1979 Playbill ; Joel Grey, Ron Holgate, Tina Paul; The Grand Tour / Jerry Herman

Description: 1979 Playbill (Palace Theatre, New York, N.Y.) Joel Grey, Ron Holgate, Florence Lacey, Stephen Vinovich, Mark Waldrop, Jay Stuart, Tina Paul et al in the musical The Grand Tour (Book by Michael Stewart & Mark Bramble ; Music & lyrics by Jerry Herman ; Directed by Gerald Freedman ; Choreographed by Donald Saddler) ; Program is in Excellent condition 66 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm ; New York, NY : American Theatre Press, Inc., February 1979. ... based on the play Jacobowsky and the Colonel by Franz Werfel and its American adaptation by S.N. Behrman Cast: Joel Grey, Lynne Charnay, Jack Karcher, Mark Waldrop, Ron Holgate, Stephen Vinovich, William James, George Reinholt, Chevi Colton, Florence Lacey, Gene Varrone, Travis Hudson, Kenneth Kantor, Jay Pierce, Jay Stuart, Jo Speros, Michelle Marshall, Bob Morrisey, Bronna Lipton, Bjarne Buchtrup, Carol Dorian, Debra Lyman, Tina Paul (Dance Captain), Linda Poser, Theresa Rakov, Paul Solen, Mark Waldrop, Jeff Veazey, Bonnie Young. Standby for Joel Grey: Charles Abbott. Produced by James M. Nederlander, Diana Shumlin and Jack Schlissel; Produced in association with Carole J. Shorenstein and Stewart F. Lane ... Musical Director: Wally Harper; Music orchestrated by Philip J. Lang; Dance arrangements by Peter Howard; Vocal arrangements by Donald Pippin; Directed by Gerald Freedman; Choreographed by Donald Saddler; Assistant Choreographer: Mercedes EllingtonScenic Design by Ming Cho Lee; Costume Design by Theoni V. Aldredge; Lighting Design by Martin Aronstein; Hair Design and makeup by Vincenzo Prestia ...Articles in the program include: "Lucie's Song: an interview with Lucie Arnaz ... " (star of the new musical They're Playing Our Song (Neil Simon/Marvin Hamlisch) and the daughter of Lucille Ball] by Sylvie Drake ; "Shooting Stars: show and tell with Martha Swope, theatre's most prominent photographer" by Tobi Tobias ; "'Finally A Hit' : how Camelot became an overnight success three months after its opening" by Alan Jay Lerner ; "Dressing Up the Theatres: Interior designer Melanie Kahane talks about renovating the Shubert theatres" by Maria Thompson ; "Constance Cummings: the star of Wings--her special image" by Barbara Gerard. Joel Grey bio:"Joel Grey (born Joel David Katz; April 11, 1932) is an American actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographer. He is best known for portraying the Master of Ceremonies in the Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret on Broadway as well as in the 1972 film adaptation. He has won an Academy Award, a Tony Award, two Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.He also originated the role of George M. Cohan in the musical George M! in 1968 and the Wizard of Oz in the musical Wicked. He also starred as Moonface Martin and Amos Hart in the Broadway revivals of Anything Goes and Chicago, respectively.Grey was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Goldie "Grace" (née Epstein) and Mickey Katz, a Jewish actor, comedian, and musician. He attended Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, California.He started his career in the Cleveland Play House's Curtain Pullers children's theatre program in the early 1940s, appearing in productions such as Grandmother Slyboots, Jack of Tarts and a lead role in their mainstage production of On Borrowed Time.[5][6] By 1952, at age 20, he was appearing as a featured performer at the Copacabana nightclub in New York.In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Grey appeared in several TV westerns including Maverick (1959), Bronco (1960) and Lawman (3 times in 1960 and 1961).Grey originated the role of the Master of Ceremonies in the Broadway musical Cabaret in 1966 for which he won a Tony Award. Additional Broadway credits include Come Blow Your Horn (1961), Stop the World - I Want to Get Off (1962), Half a Sixpence (1965), George M! (1968), Goodtime Charley (1975), The Grand Tour (1979), Chicago (1996), Wicked (2003), and Anything Goes (2011). In November 1995, he performed as the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True a staged concert of the popular story at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund. The performance was originally broadcast on Turner Network Television (TNT) in November 1995, and released on CD and video in 1996.Grey won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in March 1973 for his performance as the Master of Ceremonies in the 1972 film version of Cabaret.[9] His victory was part of a Cabaret near-sweep, which saw Liza Minnelli win Best Actress and Bob Fosse win Best Director, although it lost the Best Picture Oscar to The Godfather. For that role, Grey also won a BAFTA award for "The Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles" and Best Supporting Actor awards from the Golden Globes, Kansas City Film Critics Circle, National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, National Society of Film Critics, and a Tony Award for his original stage performance six years prior, making him one of only ten people who have won both a Tony Award and an Academy Award for the same role.He has performed at The Muny in St. Louis, Missouri, in roles such as George M. Cohan in George M! (1970 and 1992),[12] the Emcee in Cabaret (1971), and Joey Evans in Pal Joey (1983). At the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Grey played the title role in their production of Platonov (1977).Grey appeared as a panelist for the television game show What's My Line? in the 1967 season, as well as being the first Mystery Guest