query: a raisin in the sun original broadway cast

pos: A Raisin in the Sun cast of Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, Louis Gossett, Jr. and John Fiedler. Hansberry wrote the screenplay, and the film was directed by Daniel Petrie. It was released by Columbia Pictures and Ruby Dee won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress. Both Poitier and McNeil were nominated for Golden Globe Awards, and Petrie received a special "Gary Cooper Award" at the Cannes Film Festival. A musical version of the play, "Raisin", ran on Broadway from October 18, 1973, to December 7, 1975. The book of the musical, which stayed close to

pos: Louis Gossett Jr. still a student at Abraham Lincoln High School, with no formal drama training. Gossett's Broadway theatre credits include "A Raisin in the Sun" (1959). Gossett stepped into the world of cinema in the Sidney Poitier vehicle "A Raisin in the Sun" in 1961. Also in 1961, Gossett appeared in the original cast of Jean Genet's "The Blacks", the longest running off-Broadway play of the decade, running for 1,408 performances. The original cast also featured James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Browne, Cicely Tyson, Godfrey Cambridge, Maya Angelou and Charles Gordone. In 1965, Gossett appeared in the musical play, "Zulu and the

pos: Lonne Elder III encouragement from poets Robert Hayden and Langston Hughes, among others and began honing his talent as a writer. Working as a stage actor, Elder landed the role of Bobo in the original Broadway run of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" in 1959. Inspired by Hansberry and his friendship with dramatist Douglas Turner Ward, Elder set his sights on becoming a playwright. Sharing an apartment with Ward also helped inspire Elder to write a play titled "A Hysterical Turtle in a Rabbit Race" (1961). It was an early expression of Elder's chosen theme of the black family in a

pos: Glynn Turman prominent acting role at the age of 13 as Travis Younger in the original Broadway production of Lorraine Hansberry's classic "A Raisin in the Sun", opposite Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Ivan Dixon, Louis Gossett, Jr., Lonne Elder III, John Fiedler and Diana Sands. While he did not play the role when it transferred to film in 1961, he intensified his studies at Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts. Upon graduation he apprenticed in regional and repertory companies throughout the country, including Tyrone Guthrie's Repertory Theatre, in which he performed in late '60s productions of "Good Boys", "Harper's Ferry",

pos: A Raisin in the Sun (1961 film) A Raisin in the Sun (1961 film) A Raisin in the Sun is a 1961 drama film directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Roy Glenn, and Louis Gossett Jr. (in his film debut), and adapted from the 1959 play of the same name by Lorraine Hansberry. It follows a black family that wants a better life away from the city. "A Raisin in the Sun" was released by Columbia Pictures on May 29, 1961. In 2005, the film was selected for preservation in the United States of America National Film Registry by

pos: A Raisin in the Sun (2008 film) A Raisin in the Sun (2008 film) A Raisin in the Sun is a 2008 American made-for-television film directed by Kenny Leon and starring Sean Combs, Audra McDonald, Phylicia Rashad, and Sanaa Lathan reprising their roles from the 2004 revival which was also directed by Leon. The teleplay by Paris Qualles is based on the award-winning 1959 play of the same name by Lorraine Hansberry and is the second film adaptation of that play following the 1961 film that starred Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, and Diana Sands. "A Raisin in the Sun" debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film

pos: A Raisin in the Sun (1961 film) and slightly dangerous, but they believe that they can succeed through optimism, determination, and remaining together as a family. Ruby Dee won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress. Both Poitier and MacNeil were nominated for Golden Globe Awards, and director Petrie received a special "Gary Cooper Award" at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. A Raisin in the Sun (1961 film) A Raisin in the Sun is a 1961 drama film directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Roy Glenn, and Louis Gossett Jr. (in his film debut), and adapted

neg: A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in the Sun as moving today as it was then." In 1960 "A Raisin In The Sun" was nominated for four Tony Awards: Some five months after its Broadway opening, Hansberry's play appeared in London's West End, playing at the Adelphi Theatre from August 4, 1959. As on Broadway, the director was Lloyd Richards, and the cast was as follows: The play was presented (as before) by Philip Rose and David J. Cogan, in association with the British impresario Jack Hylton. In 1961, a film version of "A Raisin in the Sun" was released featuring its original Broadway

neg: A Raisin in the Sun a new production of the play by director/producer Pauline Harris. This version restores the character of Mrs Johnson and a number of scenes that were cut from the Broadway production and subsequent film, with the following cast: The play opened April 6, 2017, at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., directed by Tazewell Thompson, with the following cast: The 2010 Bruce Norris play "Clybourne Park" depicts the white family that sold the house to the Youngers. The first act takes place just before the events of "A Raisin in the Sun", involving the selling of the house to the African American

neg: Daniel Petrie Daniel Petrie Daniel Mannix Petrie (November 26, 1920 – August 22, 2004) was a Canadian television and film director. Petrie was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Mary Anne (née Campbell) and William Mark Petrie, a soft-drink manufacturer. He moved to the United States in 1945. His signature film "A Raisin in the Sun" (1961), was assigned to him after it was refused to its original director on Broadway, future National Medal of Arts honoree Lloyd Richards, because Richards was black. The movie maintained the award-winning cast and performances it had had on Broadway during its

neg: A Raisin in the Sun technical categories. Bill Duke directed the production, while Chiz Schultz produced. This production was based on an off-Broadway revival produced by the Roundabout Theatre. On 3 March 1996 the BBC broadcast a production of the play by director/producer Claire Grove, with the following cast: A revival ran on Broadway at the Royale Theatre from April 26, 2004, to July 11, 2004 at the Royale Theatre with the following cast: The director was Kenny Leon with David Binder and Vivek Tiwary producers. The play won two 2004 Tony Awards: Best Actress in a Play (Phylicia Rashad) and Best Featured Actress in

neg: Ralph Alswang and Ralph Alswang. From 1942 to 1977, Alswang produced designs for nearly 100 Broadway productions, more than 70 of which were original productions. Alswang's first major design work was the scenery for the 1942 production of "Comes the Revelation" at Jolson's 59th Street Theatre. In 1946, Alswang designed the scenery for the Broadway revival of "Lysistrata". In addition to scenery, Alswang also designed lighting and costumes. He was the lighting designer for the original Broadway productions of "A Raisin in the Sun" and "Beyond the Fringe", each running for more than 500 performances. In some cases, such as the short-lived

neg: Anika Noni Rose Off-Broadway and "Me and Mrs. Jones" with Lou Rawls in Philadelphia. Both of the full-scale tuners were rumored for transfers, but neither made it anywhere after their limited engagements ended. Rose's big Broadway break was getting cast as Emmie Thibodeaux in "Caroline, or Change". In 2004, she was awarded the Theatre World Award, the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress, and the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for "Caroline, or Change". In 2014, Rose returned to Broadway in a revival of "A Raisin in the Sun," receiving a nomination for the Tony Award for Best

