Tag: Alvin Theatre
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WILDCAT
December 17, 1960 Wildcat is a musical comedy about Wildcat Jackson and her sister who come to oil country in 1912 to strike it rich. She runs into the prowess of Joe Dynamite, and a battle of the sexes and the oil tycoons ensues. Wildcat wasn’t written with the 48 year-old queen of comedy in…
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LUCY, JOE & ALVIN, TOO!
Lucille Ball always wanted to be a star on Broadway – until the silver screen and the small screen claimed her for posterity. Using the stage name Diane Belmont, she was chosen to appear in Earl Carroll’s Vanities, for the third road company of Ziegfeld’s Rio Rita, and for Step Lively, but none of these…
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LUCY is BACK ON BROADWAY!
As a character in the new Broadway musical The Cher Show! According to The Hollywood Reporter: “Among the show’s nuttier moments is an encounter with Lucille Ball, when Cher is concerned about how the American public will react to her separation from Sonny Bono (Jarrod Spector) after he has worked her to exhaustion and shafted…
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CAROL + 2
March 22, 1966 Directed by Marc Breaux Written by Nat Hiken and Charles Sherman CAST Carol Burnett (Herself) got her first big break on “The Paul Winchell Show” in 1955. A years later she was a regular on “The Garry Moore Show.” In 1959 she made her Broadway debut in Once Upon a Mattress, which…