during its syndication in 1968. He was the guest star for the fifth episode of The Muppet Show in its first season in 1976, singing "Razzle Dazzle" from Chicago and "Willkommen" from Cabaret. He also played Master of Sinanju Chiun, Remo's elderly Korean martial arts master in the movie Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985), a role that garnered him a Saturn Award and a second Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Chiun's character was popular for the lines "Meat of cow kills", and "You move like a pregnant yak", from the movie. In 1991, he played Adam, a devil, in the final episode of the television series Dallas (1991). That same year, Grey also appeared in the American Repertory Theatre's production of When We Dead Awaken at the Sao Paulo Biennale. In 1993 he starred in New York Stage & Film's production of John Patrick Shanley's A Fool and Her Fortune and received an "Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series" Emmy nomination for his recurring role as Jacob Prossman on the television series Brooklyn Bridge. In 1995, he made a guest appearance on Star Trek: Voyager as an aging rebel seeking to free his (deceased) wife from prison. In 1999, he starred in Brian Friel's Give Me Your Answer, Do! mounted by Roundabout Theatre Company.In 2000, Grey played Oldrich Novy in the film Dancer in the Dark and had recurring television roles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (as the evil reptilian demon Doc, 2001), Oz (as Lemuel Idzik, 2003) and Alias (as "Another Mr. Sloane", 2005). He played a wealthy, paroled ex-convict on Law & Order: Criminal Intent (episode "Cuba Libre", 2003). Grey also originated the role of the Wizard of Oz in the hit Broadway musical Wicked. He also appeared on the shows House and Brothers & Sisters (2007), on the latter of which he played the role of Dr. Bar-Shalom, Sarah and Joe's marriage counselor. He appeared as Izzie's high school teacher who needs treatment for dementia in Grey's Anatomy (2009).Grey returned to Broadway in spring 2011 as Moonface Martin in the Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Anything Goes at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. He also played Ned in the 1985 Off-Broadway production of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, and went on to co-direct the Tony Award-winning revival in 2011" Jerry Herman bio:"American songwriter Jerry Herman (b. July 10, 1931) is the first composer-plus-lyricist in history to have written three musicals that scored over 1,500 performances on their initial Broadway runs: Hello, Dolly! had 2,844, Mame 1,508, and La Cage aux Folles 1,761. (Stephen Schwartz matched this record in 2007.) Creator of ten Broadway shows ..., and contributor to two more, Herman has been nominated for Tony Awards in multiple categories five times, and won two for Best Musical (Hello, Dolly! 1964 and La Cage aux Folles 1983).Growing up in Jersey City, by the age of six Jerry Herman was playing the piano under the tutelage of his mother, a piano teacher, and already taking in Broadway shows. His father was a gym teacher and, in the summer, a head counselor at a camp in the Berkshire Mountains. Every summer until he was twenty-three Jerry worked on musical productions at the camp, directing Oklahoma!, Finian’s Rainbow and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn before he was out of his teens. After high school he entered the Parsons School of Design, but persuaded by composer Frank Loesser that he should not stop writing songs, he transferred to the University of Miami and its strong theatre department. After graduation from Miami he moved to New York to play the piano in clubs, write songs, and work on his own off-Broadway revue, I Feel Wonderful (1954) ... He then contributed several songs to a successful revue, Nightcap (1958), which ran for two years at The Showplace, and more to Madame Aphrodite and From A to Z (on Broadway) ... Herman’s first full-fledged Broadway musical, Milk and Honey (1961, “Shalom”) ... ran for 543 performances and received four Tony Award nominations. His next project was to be the greatest triumph of Herman’s life, Hello, Dolly! (1964). Based on Thornton Wilder’s long-running comedy The Matchmaker, with songs like “Before the Parade Passes By,” “It Only Takes a Moment,” “It Takes a Woman,” “Put on Your Sunday Clothes,” and “Elegance,” and starring Carol Channing, the show broke the Broadway box-office records and ran for nearly seven years .... won ten Tony Awards, a feat that remained unmatched until 2001 (with Mel Brooks’s The Producers). Its title number, already a popular Louis Armstrong hit even before the show opened, won a Grammy .... another smash hit two years later with Mame, starring Angela Lansbury (“If He Walked Into My Life,” “We Need a Little Christmas,” “Bosom Buddies”) .... shows followed – Dear World in 1969 (again starring Lansbury), Mack & Mabel in 1974 (Robert Preston and Bernadette Peters), and The Grand Tour in 1979 (Joel Grey) ... 1983 and La Cage aux Folles for Jerry Herman’s third super-hit. La Cage (“I Am What I Am,” “The Best of Times”) won eight Tony Awards and ran for over four years. Herman was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1982, and was honored with the Johnny Mercer Award in 1987 ... a two-hour musical for CBS television in 1996, Mrs. Santa Claus, starring Angela Lansbury. Since that time he has been honored, not just with “lifetime achievement” awards (Hollywood Press Club 1996, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a theatre named for him at the University of Miami) ... 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