neg: A Raisin in the Sun the Sun" was the first play written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway, as well as the first with a black director, Mr. Richards. Hansberry noted that her play introduced details of black life to the overwhelmingly white Broadway audiences, while director Richards observed that it was the first play to which large numbers of black people were drawn. Frank Rich, writing in "The New York Times" in 1983, stated that "A Raisin in the Sun" "changed American theater forever." In 2016, Claire Brennan wrote in "The Guardian" that "The power and craft of the writing make

neg: Billie Allen Saints in Three Acts" in 1952; and "My Darlin' Aida", an adaptation of a Giuseppe Verdi opera, which also opened in 1952. She also appeared with one of her mentors, the legendary Ethel Waters in the revival of the off Broadway production of "Mamba's Daughters". Allen was accepted into the Actors Studio, where she studied under the renowned acting teacher and actor Lee Strasberg. She was later cast as understudy in the part of "Beneatha Younger" in the 1959 Broadway premier production of playwright Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun". She later assumed the full-time role of "Beneatha Younger"

neg: A Raisin in the Sun as Stephen Colbert reciting "A Dream Deferred" just before the closing credits. A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. The title comes from the poem "Harlem" (also known as "A Dream Deferred") by Langston Hughes. The story tells of a black family's experiences in the Washington Park Subdivision of Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood as they attempt to "better" themselves with an insurance payout following the death of the father. The New York Drama Critics' Circle named it the best play of 1959. Walter and Ruth Younger,

neg: A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. The title comes from the poem "Harlem" (also known as "A Dream Deferred") by Langston Hughes. The story tells of a black family's experiences in the Washington Park Subdivision of Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood as they attempt to "better" themselves with an insurance payout following the death of the father. The New York Drama Critics' Circle named it the best play of 1959. Walter and Ruth Younger, their son Travis, along with Walter's mother Lena (Mama) and Walter's sister

neg: Clybourne Park by Edward Sobel creates characters that flirt with stereotypes, but become real and believable...This is a bitter satire that makes us laugh while it indicts us." The play opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre on April 19, 2012 (in previews starting March 26, 2012) for a 16-week limited engagement. The Off-Broadway cast reprised their roles. The play was nominated for several Tony Awards, and won the one for Best Play. In 2013, the play was staged at the Guthrie Theater (May to June 2013), in rotating repertory with "A Raisin in the Sun" at the Dallas Theater Center,

neg: Stephen Henderson (actor) August Wilson role is the gossipy Turnbo in "Jitney" for which he won a Drama Desk Award. He had created the role in the 1996 premiere at the Pittsburgh Public Theater, then honed it (as Wilson was honing the script) in other regional theaters before its arrival Off-Broadway in 2000. But having missed the Tony Award (which is limited to Broadway), he and the core of the cast took "Jitney" to London where it won the 2002 Olivier Award for best new play. In addition, he appeared in "A Raisin in the Sun" and directed "Zooman and the Sign". With

neg: Kenny Leon at the Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre Company; and a musical inspired by the work of rapper Tupac Shakur. In 2014, he directed the Broadway revival of "A Raisin in the Sun" starring Denzel Washington and LaTanya Richardson Jackson and the Broadway premiere of the musical "Holler If Ya Hear Me", featuring the discography of Tupac Shakur. Leon won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for his work on "A Raisin in the Sun". That same year Mr. Leon directed "NPR Presents Water±", written by award-winning NPR Science Correspondent Christopher Joyce, and award-winning theater writers Arthur Yorinks

neg: Lorraine Hansberry winning the Tony Award for Best Musical, with the book by Nemiroff, music by Judd Woldin, and lyrics by Robert Britten. "A Raisin in the Sun" was revived on Broadway in 2004 and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Revival of a Play. The cast included Sean Combs ("P Diddy") as Walter Lee Younger Jr., Phylicia Rashad (Tony Award-winner for Best Actress) and Audra McDonald (Tony Award-winner for Best Featured Actress). It was produced for television in 2008 with the same cast, garnering two NAACP Image Awards. Nina Simone first released a song about Hansberry in 1969 called "To

neg: Lloyd Richards break during World War II while serving in the U.S. Army Air Force. Among Richards' accomplishments are his staging the original production of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun", debuting on Broadway to standing ovations on 11 March 1959, and in 1984 he introduced August Wilson to Broadway in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom". As head of the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, he helped develop the careers of August Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein, Christopher Durang, Lee Blessing and David Henry Hwang. Richards was Dean of Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre,

neg: Raisin (musical) Raisin (musical) Raisin is a musical theatre adaptation of the Lorraine Hansberry play "A Raisin in the Sun", with songs by Judd Woldin and Robert Brittan, and a book by Robert Nemiroff (who was Hansberry's former husband) and Charlotte Zaltzberg. The story concerns an African-American family in Chicago in 1951. The musical was nominated for nine Tony Awards, winning two, including Best Musical, and the Broadway production ran for 847 performances. In Chicago in 1951, an African-American family, Ruth Younger, her husband Walter Lee Younger, their son Travis and Walter's mother are living in a cramped apartment. Walter is a

neg: Beah Richards Corner". She was born Beulah Elizabeth Richardson in Vicksburg, Mississippi; her mother was a seamstress and PTA advocate and her father was a Baptist minister. In 1948, she graduated from Dillard University in New Orleans and two years later moved to New York City. Her career began in 1955 when she portrayed an eighty-four-year-old-grandmother in the off-Broadway show "Take a Giant Step". She often played the role of a mother or grandmother, and continued acting her entire life. She appeared in the original Broadway productions of "Purlie Victorious", "The Miracle Worker", and "A Raisin in the Sun". Richards was nominated

neg: Raisin (musical) the book of the musical "is perhaps even better than the play... 'Raisin' is one of those unusual musicals that should not only delight people who love musicals, but might also well delight people who don't". After the Broadway opening, Walter Kerr of "The New York Times" wrote, "The strength of "Raisin" lies in the keen intelligence and restless invention of a musical underscoring that has simply invaded Lorraine Hansbury's once tightly-knit, four-walled, close-quartered play, "A Raisin in the Sun", plucking the walls away, spilling the action onto the streets with a jittery down-flight of strings, mocking and matching realistic

neg: Sun-Maid the Kingsburg plant serves as the international headquarters of Sun-Maid Growers of California. The original "Sun-Maid Girl" was a real person named Lorraine Collett. She attended the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco as one of several young girls representing the California Associated Raisin Company. The Sun-Maid girls promoted the raisin industry by handing out raisin samples to visitors of the Expo while wearing white blouses with blue piping and blue sunbonnets. A photograph of Collett appeared in the "San Francisco Bulletin" in 1915 and promoted Sun-Maid’s activities at the Exposition. While working at the Expo in San Francisco,

neg: Kenny Leon and Carl Hancock Rux with an original sound score by violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR). The show toured nationally, co-hosted by NPR's Michele Norris and WWNO's Eve Troeh and featuring Tony Award-winner Anika Noni Rose ("Caroline, or Change"); Tony Award-nominee Michele Shay (August Wilson's "Seven Guitars"); Jason Dirden (Tony Award-winning production "A Raisin in the Sun"); and Lucas Caleb Rooney ("Boardwalk Empire"). In 2015, Leon directed the live musical"The Wiz" for NBC. Cirque du Soleil is partnering on the production with plans to bring the show to Broadway. He is slated to direct both the television production and Broadway revival.

