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Walter Willison
Walter Willison (born June 24, 1947) is an American stage actor. Career He starred on Broadway in '' Norman, Is That You?'', ''Two By Two'', ''Pippin ''(as Pippin), ''Wild and Wonderful'', ''Grand Hotel'', '' A Christmas Carol'' at Madison Square Garden, and as The Celebrant in Leonard Bernstein's ''Mass'' at The Kennedy Center. Willison has starred in regional productions of '' Carousel'' '' Carnival!'', '' Two By Two'', ''Oklahoma!'', '' South Pacific'', '' Fiddler on the Roof'', ''On a Clear Day You Can See Forever'', ''Your Own Thing'', and as El Gallo in the First International Tour of ''The Fantasticks'' in Japan. Willison has also performed on television, on the NBC soap opera '' Days of Our Lives'' and he starred in the 1976 NBC Saturday morning family sitcom, ''McDuff, the Talking Dog''. His films include '' Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women'', ''Harry and Walter Go To New York'', ''Fantasies'', and with an All Star cast of theatrical legends in Rick McKay's (film) " ...
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Monterey Park, California
Monterey Park is a city located in the western San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States, approximately from the Downtown Los Angeles civic center. The city's motto is "Pride in the past, Faith in the future". Monterey Park is part of a cluster of cities (Alhambra, Arcadia, Temple City, Rosemead, San Marino, and San Gabriel in the west San Gabriel Valley) with a growing Asian American population. According to the 2010 Census, the city had a total population of 60,269. Monterey Park has consistently ranked as one of the country's best places to live due to its good schools, growing economy, and central location. Monterey Park is bordered by Alhambra, Los Angeles, Montebello, and Rosemead. History Early history For at least seven thousand years the land was populated by the Tongva ( Gabrielino) Native Americans. The Tongva lived in dome like structures with thatched exteriors, an open smoke hole for ventilation and light at the top. Both sex ...
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Your Own Thing
''Your Own Thing'' is a rock-styled musical comedy loosely based on ''Twelfth Night'' by William Shakespeare. It premiered off-Broadway in early 1968. The music and lyrics are by Hal Hester and Danny Apolinar Lambert, Bruc"Hal Hester, 63; Helped to Write A Rock Musical"''New York Times'', September 24, 1992 with the book adaptation by Donald Driver, who also directed the original production. Dorothy Love was the show's producer. The show was a success, running for 937 performances Off-Broadway and then touring and playing in London and Australia. Synopsis The show is set in the present (late 1960s) in the land of Illyria, which looks very much like New York City. It is a tale of separated twins, mistaken identities, love triangles and "doing your own thing". It opens when a raging storm wrecks the ship on which a rock duet is traveling. They are "identical" twenty-year-old twins, Viola and Sebastian. Even in this life-threatening situation, they are bickering as usual (No One's Per ...
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54 Below
54 Below is a cabaret and restaurant in the basement of Studio 54 in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Owned by Broadway producers Steve Baruch, Richard Frankel, Marc Routh and Tom Viertel, 54 Below has hosted shows by such performers as Patti LuPone, Ben Vereen, Sierra Boggess, Lea Salonga, Marilyn Maye, Luann de Lesseps and Barbara Cook. History 54 Below opened on June 3, 2012, as 54 Below. Its designers include architect Richard H. Lewis, set designer John Lee Beatty, lighting designer Ken Billington, and sound designer Peter Hylenski. Scott Wittman also serves as Creative Consultant. Jennifer Ashley Tepper serves as the Director of Programming at 54 Below. 54 Below features a variety of musical artists and styles, including musical theatre, opera, and jazz, the last of which was featured in a series co-produced with WBGO. In September 2015, 54 Below announced a creative alliance with performer and singer, pianist, and music revivalist Michael Feinstein, becoming ...
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Liliane Montevecchi
Liliane Montevecchi (October 13, 1932 – June 29, 2018) was a French-Italian actress, dancer, and singer. Career Montevecchi took her first dance classes at 8 with Pierre Duprez, primo ballerino of the Opera in Paris, France. She entered the Conservatoire and completed her training of two years, with Jeanne Schwarz and Mathilde Kschessinska, on the stage of the Opéra Comique. She appeared for the first time on a stage at the Champs Elysées theater in a ballet by David Lichine. She then worked with Léonide Massine and danced in Monte Carlo for the coronation of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco in 1949. She also danced her first steps at the Casino de Paris with Jean Guélis. Montevecchi began her international career as a prima ballerina in Roland Petit's dance company. She appeared in '' The Glass Slipper'' with Michael Wilding and '' Daddy Long Legs'' (with Fred Astaire), in both of which she was acting with leading lady Leslie Caron. In the mid-1950s, she was signed to a ...
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The 25th Anniversary Reunion Concert
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Cindy Williams
Cynthia Jane Williams (born August 22, 1947) is an American actress and producer, known for her role as Shirley Feeney on the television sitcom ''Happy Days'' (1975–1979), and ''Laverne & Shirley'' (1976–1982). Early life Williams was born in the Van Nuys district of Los Angeles, California, on August 22, 1947. The family moved to Dallas, Texas when she was a year old and returned to Los Angeles when she was ten years old. She has one sibling, a sister named Carol Ann. Williams wrote and acted during childhood at a church and later acted at Birmingham High School, graduating in 1965. She attended Los Angeles City College with a theater major. Career After college, Williams began her professional career by landing national commercials, which included Foster Grant sunglasses and TWA. Her first roles in television, among others, were on ''Room 222'', ''Nanny and the Professor'' and ''Love, American Style''. Williams accompanied an actor-friend from Los Angeles City Colleg ...
