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DIED. VICTOR BORGE, 91, hammy pianist and conductor whose one-man Broadway show, Comedy in Music, ran a record 849 performances; in Greenwich, Conn. Borge originally trained as a concert pianist in his native Denmark, but eventually began incorporating satire and sight gags into his act. A Jew, he fled Europe to escape the Nazis, arriving in the U.S. speaking no English but ultimately perfecting his act to gain worldwide acclaim...
...first Broadway play I saw was Long Day's Journey into Night. At the time I was planning on becoming an artist, and I was pretty green to the theater. JASON ROBARDS' performance was powerful and raw, and his naturalistic style stuck in my mind. I ended up at the same acting school he had attended, and in 1960 we did a TV movie of the play that had made him famous, Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh. We hit it off right off the bat, and he was extremely generous to me. In the play, when his character...
Gwen Verdon 75 Broadway hoofer high-kicked her way to four Tonys...
...that its cartoon format, melancholy jazz score by Vincent Guaraldi and simple retelling of the Nativity story from the Gospel of Luke would alienate the public. That same night, a musical, "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown," was playing to sold-out houses in its second season on Broadway; and a feature-length animated film, "A Boy Named Charlie Brown," was setting attendance records at Radio City Music Hall; every few hours, 6,000 more parents and children would form a vast line outside the "showplace of the nation." More than 150 million readers were following the daily...
...Number of years the musical Cats ran on Broadway before closing this year...