neg: A Raisin in the Sun widely acclaimed production at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, described by Dominic Cavendish in The Daily Telegraph as – “A brilliant play, brilliantly served.”. Michael Buffong, Ray Fearon and Jenny Jules all won MEN Awards. The cast were: – A second revival ran on Broadway from April 3, 2014, to June 15, 2014, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The play won three 2014 Tony Awards: Best Revival of a Play, Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play (Sophie Okonedo) and Best Direction of a Play (Kenny Leon). On 31 January 2016 the BBC broadcast

neg: Phylicia Rashad in the episode "Christmas Joy". In February 2008, Rashad portrayed "Lena Younger" in the television film adaptation of "A Raisin in the Sun", directed by Kenny Leon. Starring core members of the cast of the 2004 Broadway revival at the Royale Theatre of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play, including Audra McDonald as Ruth Younger, and Sean Combs as Walter Lee Younger. The television film adaption debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast by ABC on February 25, 2008. According to Nielsen Media Research, the program was watched by 12.7 million viewers and ranked #9 in the ratings for

neg: Ralph Carter Supposed to Die a Natural Death" for the Classical Theater of Harlem Company. Ralph Carter Ralph David Carter (born May 30, 1961) is an American actor and singer best remembered as Michael Evans, the youngest child of Florida and James Evans, Sr., on the CBS sitcom "Good Times" from 1974–1979. Before joining "Good Times", Carter appeared in the Broadway musical "Raisin," based on the Lorraine Hansberry drama "A Raisin in the Sun"; as was noted in the credits during the first season. Carter started on Broadway at just nine years old in the musical "The Me Nobody Knows". After runs

neg: Ralph Carter Ralph Carter Ralph David Carter (born May 30, 1961) is an American actor and singer best remembered as Michael Evans, the youngest child of Florida and James Evans, Sr., on the CBS sitcom "Good Times" from 1974–1979. Before joining "Good Times", Carter appeared in the Broadway musical "Raisin," based on the Lorraine Hansberry drama "A Raisin in the Sun"; as was noted in the credits during the first season. Carter started on Broadway at just nine years old in the musical "The Me Nobody Knows". After runs in "Tough To Get Help", "Dude" and "Via Galactica", he landed his breakout

neg: Ralph Carter husband, Henry, was renamed James for "Good Times". Carter's success in "Raisin" brought him to the attention of Lear, who bought out the remainder of his Broadway contract to cast him as the first original character of "Good Times", James and Florida's youngest son, Michael. In 1975, Carter recorded an album called "When You're Young and in Love", and performed it on Soul Train. The title song, along with another called "Extra, Extra" charted at No. 10 and No. 12 respectively. He released a single called "Get it Right" in 1985. In 2005, Carter appeared in the cast of "Ain't

neg: Raisin (musical) speech with frog-throated sass from the heavy-breathing viols." "The New York Times" also reported that there are "ovations every night at the 46th Street Theatre for 'Raisin'. But they are for the cast, not individual performers. There are no stars... It was at the Arena Theater in Washington, where the play first opened this spring, that Mr. McKayle said he started evolving the ensemble-acting concept." Raisin (musical) Raisin is a musical theatre adaptation of the Lorraine Hansberry play "A Raisin in the Sun", with songs by Judd Woldin and Robert Brittan, and a book by Robert Nemiroff (who was Hansberry's

neg: Kenny Leon end of that year, he directed the Broadway premiere of August Wilson's "Gem of the Ocean". In spring 2007, he directed August Wilson's "Radio Golf". All three plays were nominated for Tony awards, and Leon was a Drama Desk Award nominee for "A Raisin in the Sun". He also directed the television version of "A Raisin in the Sun", which aired on ABC in February 2008. He was nominated for a Tony Award in 2010 for Best Director for his work on August Wilson's "Fences", starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, earning them both nominations and wins for Best Performance

neg: A Raisin in the Sun is African-American, "A Raisin in the Sun" was considered a risky investment, and it took over a year for producer Philip Rose to raise enough money to launch it. There was disagreement with how it should be played, with focus on the mother or focus on the son. When the play hit New York, Poitier played it with the focus on the son and found not only his calling but also an audience enthralled. After touring to positive reviews, the play premiered on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on March 11, 1959. It transferred to the Belasco Theatre on

neg: Lorraine Hansberry and wrote about feminism and homophobia, joining the Daughters of Bilitis and contributing two letters to their magazine, "The Ladder", in 1957 under her initials "LHN." She separated from her husband at this time, but they continued to work together. "A Raisin in the Sun" was written at this time and completed in 1957. Opening on March 11, 1959, "A Raisin in the Sun" became the first play written by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway. The 29-year-old author became the youngest American playwright and only the fifth woman to receive the New York Drama Critics Circle

neg: John Fiedler television and played Cadet Alfie Higgins on the 1950s show "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet", and he made his film debut in 1957 in "12 Angry Men", as Juror #2. Most of his roles were playing gentle or nervous individuals, though he appeared as the lawyer J. Noble Daggett in "True Grit" (1969) and in the original "" episode "Wolf in the Fold" (1967) as Mr. Hengist, a Chief Administrator possessed by the spirit of Jack the Ripper. Fiedler was in the original cast of "A Raisin in the Sun" as housing committee representative Lindner, a role he also played in

neg: Noma Dumezweni Noma Dumezweni Noma Dumezweni (born 28 July 1969) is an English actress. In 2006, she won an Olivier Award for her role in "A Raisin in the Sun". She stars as Hermione Granger in the original West End and Broadway runs of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," which garnered her a second Laurence Olivier Award and a Tony Award nomination. Born in Swaziland, of South African parents, Dumezweni lived in Botswana, Kenya and Uganda. She arrived in England as a refugee on 17 May 1977 with her sister and mother. She first lived in Felixstowe, Suffolk, where she was

