glynn, Henderson Forsythe, Jay Garner, Joan Ellis, Delores Hall, and Pamela Blair. Glynn was replaced by Fannie Flagg and Anita Morris later in the run. Alexis Smith starred as Miss Mona in the first U.S. National Tour, from September 1979 through February 1981, with stops in major cities from Boston to Los Angeles. The Sydney production o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Redgrave
Lynn Rachel Redgrave (8 March 1943 – 2 May 2010) was a British and American actress. During a career that spanned five decades, she won two Golden Globe Awards and was nominated for two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Tony Awards, and a Grammy Award. A member of the Redgrave family of actors, Lynn trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962. By the mid-1960s, she had appeared in several films, including '' Tom Jones'' (1963) and '' Georgy Girl'' (1966), which won her a New York Film Critics Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy, as well as earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Redgrave made her Broadway debut in 1967 and performed in several stage productions in New York City while making frequent returns to London's West End. Redgrave performed with her sister Vanessa in '' Three Sisters'' in London and in the title role of B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch; March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, singer, filmmaker and humanitarian, with a career spanning seven decades in film, stage, television and radio. Famously nicknamed as "The King of Comedy", he is regarded as one of the greatest comedians of the 20th century. His fame rose to prominence together with singer Dean Martin, billed as Martin and Lewis, in 1946 and for ten years, the two did a series of sixteen buddy-comedy films, along with The Colgate Comedy Hour, their televised run on ''The Colgate Comedy Hour'', live stage performances, guest spots on other shows and a The Martin and Lewis Show, radio series. After the team's split in 1956, Lewis became a highly popular solo movie star in twenty-nine motion pictures from 1957 to 1972, including the critically acclaimed smash hit ''The Nutty Professor (1963 film), The Nutty Professor'' (1963). For television, he hosted ''The Jerry Lewis Show'' (both the Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
