By Ligia Fernandez
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October 2006
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Dorothy Loudon as Miss Hannigan
in ANNIE
Source: broadway.com
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Dorothy Loudon
(1949 - 2004)
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Dorothy Loudon was one of those special entertainers with a
knack for making every performance count in an audience's mind. She made
her professional stage debut in the '62 Hunterdon Hills Playhouse production
of THE WORLD OF JULES FEIFFER directed by Mike Nichols with songs by Stephen
Sondheim., performing Sondheim's Truly Content. Her Broadway debut
came later that year in a flop musical with a rather ironic title NOWHERE TO
GO BUT UP. In 1969, she won her first Tony Award for another flop musical,
THE FIG LEAVES ARE FALLING.
Broadway stardom finally arrived in 1977 when she was cast as nasty
orphanage director Miss Hannigan in the smash musical ANNIE, winning both
the Tony and Drama Desk awards for her work.
In the 80s, she replaced Angela Lansbury in SWEENEY TODD and starred in
Michael Bennett's BALLROOM (which won her a third and final Best Actress in
a Musical Tony). Her last Broadway musical was the Jerry Herman revue,
JERRY'S GIRLS, in 1985.
Other work includes the 1979 TV series DOROTHY and two well-received
recordings, SALOON and BROADWAY BABY. |
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Source:
MSN Entertainment
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Jason Alexander
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Long before achieving sitcom immortality as George Costanza
in SEINFELD Jason Alexander made his Broadway musical debut in the 1981
playing Joe in Sondheim's MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG. He also had multiple roles
in Kander & Ebb's THE RINK starring Liza Minnelli & Chita Rivera. His only
other Broadway musical performance to date - JEROME ROBBINS BROADWAY - won
him the Tony in 1989. He once remarked that one of his friends' favorite
games is to "find Jason" in the montage of photos on the ROBBINS cast
poster.
He also starred as Max Bialystock in the Los Angeles production of THE
PRODUCERS opposite Martin Short as Leo.
Two notable TV musical performances are Albert in BYE BYE BIRDIE with
Vanessa Williams ('95) and Lionel in the '97 remake of Rodgers &
Hammerstein's CINDERELLA starring Brandy and Bernadette Peters. |
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