neg: A Raisin in the Sun (2008 film) Lathan reprised the roles they played in the 2004 Broadway revival, which also was directed by Kenny Leon. It ran at the Royale Theatre for 31 previews and 89 performances. McDonald and Rashad both won the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for their performances, and Lathan was honored with the prestigious Theatre World Award. In his review in "Variety", Dennis Harvey said, "Strong performances and a brisk pace downplay the original script's more dated, preachy aspects . . . No one will mistake this well-produced but inevitably dialogue-driven piece for pure cinema, but Leon and adapter Paris Qualles open

neg: David Binder Awards including Best Revival, and Of Mice and Men became the first Broadway show to be filmed by the National Theatre of Great Britain’s NT Live and shown in cinemas around the world. Binder produced the first Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, starring Sean Combs, Audra McDonald, Phylicia Rashad and Sanaa Lathan. The 2004 production won two Tony Awards for Best Actress and Best Featured Actress in a Play. He is an Executive Producer of the ABC television movie based on the Broadway production. In 1998 Binder presented the off-Broadway hit De La Guarda, and

neg: Virginia Capers Virginia Capers Eliza Capers (September 22, 1925 – May 6, 2004) was an American actress. She won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical in 1974 for her performance as Lena Younger in "Raisin", a musical version of Lorraine Hansberry's play "A Raisin in the Sun". Born in Sumter, South Carolina, Capers attended Howard University and studied voice at the Juilliard School in New York City. She made her Broadway debut in the musical "Jamaica" in 1957 as a replacement for Adelaide Hall in the role of Grandma Obeah, taking over the role when Hall left the

neg: Judd Woldin and Famous Poems Illustrated". After being on the road with Don Elliott and Lionel Hampton, he attended Black Mountain College along with Josef Albers and Heinrich Jalowetz, and would later go to University of New Mexico along with Ernst Krenek. He also joined BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, and while paired with Robert Brittan, they would begin work on Lorraine Hansberry's play "A Raisin In The Sun". The result was "Raisin". It premiered May 30, 1973 at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. and would move to Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre on October 18, 1973, transferred to

neg: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf a way that mimicked how real women speak so she could draw her readers' focus to the experience of reading and listening. In December 1974, Shange performed the first incarnation of her choreopoem with four other artists at a women's bar outside Berkeley, California. After moving to New York City, she continued work on "for colored girls...", which went on to open at the Booth Theatre in 1976, becoming the second play by a black woman to reach Broadway, preceded by Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" in 1959. Shange updated the original choreopoem in 2010, by adding the

neg: Lorraine Hansberry termed her best work, and he adapted many of her writings into the play "To Be Young, Gifted and Black", which was the longest-running Off Broadway play of the 1968–69 season. It appeared in book form the following year under the title "To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words". She left behind an unfinished novel and several other plays, including "The Drinking Gourd" and "What Use Are Flowers?", with a range of content, from slavery to a post-apocalyptic future. "Raisin", a musical based on "A Raisin in the Sun," opened in New York in 1973,

neg: Hal DeWindt DeWindt staged an Off-Broadway production of "Raisin' Hell in the Son", a spoof of "A Raisin in the Sun" that he co-wrote with Reni Santoni. DeWindt served as production stage manager at the New York Shakespeare Festival for seven years. He was a director with Robert Hooks's Group Theater Workshop, which led to the creation of the Negro Ensemble Company, which he served with as a workshop director. DeWindt was the founder and artistic director of the American Theatre of Harlem, and artistic director of the Inner City Repertory Company in Los Angeles. In 1977, he formed the Hal DeWindt

neg: Robert B. Nemiroff life to editing and promoting Hansberry work who died at 34 from cancer. Nemiroff produced and co-wrote the Broadway musical "Raisin" based on "A Raisin in the Sun". Robert B. Nemiroff Robert B. Nemiroff (October 29, 1929– July 18, 1991) was an American theater producer and songwriter, and was the ex-husband of Lorraine Hansberry. He was a book editor and a music publisher. Nemiroff was an award-winning songwriter with co-writer Burt D’Lugoff the 1956 “Cindy, Oh Cindy,” and “Fifteen,” the theme for the movie "The World, the Flesh, and the Devil". He married Lorraine Hansberry in 1953 which Hansberry often

neg: Vivek Tiwary Vivek Tiwary Vivek J. Tiwary (born May 15, 1973) is an American author and theater producer. Tiwary graduated high school from New York's Collegiate School and graduated college from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996, "magna cum laude", with undergraduate degrees from both the Wharton School of Business and the College of Arts and Sciences. In 2004, Tiwary was a lead producer for a Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun". In 2010, Tiwary was a co-producer for both the Broadway productions of Green Day's rock opera, "American Idiot" and "The Addams Family". In total, Tiwary’s Broadway

neg: Kenny Leon Ballyhoo", and Elton John and Tim Rice's musical "Aida", which went on to Broadway. The Alliance's endowment also rose from $1 to $5 million during his time there. Leon resigned from the Alliance in 2000 to take on other projects. These included being the co-founder and artistic director of True Colors Theater Company, a group based in both Atlanta and Washington, D.C. He also took his talents to Broadway. In the spring of 2004 he directed a revival of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun", starring Sean Combs, Phylicia Rashad and Audra McDonald in his Broadway debut. At the

neg: Paul Tazewell Color Purple", and, in 2009, "Guys and Dolls" (Revival) and "Memphis". Recent Broadway work includes "Dr Zhivago", "Side Show", and "A Streetcar Named Desire". Plays on Broadway have included "Lombardi", "The Miracle Worker" (Revival), "Magic/Bird" and the Tony Award-winning revival of "A Raisin in the Sun". His off-Broadway work as a costume designer includes "Hamilton", "Elaine Stritch at Liberty" (2001), "Boston Marriage" (2002), "Ruined", "One Flea Spare", "Flesh and Blood", and "Harlem Song" (Apollo Theater). In regional theatre he has designed costumes for, among many, Arena Stage ("The Women", 1999, and "Polk County", 2002), The Guthrie Theatre, The Goodman Theatre,

neg: Hair (musical) the Sun Shine In" and brings audience members up on stage to dance. The original Broadway production also included Melba Moore as Dionne, Ronnie Dyson, who sang "Aquarius" and "What a Piece of Work is Man", Paul Jabara and Diane Keaton. "Hair" opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre on April 29, 1968. The production was directed by Tom O'Horgan and choreographed by Julie Arenal, with set design by Robin Wagner, costume design by Nancy Potts, and lighting design by Jules Fisher. The original Broadway "tribe" (i.e., cast) included authors Rado and Ragni, who played the lead roles of Claude

