Jo sullivan loesser biography of abraham
•
Deaths in April
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following is a list of notable deaths in April .
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
April
[edit]1
[edit]- Dixie Allen, 84, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (–).[1]
- Enrique Álvarez Conde, 67, Spanish academic (King Juan Carlos University), lung cancer.[2]
- Giacomo Battaglia, 54, Italian comedian, complications from a stroke.[3]
- Thomas N. Burnette, 74, American lieutenant general.[4]
- Bill Butchart, 85, Australian Olympic middle-distance runner.[5]
- Sardar Fateh Buzdar, 79–80, Pakistani politician, member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab (–, –).[6]
- Caravelli, 88,
•
Identified only as Damon in the Playbill, he's played by Raymond Del Barrio as a broad-brimmed boulevardier who swims with the Manhattan local color that he'll immortalize in short stories.
He's everywhere, starting with a blank piece of paper on which he types "Broadway Stories By: Damon Runyon." Then he goes among them to collect his material, milling with the decidedly idiosyncratic hoi polloi for inspiration. He's there on the sidelines for the big crapshoot in the subterranean sewer system. He's there, stowed away on that water taxi to Cuba. He's there counting the heads of sinners who honor their markers by making personal appearances at a Save-A-Soul Mission meeting.
As a way of saying his world and welcome to it, director Des McAnuff and choreographer Sergio Trujillo — the Jersey Boys duo — have re-invented and splashed high, wide and handsome the spectacular opening number known as "Runyonland," run ragged with dazzling wall-size projections and eye-popping ne
•
Jo Sullivan Loesser, Original Rosabella in Most Happy Fella, Dies at 91
Jo Sullivan Loesser, the original Rosabella in The Most Happy Fella and the widow of the show's composer, died Sunday, April 28, at the age of The cause was heart failure.
Born and raised in Mounds City, Illinois, Sullivan made her Broadway debut in Sleepy Hollow in , followed by appearances in As the Girls Go and Let's Make an Opera. She received her big break when she created the role of Polly Peachum in Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera at the Theatre De Lys in
After Threepenny, Sullivan landed the role of Rosabella in The Most Happy Fella () and earned a Tony nomination for her performance. Sixty years ago today, April 29, , Sullivan married the show's creator, Frank Loesser, and they were together until his death a decade later.
Before and after The Most Happy Fella, she appeared in the City Center revivals of Carousel, Wonderful Town with Nanc