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GIVE 'EM THE OLD RAZZLE DAZZLE
(1998 all rights reserved worldwide by Clair Sedore)
National Library of Canada ISSN 1481-7934
MAY 1999 (Volume 6) (C) 1998,Clair Sedore, Editor
Peter Poullos, Assistant Editor
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IN THIS ISSUE
OBITUARIES; IRVING BERLIN; JO MIELZINER; GEORGE BALANCHINE; MICHAEL
BENNETT; ROBERT ANDERSON; HELEN HAYES THEATRE; MARY MARTIN; NABUCCO; JED
HARRIS;
COMING IN THE JUNE ISSUE
A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR-CLAIR SEDORE; JERRY BOCK AND SHELDON HARNICK;
RAOUL PENE DU BOIS; GOWER CHAMPION; GENE SAKS; SIR NOEL COWARD; ZIEGFELD
THEATRE; GERALDINE PAGE; RICHARD WAGNER;

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will be forever remembered as Agnes Gooch of Auntie Mame, and her
appearance in Thurber Carnival, Sir Harry Sommers, musician/composer
husband of Barbara Chilcott (sister of the famous Donald and Murray Davis
of the Crest Theatre days; Ann Corio, one of the leading burlesque queens
of her day, at 85 years of age. She brought her show "This is Burlesque,"
to the Royal Alexandra sever al times, with a number of burlesque
headliners , the brilliant Garson Kanin, playwright and director, married
to Ruth Gordon, with whom he wrote, and after her death in 1985, married to
actress Marian Seldes in 1990, at the age of 76. Mr. Kanin will be forever
remembered for Born Yesterday with Judy Holliday, directing Diary of Anne
Frank, Do Re Mi with Phil Silvers, and Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand. He
also directed many films and wrote Adam's Rib, The Marrying Kind and Pat
and Mike, It Should Happen to You, The Girl Can't Help It, The Rat Race,
and The Right Approach, Gratien Gelinas, one of Canada's great theatre
personalities, whom I had the privilege of seeing in Yesterday the Children
Were Dancing. He was married to actress Huguette Oligny. Composer Ernest
Gold whose scores graced such films as Too Much Too Soon, On the Beach,
Exodus (Academy Award), Inherit the Wind, Judgment at Nuremberg, A Child is
Waiting, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Ship of Fools, and many, many more.
Lionel Bart, English lyricist and composer of Oliver, Fings Aint What They
Used To Be, and Maggie May. He put English musicals back on the map with
Oliver, at a time when the British musical was near extinct. It is said
that Mr. Bart could not read music. Film Actor Michael Caine, of a heart
attack, probably best remembered for Alfie, The Ipcress File,Sleuth,
California Suite (my personal favourite in the scene with Maggie Smith),
Educating Rita and Hannah and Her Sisters. They will all be sadly missed.

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emigrating to America while a boy, Irving took jobs as singing waiters, and
began composing songs. In 1911 he won gre at recognition for Alexander's
Ragtime Band, followed by complete scores for Watch Your Step (14); Stop
Look and Listen (15); Century Girl (16); Cohan Revue of 1918; Yip Yip
Yaphank (18) which featured Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning and
Mandy; Zie g feld Follies of 1919. In 1921 he built the Music Box Theatre
and started his own series of revues; others were the Marx Brothers, The
Cocoanuts (25); Ziegfeld Follies of 1927; Face the Music (32); As Thousands
Cheer (33); Louisiana Purchase (40); This is the Army (42); Annie Get Your
Gun with the legendary Ethel Merman (46), which was his biggest hit show;
Miss Liberty (49); Call Me Madam again with Ms. Merman (50); Mr President,
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York. His first play," Tea and Sympathy" (53)was a masterpiece and ran for
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saw Follies that said they did, it would still be running) ; Seesaw (73);
and after a lot of research did his masterpiece, "A Chorus Line (73),"
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the leading set designer of his era. After working as actor and stage
manager for the Theatre Guild, he created their sets for The Guardsman,
starring Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne (24), followed by 400 stage sets. A
listing of his work would include almost every major play and musical from
a period of 50 years - Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude (28); Street
Scene (29); Of Thee I Sing (31); Somerset Maughan's Winterset (35); George
Abbott's On Your Toes (36); Abe Lincoln in Illinois (38); Pal Joey (40);
Tennessee William's Glass Menagerie (45); Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your
Gun (46); William's Streetcar Named Desire (47); Mister Roberts (48);
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (49); Rodger and Hammerstein's South
Pacific (49); Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls (50); Rodger and Hammerstein's
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Your Toes; Babes in Arms (37); I Married an Angel (38); Boys From Syracuse
(38); Louisiana Purchase (40); Cabin in the Sky (40); Song of Norway (44);
Chocolate Soldier (47); Where's Charley (48). In 1942 he staged an elephant
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