neg: Sun-Maid Sun-Maid Sun-Maid Growers of California is a privately owned American cooperative of raisin growers headquartered in Kingsburg, California. Sun-Maid is the largest raisin and dried fruit processor in the world. As a cooperative, Sun-Maid is made up of approximately 850 family farmers who grow raisin grapes within radius of the processing plant. Sun-Maid also sources dried fruit beyond this geographical area. In 2012, Sun-Maid celebrated its 100th anniversary as a grower cooperative. Sun-Maid raisins are packaged in a red box featuring the iconic “Sun-Maid Girl” wearing a red sunbonnet and holding a tray of fresh grapes. Sun-Maid raisins are grown

neg: The Wiz investor, put in another $100,000 to keep it going and everyone agreed to royalty cuts until the production's cost—about $1.1 million—was recouped...By the eighth week, we were selling out." The Broadway production moved to The Broadway Theatre on May 25, 1977, and closed on January 28, 1979, after four years and 1,672 performances. Along with other musicals including "Purlie" (1971) and "Raisin" (1974), "The Wiz" was a breakthrough for Broadway, a large-scale big-budget musical featuring an all-black cast. It laid the foundation for later African-American hits such as "Bubbling Brown Sugar", "Dreamgirls" and "Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies". The musical toured

neg: Sun-Maid been reproduced internationally and is perhaps the artist's best known work, unchanged for more than 40 years. In 2006, the Sun-Maid Girl was animated for television commercials in which she walked and talked for the first time. The commercials were designed and produced by Synthespian Studios. Sun-Maid Sun-Maid Growers of California is a privately owned American cooperative of raisin growers headquartered in Kingsburg, California. Sun-Maid is the largest raisin and dried fruit processor in the world. As a cooperative, Sun-Maid is made up of approximately 850 family farmers who grow raisin grapes within radius of the processing plant. Sun-Maid also

neg: Denzel Washington a Play on June 13, 2010. From April to June 2014, Washington played the leading role in the Broadway production of Lorraine Hansberry's classic drama "A Raisin in the Sun", directed by Kenny Leon. The show received positive reviews and won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. Beginning March 22, 2018, Washington starred as Theodore "Hickey" Hickman in a Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh". The production, directed by George C. Wolfe, began regular performances April 26 and ran for 14 weeks. In 2010, Washington starred in "The Book of Eli", a post-Apocalyptic drama

neg: Sophie Okonedo production of Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere", adapted by Dirk Maggs. She appeared in 2014 on Broadway in the revival of "A Raisin in the Sun" as Ruth Younger. She won the Tony Award, Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for this role, beating out co-star and fellow nominee Anika Noni Rose. In 2016, Okonedo returned to Broadway in Ivo van Hove's production of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" at the Walter Kerr Theatre as Elizabeth Proctor opposite Bill Camp, Tavi Gevinson, Jason Butler Harner, Ciarán Hinds, Jim Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Thomas Jay Ryan and Ben Whishaw.

neg: Denzel Washington of the Messianic Jews' congregation in Haifa. In April 2014, Washington presented at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition with Bryan Cranston, Idina Menzel and Fran Drescher, after raising donations at his Broadway show "A Raisin in the Sun". Denzel Washington Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, director, and producer. He has received three Golden Globe awards, a Tony Award, and two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for the historical war drama film "Glory" (1989) and Best Actor for his role as a corrupt cop in the crime thriller "Training Day" (2001). Washington

neg: Richard Parnell Habersham Richard Parnell Habersham Richard Parnell Habersham, born in Manhattan and raised in Harlem, is an African American actor in theatre and film and a real estate broker in New York City. Richard Habersham has appeared in theatre productions such as Ron Mark's fantasy farce "Panache!" and on Broadway in "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," the Tony Award nominated drama written by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright August Wilson. Habersham played the role of Travis Younger in the Union Square Theatre 25th Anniversary Off Broadway production of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun." In film, Habersham played Eddie in Spike Lee's

neg: Linda Powell roles being Ingrid Mills on "Chicago Fire", Pauline Samson in TV mini-series "Political Animals" and a lawyer in the film "Blue Caprice". Powell has also worked extensively in the theater, starring on Broadway in revivals of "Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" and "On Golden Pond", and off Broadway in productions of "A Raisin in the Sun", "Angela’s Mixtape" and "The Christians" Linda Powell Linda Powell (born April, 1965) is an American actress. Powell was born in Fort Benning, Georgia, the daughter of Alma and Colin Powell, the former United States Secretary of State, National Security Advisor and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs

neg: A Raisin in the Sun October 19, 1959, and closed on June 25, 1960, after 530 total performances. Directed by Lloyd Richards, the cast comprised: Ossie Davis later took over as Walter Lee Younger, and Frances Williams as Lena Younger. Waiting for the curtain to rise on opening night, Hansberry and producer Rose did not expect the play to be a success, for it had already received mixed reviews from a preview audience the night before. Though it won popular and critical acclaim, reviewers argued about whether the play was "universal" or particular to African-American experience. It was then produced on tour. "A Raisin in

neg: Arielle Tepper Madover for six months at the Cort Theater in New York. Arielle’s producing credits include the film "Genius" and many Broadway and Off-Broadway shows including: "Les Liaisons Dangereuses", "The Elephant Man" starring Bradley Cooper, "The Cripple of Inishmaan" starring Daniel Radcliffe, "Lucky Guy" starring Tom Hanks, "" starring Bette Midler, "Annie", "Hamlet" starring Jude Law, "Frost/Nixon, Monty Python’s Spamalot", and "A Raisin in the Sun." In 2016, Arielle took a small step back from her production company to launch her newest venture, WhatShouldWeDo?!, a New York planning, recommendations, and booking service. In 2005, Madover formed The Living Room for Artists a

neg: Gloria Foster in life was to move to New York to pursue a career on Broadway. Gloria Foster began her career on Broadway as she moved to New York in 1963. Her first role was Ruth in the show of "A Raisin in the Sun". She started an acting career as her agent, Ernestine McClendon, sent her on an audition for "In White America". The play was about the history of blacks in the United States and the oppression they had to face. Gloria Foster, "play[s] a 13-year-old Arkansas girl who tries to enter her Little Rock school". This was her first

neg: To Be Young, Gifted and Black (play) To Be Young, Gifted and Black (play) "To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in her Own Words", was written by Lorraine Hansberry, an American writer best known for her 1957 play "A Raisin in the Sun", a play that made Hansberry the first black author of a show on Broadway. After her death in 1965, Hansberry's ex-husband and friend, songwriter and poet Robert Nemiroff, collated her unpublished writings and adapted them into a stage play that first ran from 1968 to 1969 off Broadway. It was then converted into an equally successful autobiography with the same title. The

neg: To Be Young, Gifted and Black (play) which she eventually died at 34. The play was well received and was one of the most successful plays off-Broadway during the 1968–1969 season. The play is still anthologized and performed around the world. The autobiography adapted from the play was also critically acclaimed. To Be Young, Gifted and Black (play) "To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in her Own Words", was written by Lorraine Hansberry, an American writer best known for her 1957 play "A Raisin in the Sun", a play that made Hansberry the first black author of a show on Broadway. After her death in

