- Frank Loesser
Frank Henry Loesser was an American composer and lyricist. He died of lung cancer at age 59. During World War II, he wrote 1942's "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition". Formerly a successful lyricist in collaboration with other composers, this was the first song for which Loesser composed the melody in addition to the lyric. Loesser was awarded a Grammy Award in 1961 for Best Original Cast Show Album for "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying". - Damon Runyon
Damon Runyon was a newspaperman and writer. He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. He spun humorous tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors and gangsters; few of whom go by "square" names, preferring instead to be known as "Nathan Detroit", "Big Jule", "Harry the Horse", "Good Time Charley", "Dave the Dude", and so on. - Chita Rivera
Chita Rivera (born January 23 1933) is a Tony Award-winning American actress, dancer, and singer known for her musical theater roles. She was born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero in Washington, D.C. to a Puerto Rican father who played clarinet and saxophone for the Navy band and a mother of mostly Scottish and Italian descent, who went to work for The Pentagon when she was widowed when Chita was seven-years-old (she died in 1983). - Vivian Blaine
Vivian Blaine (born 21 November 1921 in Newark, New Jersey; died 9 December 1995 in New York, New York) was an actress and singer best known for originating the role of Miss Adelaide in the musical theater production "Guys and Dolls". Born Vivian Stapleton, the cherry-blonde-haired Blaine appeared on local stages as early as 1924 and was a touring singer with dance bands starting in 1937. - Abe Burrows
Abe Burrows, was a noted American humorist, author, and director for radio and the stage, particularly Broadway. He was born Abram Solman Borowitz in New York City, graduated from New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn and attended both City College and New York University. He began working as a runner on Wall Street runner while at NYU, and he also worked in an accounting firm. - Michael Grandage
Michael Grandage is a British theatre director who is currently Artistic Director at the Donmar Warehouse in London, England. He made his directorial debut with a production of "Last Yankee" at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester. From 2000 – 2005 he served as Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres where his high profile productions included "Edward II" with Joseph Fiennes, "Richard III" with Kenneth Branagh and "The Tempest" with Derek Jacobi. - Faith Prince
Faith Prince (born August 5, 1957) is an award-winning American actress and singer known primarily for her work on Broadway. She was born in Augusta, Georgia and raised in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she dabbled in theater at E.C. Glass High School. She made her Broadway debut in "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" (1989) and followed this with a role in the ill-fated "Nick & Nora". - Jo Swerling
Jo Swerling (April 8, 1897 - October 23, 1964) was an American theatre writer and lyricist and a screenwriter. Born in Bardichov, Russia, Swerling was a refugee of the Czarist regime who grew up on New York City's lower East Side, where he sold newspapers to help support his family. He worked as a newspaper and magazine writer in the early 1920s, then launched a playwriting career, including "Street Cinderella," an early comedy for the Marx Brothers. - Stubby Kaye
Stubby Kaye (November 11, 1918 - December 14, 1997) was an American comic actor. He was born Bernard Sholm Kotzin in New York on West 114th Street in the Morningside Heights Section of Manhattan to first generation Jewish Americans originally from Russia and Austria. He was raised in the Far Rockaway section of Queens and in the Bronx. Kaye is best known for defining the role of Nicely-Nicely Johnson in "Guys and Dolls", … - Douglas Hodge
Douglas Hodge (born 1960 in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK) is a British actor. Some of his TV appearances include leading roles in "Bliss", "Middlemarch, "The Uninvited", "The Scold's Bridle", "Shockers: Dance", "The Law", "The Russian Bride", "Capital City" and "Red Cap". Hodge has also achieved great success on stage as a performer recently in the work of playwright Harold Pinter (e.g., … - Darius Danesh
Darius Danesh (born 19 August 1980 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a songwriter, platinum recording artist and acclaimed West End stage actor, well-known from the British TV hit shows "Popstars", and "Pop Idol", the latter being the model from which "American Idol" was born. His first, self-penned single, "Colourblind", entered the UK singles chart at number one, … - Robert Keith
