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    Beggar's Holiday is a musical with a book and lyrics by John La Touche and music by Duke Ellington. The project originated with black scenic designer Perry...
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    Minneapolis–Saint Paul, notably earning a BATC Award nomination for Best Actor for Beggar's Holiday in 2004 for and winning a Joseph Jefferson Award (Chicago's equivalent...
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  • Beggar's Holiday is a 1934 American drama film directed by Sam Newfield and starring Hardie Albright, J. Farrell MacDonald and Sally O'Neil. It was produced...
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    Archive ​The Beggar's Opera​ at the Internet Broadway Database The Beggar's Opera (1952) at IMDb  The Beggar's Opera (1983) at IMDb  The Beggar's Opera public...
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  • dancer in Follow the Girls (1943–44), Laffing Room Only (1944–45), Beggar's Holiday (1946–47), and Look, Ma, I'm Dancin'!. Choreographer By 1950, he was...
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    also performed in the Dark of the Moon (1945) as the Fair Witch, and Beggar's Holiday (1946) having multiple roles. She made her last Broadway appearance...
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  • Superstar (Italian tour) Judas Iscariot (also artistic director) 2002 Beggar's Holiday (Rubicon Theatre Company) Mac 2002-2003 Jesus Christ Superstar (national...
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    movies. In 1946 he even made an attempt at serious operatic acting in The Beggar's Opera, but received lukewarm reviews. He sang the title role in a short...
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    ballet; and Duke Ellington and John La Touche's musical Beggar's Holiday. After Beggar's Holiday closed in March 1947, United Artists leased the Broadway...
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    including Porgy and Bess (as Sportin' Life in the 1942 revival), and Beggar's Holiday (1946). Long and Lena Horne co-introduced the Harold Arlen–Ted Koehler...
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    as Sarah - Mary's Maid (uncredited) I Give My Love (1934) as Maid Beggar's Holiday (1934) as Heliotrope Imitation of Life (1934) as Delilah Johnson West...
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    Lieutenant Gregory (uncredited) White Heat (1934) as Chandler Morris Beggar's Holiday (1934) as Dapper Frank Mason aka Bing The Scarlet Letter (1934) as...
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    1933 High Gear Reporter / Spectator in Grandstand Uncredited 1934 Beggar's Holiday Bellhop Uncredited 1935 The Girl Friend Chorus Boy in Play Uncredited...
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    Musical) King of Persia, Ahasuerus (Queen Esther's dilemma) Beggar / Happy Mac (Beggar's Holiday) King of the Sea (The Little Mermaid) Don Quixote (Man of...
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    played Alfred Drake's love interest in the Broadway production of Beggar's Holiday. All of Smith's 1940s Broadway shows were short-lived, but her performances...
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    whom Ray knew from the New York theater, including Marie Bryant from Beggar's Holiday as a nightclub singer, Curt Conway and Will Lee, who would later play...
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    Despite this disappointment, a Broadway production of Ellington's Beggar's Holiday, his sole book musical, premiered on December 23, 1946, under the direction...
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    As You Like It (1941) Oklahoma! (1943) Sing Out, Sweet Land (1944) Beggar's Holiday (1946) The Cradle Will Rock (1947) Kiss Me, Kate (1948) Joy to the...
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  • The Beggar's Benison was a Scottish gentlemen's club devoted to "the convivial celebration of male sexuality". It was founded in 1732 in the town of Anstruther...
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  • Side one No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Tomorrow Mountain" (from Beggar's Holiday) Latouche D. Ellington   2. "Song of the Islands (Na lei o Hawaii)" C...
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  • the same name. The Beggar Student 1882 German operetta Carl Millöcker Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée Millöcker Beggar's Holiday 1946 Broadway Duke Ellington...
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  • Adonis (1884); music also by Edward E. Rice Duke Ellington (1899–1974) Beggar's Holiday (1946) My People (1963) Pousse-Café (1966) Sophisticated Ladies (1981);...
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    Barney Kessel and others. In 1946, she starred in the musical show Beggar's Holiday, with music by Ellington and lyrics by John LaTouche. She worked as...
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  • Reform Girl (1933) The Important Witness (1933) Marrying Widows (1934) Beggar's Holiday (1934) Bulldog Courage (1935) Red Blood of Courage (1935) Northern...
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  • in 1946. She left Claudia for the original theatrical production of Beggar's Holiday the same year playing Tawdry Audrey. In the production, she had to...
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    Jenkins Drama Warner Bros. Beggars in Ermine Phil Rosen Lionel Atwill, Jameson Thomas, Betty Furness Drama Monogram Beggar's Holiday Sam Newfield Sally O'Neil...
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    office hit, and the group closed its first season at the JLA with Beggar's Holiday, an original comedy which opened on November 28, 1981, to a glowing...
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    (1931) The Brat (1931) By Appointment Only (1933) The Moth (1934) Beggar's Holiday (1934) Convention Girl (1935) Too Tough to Kill (1935) Kathleen Mavourneen...
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  • Across (1942 musical) Rhapsody (1944 operetta) Polonaise (1945 musical) Beggar's Holiday (1946 musical) The Golden Apple (1954 musical) The Vamp (1955 musical)...
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  • only Broadway production, the Duke Ellington-John Latouche musical Beggar's Holiday, in 1946. Earlier that year he was assistant director, under director...
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