neg: Ron O'Neal "A Raisin in the Sun", while working as a housepainter to earn his living. In 1964, he went to New York, teaching acting classes at the Harlem Youth Arts Program and appearing in Off-Broadway plays. In 1969, his theatrical breakthrough came in the Broadway play "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men". In 1970, appearing in Charles Gordone's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "No Place to Be Somebody", he garnered even more attention, winning an Obie Award and several other prizes. From there, he moved on to cinema with two minor roles in "Move" (1970) and "The Organization" (1971), after which he was contacted

neg: Anika Noni Rose Anika Noni Rose Anika Noni Rose (born September 6, 1972) is an American actress and singer known for her Tony Award-winning performance in the Broadway production of "Caroline, or Change" and her starring role as Lorrell Robinson in the 2006 film "Dreamgirls". She also voiced Tiana, Disney's first African-American princess in Walt Disney Pictures' 2009 animated film "The Princess and the Frog". In 2014, Rose played the role of Beneatha Younger in the Broadway revival of "A Raisin in the Sun", for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She was named

neg: Anika Noni Rose role in the 2017 BET drama "The Quad". Anika Noni Rose Anika Noni Rose (born September 6, 1972) is an American actress and singer known for her Tony Award-winning performance in the Broadway production of "Caroline, or Change" and her starring role as Lorrell Robinson in the 2006 film "Dreamgirls". She also voiced Tiana, Disney's first African-American princess in Walt Disney Pictures' 2009 animated film "The Princess and the Frog". In 2014, Rose played the role of Beneatha Younger in the Broadway revival of "A Raisin in the Sun", for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best

neg: Dreamgirls: Original Broadway Cast Album Dreamgirls: Original Broadway Cast Album Dreamgirls: Original Broadway Cast Album is the cast album for the original Broadway production of the musical "Dreamgirls", which debuted at the Imperial Theatre on December 20, 1981. The album was issued by David Geffen, a co-financier of the musical and later producer of its 2006 film adaptation, on his Geffen Records label during the winter of 1982. The "Dreamgirls" cast album features cast performances by the show's performers, including Jennifer Holliday, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine, Ben Harney, Cleavant Derricks, Obba Babatundé, and Vondie Curtis-Hall. The cast album includes highlights from the musical's score;

neg: Hair (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording) written as a space alien who aspires to be a cinematic director. This was changed for the Broadway production. This Off-Broadway recording includes the songs "Exanaplanetooch" and "Climax," which were cut from the Broadway production. The reviewer for Allmusic.com criticized Ragni's and Eaton's vocals but praised Plimpton. When it was released on CD as a bonus disc to the Broadway album, it also included an interview with composer Galt McDermot. Music by Galt MacDermot and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado: Hair (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording) Hair is the cast recording of the original, Off-Broadway cast of the musical

neg: Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording) is the original Broadway cast recording of the musical "Funny Girl", loosely based on the life of Fanny Brice: the show opened on March 26, 1964 at the Winter Garden Theater, starring Barbra Streisand. It is considered a Streisand's album since she performed 12 out of its 17 tracks. It was recorded in a one-day session, quickly after its Broadway debut, and released one week later by Capitol Records, marking the first time a Streisand album was not released through Columbia. At the time, Streisand was already a

neg: Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording) successful singer, winner of the 1963 Grammy Award for Album of the Year and Best Female Vocal Performance and with her 3 first solo albums charting in the Billboard Top 200. The album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in June 1964. and went to win its composers the Grammy for Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album, beating "Hello, Dolly!". All music written by Jule Styne; lyrics by – Bob Merrill Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording) is the original Broadway cast recording of the musical "Funny Girl", loosely based

neg: Rhetta Hughes in an off-Broadway revival of the musical "Raisin" mounted at the Equity Library Theatre, and play the second female lead Missy in a one-off staging of "Purlie" at the Lehman College Center for the Performing Arts taped for broadcast on Showtime. In 1982 - in a rare non-musical stage role - Hughes portrayed the maid in an all-black version of "Long Day's Journey Into Night" taped for the MT&R and broadcast by ABC-TV. During a 1983 tenure in the Broadway hit musical "Dreamgirls" (as a chorus line member and understudy for the role of "Dreamgirl" Lorrell), Hughes was cast for

neg: Ernestine Jackson Ernestine Jackson Ernestine Jackson (born September 18, 1942) is an African-American actress and singer. Born in Corpus Christi, Texas, Jackson made her Broadway debut in 1967 as Irene Molloy in the all-black cast of "Hello, Dolly!" starring Pearl Bailey. In 1973, Jackson originated the role of Ruth Younger in "Raisin", her performance winning her the Theatre World Award and a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical. Additional Broadway credits include "Applause", "The Bacchae", and the 1976 all-black revival of "Guys and Dolls", for which she was nominated for the Tony Award

neg: Raisin (musical) musical began a pre-Broadway tryout on May 30, 1973 at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.. It premiered on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre on October 18, 1973, transferred to the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on January 13, 1975, and closed on December 8, 1975 after 847 performances. Donald McKayle was the director and choreographer, and the cast featured Virginia Capers as Lena, Joe Morton as Walter, Ernestine Jackson as Ruth, Debbie Allen as Beneatha, Ralph Carter as Travis, Helen Martin as Mrs. Johnson, and Ted Ross as Bobo. Capers later starred in the national tour. The production won the Tony

neg: Dreamgirls: Original Broadway Cast Album The dance remix of "And I Am Telling You..." was produced by Craig C. All songs written by Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen. All songs written by Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen. Notes Dreamgirls: Original Broadway Cast Album Dreamgirls: Original Broadway Cast Album is the cast album for the original Broadway production of the musical "Dreamgirls", which debuted at the Imperial Theatre on December 20, 1981. The album was issued by David Geffen, a co-financier of the musical and later producer of its 2006 film adaptation, on his Geffen Records label during the winter of 1982. The "Dreamgirls" cast album

neg: Hair (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording) Hair (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording) Hair is the cast recording of the original, Off-Broadway cast of the musical "Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical". It was released in 1967 by RCA Victor. "Hair" premiered Off-Broadway at the Public Theater on October 17, 1967, and the cast album was recorded two weeks later. The lead roles were played by Walker Daniels as Claude, Gerome Ragni as Berger, Jill O'Hara as Sheila, Steve Dean as Woof, Arnold Wilkerson as Hud, Sally Eaton as Jeanie and Shelley Plimpton as Crissy. In the Off-Broadway version of "Hair", the lead role of Claude had been