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Sami (TV Series)
Acronyms * SAMI, ''Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange'', a closed-captioning format developed by Microsoft * Saudi Arabian Military Industries, a government-owned defence company * South African Malaria Initiative, a virtual expertise network of malaria researchers People * Sami (name), including lists of people with the given name or surname *Sámi people, the indigenous people of Norway, Sweden, the Kola Peninsula and Finland *Sámi languages, languages spoken by the Sámi Places * Sami (ancient city), an ancient Greek city in the Peloponnese * Sami, Burkina Faso, a district * Sämi, a village in Lääne-Viru County in northeastern Estonia * Sami District, Gambia * Sami, Cephalonia, Greece, a municipality ** Sami Bay, east of Sami, Cephalonia * Sami, Gujarat, India, a town * Sami, Paletwa, Myanmar, a town Other uses * Sami (chimpanzee), chimpanzee who was kept at the Belgrade Zoo * Sami, a common name for ''Prosopis cineraria'', a tree See also * Karuppu Sami, a regi ...
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Love Songs
Love Songs may refer to: Film * ''Love Songs'' (1930 film), a French-German musical film * ''Love Songs'' (1984 film) or ''Paroles et Musique'', a French-Canadian film * ''Love Songs'' (1999 film), a television film starring Louis Gossett Jr. * ''Love Songs'' (2007 film), a French film directed by Christophe Honoré Music * Love Songs, an American punk band led by Craig Billmeier Albums * ''Love Songs'' (Anne Sofie von Otter and Brad Mehldau album), 2010 * ''Love Songs'' (Ayumi Hamasaki album), 2010 * ''Love Songs'' (Babyface album), 2001 * ''Love Songs'' (Barbra Streisand album), 1981 * ''Love Songs'' (Barry White album), 2003 * ''Love Songs'' (Beatles album), 1977 * ''Love Songs'' (Bee Gees album), 2005 * ''Love Songs'' (Billy Ray Cyrus album), 2008 * ''Love Songs'' (The Carpenters album), 1997 * ''Love Songs'' (Chicago album), 2005 * ''Love Songs'' (Cliff Richard album), 1981 * ''Love Songs'' (Dan Fogelberg album), 1995 * ''Love Songs'' (David Sanborn album), 19 ...
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Beyond The Golden Age
Beyond may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Beyond'' (1921 film), an American silent film * ''Beyond'' (2000 film), a Danish film directed by Åke Sandgren, OT: ''Dykkerne'' * ''Beyond'' (2010 film), a Swedish film directed by Pernilla August, OT: ''Svinalängorna'' * ''Beyond'' (2012 film), an American thriller directed by Josef Rusnak * ''Beyond'' (2014 film), a British science fiction film * "Beyond" (''The Animatrix''), a segment of the short-film collection ''The Animatrix'' *''Star Trek Beyond'', a 2016 American science fiction film in the ''Star Trek'' film franchise Games *Beyond Games, a U.S. video game developer founded in 1992 *Beyond Software, a 1980s UK video game developer *'' Beyond: Two Souls'', a video game for the PlayStation 3, developed by Quantic Dream *'' Beyond the Supernatural'', a 1980s role-playing game * Stormfront Studios, a U.S. video game developer originally named Beyond Software 1988–1991 Literature * ''Beyond'' (book), a 2 ...
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Fantasies (film)
''Fantasies'' is a 1981 R-rated English language drama film produced in West Germany. Directed by John Derek, the film starred his wife Kathleen Collins (really Mary Cathleen Collins; later known as Bo Derek). Co-stars included Peter Hooten, Anna Alexiadi, Faidon Georgitsis, Nikos Pashalidis, and Kostas Baladimas, with vocals by Walter Willison.David Sheff "A Hollywood Ten'', February 11, 1980 ''People Magazine''
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''Fantasies'' was filmed and produced on an extremely low budget in in 1974. Filming lasted just ove ...
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Harry And Walter Go To New York
''Harry and Walter Go to New York'' is a 1976 American historical drama, period comedy film written by John Byrum and Robert Kaufman, directed by Mark Rydell, and starring James Caan, Elliott Gould, Michael Caine, Diane Keaton, Charles Durning and Lesley Ann Warren. In the film, two down-on-their-luck con men try to pull off the biggest heist ever seen in late nineteenth-century New York City. They are opposed by the greatest bank robber of the day, and by a crusading newspaper editor. Plot Harry Dighby (Caan) and Walter Hill (Gould) are struggling vaudeville, vaudevillians who are sent to jail when Dighby is caught robbing audience members. They become roommates to a cultured, wealthy, and charming bank robber named Adam Worth (Caine). Worth plans to rob the Lowell, Massachusetts, Lowell Bank and Trust, both to avenge himself on the bank manager who had arranged his capture and because his ego cannot resist the temptation of robbing a bank reputed to be perfectly secure. Though i ...
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The Man And His Women
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