Tag: Wildcat
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The ‘Wildcat’ Episode, or, Did Broadway Love Lucy?
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HUMILIATED & UNHAPPY
July 16, 1960 TV Guide ~ July 16-22, 1960 (Vol.8, No.29 & Issue #381) Cover photo by Sherm Weisberg, Fashions by Sacks Fifth Avenue This was Lucille Ball’s tenth (of 39) TV Guide covers. “A VISIT WITH LUCILLE BALL” by Dan Jenkins On January 19, 1953, Desi Arnaz rushed exultantly into the Hollywood Brown Derby,…
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RIP HUGH DOWNS
1921-2020 Hugh Downs was born on February 14, 1921 in Akron, Ohio. A regular television presence from the mid-1940s through to the end of the 1990s, for several years he held the certified Guinness World Record for the most hours on commercial network television, before being surpassed by Regis Philbin. Downs served as announcer/sidekick for “Tonight…
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LUCILLE BALL: A Life on TV
1949-1989 Lucille Ball performed in nearly every aspect of show business, but television was the medium on which she left her mark. From the late 1940s until her death on April 26, 1989, Lucille Ball lit up television screens worldwide with her talent. Below I’ve selected one program from each calendar year she was on…
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RIP Terrence McNally
1938-2020 Described as “the bard of American theater” playwright Terrence McNally was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1996. He received the 2019 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011, and the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2018, he was inducted into the American Academy…
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Playbill Vault’s Today in Theatre History: December 16 | Playbill
Hey Look Me Over! This day (December 16th) in 1960 Lucy finally played Broadway! Playbill Vault’s Today in Theatre History: December 16 | Playbill
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RIP Valerie Harper
1939-2019 Valerie Harper’s first appearance with Lucille Ball was not on television, but in Broadway’s WILDCAT (1960) as a member of the ensemble (right). Valerie Harper won an Emmy Award in 1971 for playing Rhoda Morgenstern on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” Her co-star, Edward Asner, also won that night. Lucille Ball was in attendance because “Here’s…
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RIP SID RAMIN (1919-2019) ~ Composer, Arranger, and Orchestrator who (with Robert Ginzler) arranged and orchestrated the Cy Coleman score for the 1960 Broadway musical WILDCAT starring Lucille Ball. The score includes what became Lucille Ball’s signature song, “Hey, Look Me Over!”
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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…