neg: Gaelen Gilliland Gaelen Gilliland Gaelen Gilliland is an American musical theatre actress. She has appeared on Broadway in "Wicked", "Legally Blonde-Original Broadway Cast", and 9 to 5: The Musical-Original Broadway Cast, Honeymoon in Vegas-Original Broadway cast, and Kinky Boots. She worked on the pre-production and out of town performance of Finding Neverland. She appeared in the 1st National tour of Suessical:The Musical as Mazzie with Cathy Rigby. And in The Addams Family 1st National tour as Alice Beineke. Gaelen has performed in many regional theater productions. She will perform in the upcoming Broadway production of SpongeBob: The Musical in the original Broadway

neg: The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording contains the songs from the American musical "The Book of Mormon", with music, lyrics, and book by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone. It was recorded by the musical's original Broadway cast and released on May 17, 2011 to digital outlets. The album saw a physical release on June 7, 2011, in a deluxe package with liner notes provided by former "The New York Times" theatre critic Frank Rich, as well as full lyrics and a synopsis of the musical. "The Book of

neg: American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording is an album by the cast of "American Idiot" and Green Day. In September 2009, "American Idiot" began its run in the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California. After two extensions, it was transferred to the St. James Theatre on Broadway. The first single from the album, "21 Guns" was released on December 3, 2009. The album also includes "When It's Time", a previously unreleased song written by Billie Joe Armstrong. Two versions of it appear on the album, one by The Cast and one by Green Day.

neg: Cast recording album is the 1965 original cast recording of "Man of La Mancha", starring Richard Kiley and Joan Diener. It remains a bestselling classic to this day and is currently available from Decca Broadway Records. Original Cast - Founded by Bruce and Doris Yeko in 1975, this label specialises in recordings of obscure theatrical productions that would not otherwise get the chance to be commercially recorded. The label's output has included original cast and studio cast albums of notorious Broadway flops, recordings of lesser-known off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway shows, and the commercial release of privately made theatre-related recordings (such as composer's demos)

neg: A Raisin in the Sun (2008 film) for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Made For Television Movie but lost to "Recount". Phylicia Rashad was nominated Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie but lost to Laura Linney for "John Adams". Audra McDonald was nominated Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie but lost to Eileen Atkins for "Cranford". A Raisin in the Sun (2008 film) A Raisin in the Sun is a 2008 American made-for-television film directed by Kenny Leon and starring Sean Combs, Audra McDonald, Phylicia Rashad, and Sanaa Lathan reprising their roles from the 2004 revival which was also directed by

neg: Once on This Island skin color to accommodate multi-ethnic productions, while preserving the storyline about differences between the upper and lower classes. Notable Replacements in the Original Broadway cast Notable Replacements in the 2017 Broadway revival cast "Note: This is the song list from the original Broadway production" † Not included on the Original Broadway or Revival Broadway Cast Recordings <nowiki>*</nowiki>This song was changed to "Gossip" in the Broadway Revival Cut songs include "Come Down From the Tree" and "When Daniel Marries". "Come Down From the Tree", was a song for Mama Euralie; it is included in several recordings, including its first recording on

neg: Jersey Boys: Original Broadway Cast Recording Jersey Boys: Original Broadway Cast Recording Jersey Boys: Original Broadway Cast Recording is the Grammy-winning cast album for the Broadway musical "Jersey Boys", the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. The album was produced by original Four Season, Bob Gaudio. Principal vocals include Christian Hoff as "Tommy DeVito," Daniel Reichard as "Bob Gaudio," J. Robert Spencer as "Nick Massi" and John Lloyd Young as lead-singer "Frankie Valli." It was released November 1, 2005 by Rhino Entertainment and reached number eighty-five on the "Billboard" 200. In February 2008, the album was certified Gold by the RIAA. As of December

neg: Jersey Boys: Original Broadway Cast Recording 2014, the album has sold 1.4 million copies in the US. Jersey Boys won four 2006 Tony Awards: Best Musical, Best Actor (John Lloyd Young), Best Featured Actor (Christian Hoff) and Best Lighting (Howell Binkley). Jersey Boys: Original Broadway Cast Recording Jersey Boys: Original Broadway Cast Recording is the Grammy-winning cast album for the Broadway musical "Jersey Boys", the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. The album was produced by original Four Season, Bob Gaudio. Principal vocals include Christian Hoff as "Tommy DeVito," Daniel Reichard as "Bob Gaudio," J. Robert Spencer as "Nick Massi" and John Lloyd Young

neg: Sun-Maid Fresno as the rail stop, Fresno Station. Depots in surrounding communities soon followed. As the railroads expanded, so too did the area surrounding Fresno Station, attracting farmers eager to grow agricultural products to satisfy the increasing demand from faraway markets. Once raisins were established as a marketable crop which grew and dried well under the Californian sun, raisin grape-growing areas expanded rapidly in the late 19th century. The earliest successful efforts to form a cooperative business by raisin growers began in 1898. With community support, the California Associated Raisin Company was established in 1912. In 1915, the brand name Sun-Maid,

neg: Original Cast (record label) Under The Radar") will appear early 2015. Future editions of "Lost Broadway and More" are currently being mixed and edited. Original Cast (record label) Original Cast Records is a record label based in Georgetown, Connecticut, that specialises in obscure theatre recordings, primarily cast albums from little-known Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway and other stage productions, but also theatre-related film scores, cabaret, concert and solo artist recordings. It traces its origins back to 1975, when husband-and-wife theatre enthusiasts Bruce and Doris Yeko embarked on a venture "dedicated to the preserving of musicals that would not otherwise be recorded". Born in Milwaukee, Bruce Yeko

neg: Forbidden Broadway: 20th Anniversary Edition Forbidden Broadway: 20th Anniversary Edition Forbidden Broadway: 20th Anniversary Edition is the sixth volume in the Forbidden Broadway Cast Albums. Although there isn't a show with the same title, the CD has twenty-five of Forbidden Broadway's best songs, including eight previously unreleased tracks. It was conceived, created and written (parody lyrics) by Gerard Alessandrini. The CD bears the label "The Ultimate Unreleased Un-Original Cast Recording," pointing out that this does not exclusively feature the original cast. The liner notes give a retrospective of Forbidden Broadway's beginnings, as well as a gallery of photos of the original cast with the stars

neg: Hair (musical) several productions in Europe in the 1990s. The 2009 Broadway revival included the ten-second "Sheila Franklin" and "O Great God of Power", two songs that were cut from the original production. The first recording of "Hair" was made in 1967 featuring the off-Broadway cast. The original Broadway cast recording received a Grammy Award in 1969 for Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album and sold nearly 3 million copies in the U.S. by December 1969. It charted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the last Broadway cast album to do so (as of 2016). It stayed at No.

