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Ossie Davis, Groundbreaking Playwright-Actor Who Created Purlie ...  Feb 4, 2005 ... Tony Award-nominated actor-writer Ossie Davis, an icon of 20th ... From Top: Ossie Davis; Davis in the original Broadway production of ... Mr. Davis, and his wife Ruby Dee, are American treasures and his death is a great loss to us all. ... the Sun, and starred in his own 1961 play, Purlie Victorious, a sort of...
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Ruby Dee - Actress, Screenwriter, Civil Rights Activist, Poet ...  Jun 15, 2014 ... Ruby Dee starred in the 1961 film A Raisin in the Sun, and is ... The couple married two years later and eventually had three ... a starring role on Broadway in Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in ... Davis wrote this southern comedy and he and Dee co-starred in it together. ... Author. Biography.com Editors...
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Ossie Davis - Wikipedia  Ossie Davis was an American film, television and Broadway actor, director, poet, playwright, author, and civil rights activist. He was married to Ruby Dee, with whom he frequently performed, until his ... When he found it necessary to play a Pullman porter or a butler, he played those characters .... Purlie Victorious. New York:...
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Ossie Davis Biography - life, family, children, story, wife, school ...  World Biography  Co-Da; Ossie Davis Biography ... After the war he returned to the stage, playing his first Broadway role in Jeb (1946). ... They starred in Davis's own play Purlie Victorious (1961) and in the movie based on it, Gone ... Director and writer ... In January 1999 Davis and his wife Ruby Dee celebrated fifty years of...
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Ossie Davis facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  At age 28, Davis won the lead role and made his Broadway debut. ... The two became close and took roles with the touring company of Anna Lucasta. .... the screen, and his play Purlie Victorious returned to Broadway as the musical smash Purlie. ... The work of Ossie Davis and his wife Ruby Dee consistently "explored and...
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Between East and West: An Interview with David Henry Hwang | The ...  Oct 28, 2011 ... David Henry Hwang's new Broadway play, Chinglish, begins with an ... on a true story about a French diplomat who fell in love with a Peking Opera star, ... in 1998 for his second play on Broadway, Golden Child, which is inspired by ... to be in romantic love with your partner throughout the whole marriage.
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Free Flashcards about J Movies and TV - StudyStack  She was married to Al Jolson when she starred in those classic 1930s Busby Berkeley musicals, Ruby Keeler. This show spun off from Diff'rent Strokes as in You...
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THEATER REVIEW - Little Laughter in "Heidi Chronicles" - NYTimes ...  Apr 12, 1992 ... "THE HEIDI CHRONICLES," the play by Wendy Wasserstein that won both the 1989 Pulitzer Prize and Broadway's Tony Award, is at the Studio ... lighthearted moments in this version of the life and times of the title character. The story covers the highlights in the life of a young woman named Heidi Holland.
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Paul Bettany: My wife Jennifer Connelly's won an Oscar, but she still ...  Sep 30, 2011 ... My wife's won an Oscar, but she still loves to play Twister in her pyjamas! ... Happily married: Paul and his wife Jennifer Connelly, who married on New ..... 'I need a man who can act like a man': Perrie Edwards hits out at...
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David Auburn Speaks! Proof Playwright Surprised by Pulitzer Win ...  Apr 18, 2001 ... Playwright David Auburn, an hour after learning his Broadway play, Proof, won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, admitted his was. ... Director Daniel Sullivan's staging starring Mary-Louise Parker has made its investment...
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Tony Awards | Shari on the Aisle  Jun 13, 2016 ... Posts about Tony Awards written by Shari Lifland. ... at the performance I saw, in for the Tony-nominated, Oscar-winning .... Choreography: Denis Jones .... McDonald won a record-setting sixth Tony Award (for Best Actress in a Play) ..... A musical version of the play, Raisin, premiered on Broadway in 1973.
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Tapeworthy: Epic Edna - Show Boat & Giant - Musical Reviews  Dec 7, 2009 ... Music by Jerome Kern, Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, ... by Hal Prince that included Broadway legend Elaine Stritch as Parthy. ... a show sometimes work (see Broadway's current Ragtime revival, ... And yet again, I felt captivated into the story of Captain Andy and his .... The Good Wife (CBS); 4.
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Wendy Wasserstein, 1950-2006: Playwright won Tony for 'Heidi ...  Jan 30, 2006 ... Both "The Heidi Chronicles" and "The Sisters Rosensweig" got their start at the ... While primarily a playwright, Wasserstein also wrote for TV and the movies, ... of the best-selling children's book "Pamela's First Musical" (1996).
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Newer posts - Shari on the Aisle - WordPress.com  Mar 28, 2015 ... Simply put, The Heidi Chronicles is an important play. ... Three years later, she meets arrogant magazine editor Scoop ... Wasserstein (the first woman playwright to win a Tony) did just that, in The Heidi Chronicles and her other work. ... Isn't It Romantic, and An American Daughter, passed away in 2006 of...
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THEATER - Music? Lyrics? He Can Get Them for You - NYTimes.com  Mar 3, 1991 ... His Broadway credits include (and just listing them seems to conjure up those ... was an adaptation by Jerome Weidman of his novel about the garment ... The musical ran for 301 performances, was directed by Arthur ... "Miss Marmelstein," it launched the stardom of Barbra Streisand. ... Broadway  Plays
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Oprah comes full circle - Dateline NBC | NBC News  May 21, 2006 ... ... Broadway just a few months ago escorted by David Letterman after appearing on his show. ... She's now producing the musical version of the story on Broadway. ... The book, by Alice Walker, tells the story of Celie, a poor, black child in the rural South, ... I used to walk home from work with a backpack.
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Amazon.com: Shiksa Goddess: (Or, How I Spent My Forties ...  ... received both a Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 for The Heidi Chronicles. She died of lymphoma on January 30, 2006 at age 55. The following night Broadway's lights were dimmed in her honor. ..... Wonderful story. Makes me sad I did not get to know Wendy while she was alive.
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2016 Tony Awards Live Blog Winners List (VIDEOS) - Mjsbigblog.com  Jun 12, 2016 ... Eventually, he introduces all the musical acting nominees who take the ... The cast of Fiddler on the Roof are outside singing songs from ... He's making his Broadway debut this fall, by the way. ... are in front of the theater singing Circle of Life from The Lion King. .... Geneva Pine is about to win her Tony!!!
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Oscars Flashback: A Look Back at the Nine Actors Who Have Won ...  Feb 20, 2015 ... With the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac, Ferrer won the Tony Award for Best ... he won awards for the same role on the stage and screen, his Tony was ... She received TONY AWARDS for her first two Broadway shows and a...
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Jeopary Questions page 1969 - STAMPS - TriviaBistro.com  THEATRE: Mercedes Ruehl played the lusty Serafina Delle Rose in the 1995 revival of his play "The Rose Tattoo"  FLAGS: The 11 stripes on this African...
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Free Flashcards about PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS - StudyStack  HIS NOVEL ABOUT THE EARLY YEARS OF THE WITCHES OF OZ INSPIRED "WICKED" .... AS THE WITCH, PHYLICIA RASHAD WENT "INTO THE WOODS" ON BROADWAY TO SING THIS COMPOSER'S DITTIES, STEPHEN SONDHEIM.