neg: Mean Girls (musical) Damian, Janis, Gretchen, Karen, Aaron, and Regina join together, finally accepting each other ("I See Stars"). † Not included on Original Broadway Cast Recording †† Included as part of "Fearless" on Original Broadway Cast Recording The Original Broadway Cast recording was released digitally in the U.S. on May 18, 2018. Physical album release in the U.S. was June 15, 2018. The album debuted at number 42 on the Billboard 200 chart, the highest debut for a cast album in over a year. On December 7, 2018, "Rockin' Around the Pole", which does not appear on the cast recording but is

neg: Lorraine Collett by 1920 the company adopted "Sun-Maid Raisin Growers' Association" as its new name. Backed by an aggressive marketing push throughout the 20s, Sun-Maid managed to triple American consumption of raisins by the end of the decade. A revised version of her likeness continued to be featured on all Sun-Maid packaging through 1960. In 1974, Collett was presented with a commemorative plaque by Sun-Maid's president at a ceremony where she presented Scafford's original portrait and the red bonnet to the company in exchange for $1700. Sun-Maid executives donated Collett's bonnet to the Smithsonian Institution in 1987 on the occasion of the

neg: West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast) from West Side Story” recomposed and conducted by its original composer Leonard Bernstein and performed by the New York Philharmonic recorded at the Manhattan Center on March 6, 1961. It was recorded at the CBS 30th Street Studio in New York City. All tracks written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast) West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast) is the 1957 recording of a Broadway production of the musical "West Side Story". Recorded 3 days after the show opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, the recording was released in October 1957 in both mono and

neg: Gaelen Gilliland cast at the Palace Theater in November 2017 as the Mayor of Bikini Bottom. Gaelen Gilliland Gaelen Gilliland is an American musical theatre actress. She has appeared on Broadway in "Wicked", "Legally Blonde-Original Broadway Cast", and 9 to 5: The Musical-Original Broadway Cast, Honeymoon in Vegas-Original Broadway cast, and Kinky Boots. She worked on the pre-production and out of town performance of Finding Neverland. She appeared in the 1st National tour of Suessical:The Musical as Mazzie with Cathy Rigby. And in The Addams Family 1st National tour as Alice Beineke. Gaelen has performed in many regional theater productions. She will

neg: American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording discs, although there is no mention of this on the sleeve as tracks are written consecutively as tracks 1 to 22. Despite being the curtain call of the show, "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" is not featured on the album. Band Main parts Ensemble Production Artwork American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording is an album by the cast of "American Idiot" and Green Day. In September 2009, "American Idiot" began its run in the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California. After two extensions, it was transferred to the St. James Theatre on Broadway.

neg: Cast recording is often the case that many cast recordings may be made for the same show. In addition to the recording of the cast of the original production, later high-profile productions may also produce cast recordings: for example, a recording by the cast of the first London production of a show that originated on Broadway, or of the first Broadway cast of a show that originated off-Broadway, or of the cast of a revival produced many decades later than the original production. For some musicals created before cast recordings became the norm, studio cast recordings are all that exist to document

neg: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: Original Broadway Cast Recording Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: Original Broadway Cast Recording Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: Original Broadway Cast Recording CD is produced by David Yazbek and Billy Strauss, executive produced by Kurt Deutsch. Yazbek is also the lyricist and composer. This album was chosen as one of Amazon.com's Top 100 Editor's Picks of 2005. On April 27, 2005, thousands stood in line at the Imperial Theatre to get free copies of the CD. Several members of the Broadway cast, as well as David Yazbek, were on hand to sign copies. John Lithgow: "Lawrence Jameson" Norbert Leo Butz: "Freddy Benson" Sherie Rene Scott: "Christine Colgate" Joanna

neg: Cast recording cast recordings for five shows of which David Geffen was an investor. It released the original off-Broadway cast recording and the film soundtrack of "Little Shop of Horrors", the original Broadway cast recordings of "Dreamgirls", "Les Misérables", and "Cats". Geffen also released the London cast recordings of "Cats" and "Miss Saigon" in the USA. Now almost all of the Geffen cast albums are released through the Decca Broadway label. PS Classic – In a few years PS Classics has built a substantial catalogue of cast albums including "Grey Gardens", "A Year with Frog and Toad" and the revivals of "110

neg: Company (musical) travelled to London to reprise their roles, Columbia Records took Kert into the studio to record new vocal tracks. This "new" recording featuring the new vocals laid over the original Broadway backing tracks was released as the Original London Cast recording. In 1998, when Sony Music who had acquired the Columbia catalogues, released a newly digitalized CD version of the original Broadway cast recording, Kert's rendition of "Being Alive," the show's final number, was included as a bonus track. There are also cast recordings of the 1995 Broadway and London productions and the 2006 Broadway production. The 2018 London revival

neg: Groundhog Day (musical) Phil wakes to find Rita still in his room and a fresh layer of snow covering the ground outside. Though overjoyed at finally being able to leave, Phil agrees to spend the day with Rita. They start their day with watching the sun rise in Punxsutawney on 3 February ("Dawn"). The original Broadway cast album was recorded in March 2017 and was released digitally on 21 April and in stores 5 May 2017. The album is available from Broadway / Masterworks and is produced by Chris Nightingale, Michael Croiter and Tim Minchin. The songs "Hope", "If I Had My Time

neg: Raisin higher antioxidant capacity than sun-dried black raisins do. Raisin A raisin is a dried grape. Raisins are produced in many regions of the world and may be eaten raw or used in cooking, baking, and brewing. In the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia, the word "raisin" is reserved for the dark-colored dried large grape, with "sultana" being a golden-colored dried grape, and "currant" being a dried small Black Corinth seedless grape. The word "raisin" dates back to Middle English and is a loanword from Old French; in modern French, "raisin" means "grape", while a dried grape is a

neg: Sun-Maid earlier of company employee Delia von Meyer (Pacheco). Collett continued to make special appearances as the original Sun-Maid Girl until her death at the age of 90. The current version was created in 1970 by John Lichtenwalner, a freelance commercial artist in San Francisco. Lichtenwalner, a graduate of Art Center in Los Angeles, used the previous versions of the Sun-Maid Girl to create a cleaner version of the character. The model for the updated portrait was a young actress/model, Liz Weide. The portrait was centered over a figurative sunburst. The artwork, sold as piecework to the Sun-Maid Raisin Co., has

neg: Julio Agustin national tour of "Kiss of the Spider Woman" from 1994-1996, where he worked with Chita Rivera. He booked his first Broadway show shortly afterwards. In 1997, he performed as a swing for the Original Broadway Cast of "Steel Pier" at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. A few years later, Agustin performed as a company member for the Original Broadway Cast of "Fosse" at the Broadhurst Theatre. Agustin would work on this show from 1999-2001 with names such as Elizabeth Parkinson and Scott Wise. Nearly immediately after working in "Chicago", Agustin jumped straight into performing in the Original Broadway Cast of "Bells