Robert Keith (February 10, 1896/8 - December 22, 1966) was an actor who appeared in several dozen films, mostly in the 1950s as a character actor. His birth name was Rolland Keith Richey. He may be best known for his work in the 1955 musical "Guys and Dolls" and the 1953 film "The Wild One". He also had a Starring role in Douglas Sirk's "Written on the Wind". - Des McAnuff
Des McAnuff (born June 19, 1952 in Princeton, Illinois) is a Tony award-winning director of such hit Broadway musicals as "Big River" and "The Who's Tommy". He has also produced Tony award-winning revivals of Broadway classics like "Guys and Dolls", "The Music Man", "Into the Woods", "42nd Street", "The King and I", and many others. - Robert Alda
Robert Alda born Alfonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo, was an American actor and father of actor Alan Alda. Alda, an Italian American was born in New York City, the son of Anthony Alda (who Robert Alda's son was named after) and Frances T. D'Abruzzo. He started out as a singer and dancer in vaudeville after winning a talent contest. Following brief work in vaudeville he moved onto burlesque. - Richard Eyre
Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre CBE (born 28 March, 1943) is an English theatre, television, film director. - Jenna Russell
Jenna Russell (born 5 October 1967) is an English actress and occassional singer. She appeared as Maggie in the comedy "On The Up" After three shows at The Bridewell theatre (On A Clear Day, Hello Again & The Cutting Edge) she left the cast of Songs For a New World during rehearsal in order to play Deborah Gilder in Born and Bred. In 2005 she appeared as the Floor Manager in the "Doctor Who" episodes "Bad Wolf" and "The Parting of the Ways". - Isabel Bigley
Isabel Bigley (23 February, 1926 - 30 September, 2006) was a Tony-winning musical theatre star. Born in The Bronx, New York City, NY, Bigley is best remembered for originating the part of Sarah Brown in Frank Loesser's masterpiece "Guys and Dolls". In 1951, she had been playing the role of Laurey in the London production of "Oklahoma!" when she was offered the role of Sarah Brown, the "mission doll," in "Guys and Dolls". - Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd is an Australian actor, best-known for his stint as Neville McPhee, one of the original characters of the Australian television soap opera "Home and Away". In a career spanning more than forty years, Lloyd appeared on radio, theatre, television and film. Lloyd's first roles stemmed from his after-school job as an office boy at 2GB, where he was sometimes asked to appear in radio plays. - Walter Bobbie
Walter Bobbie (born on 18 November 1945 in Scranton, Pennsylvania) is a dancer, choreographer, director and occasional actor. He attended The Catholic University of America (CUA), at around the same time as Oscar winning actress Susan Sarandon. Bobbie created the role of "Roger" in the original Broadway production of "Grease", and he also starred on Broadway as "Nicely-Nicely Johnson" in the 1992 revival of "Guys and Dolls" starring Nathan Lane, … - Cy Feuer
Cy Feuer was an American producer, director, composer, and musician. Born Seymour Arnold Feuer in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at the Juilliard School before joining the orchestras at Radio City Music Hall and the Roxy Theater as a trumpeter. In 1938, he headed to Hollywood, where he found employment at Republic Pictures, serving as musical director and/or composer of more than 125 mostly B-movies for the next decade, … - Sam Levene
Sam Levene was an American Broadway and film actor. Born in Russia, Levene appeared in several Broadway plays and musicals in the 1930s. In the mid-30s, he moved to Hollywood to re-create his stage role in the movie "Three Men on a Horse", followed by "After the Thin Man", both in 1936. He also appeared in many film noir classics including "The Killers (1946 film)", "Brute Force", and "Crossfire". - Maurice Hines
Maurice Hines (born 1943) is an American actor, director, jazz singer and choreographer. Born in New York City, Hines began his career at the age of five, studying tap dance at the Henry LeTang Dance Studio in Manhattan. LeTang recognized his talent and began choreographing numbers specifically for him and his younger brother Gregory. He made his Broadway debut in "The Girl in Pink Tights" in 1954. - David Garrison
David Garrison (born June 30, 1952 in Long Branch, New Jersey) is an American actor, who played the character Steve Rhoades on the television show, "Married... with Children" from 1987 to 1990. Before this role, he had starred with Jason Bateman on the sitcom "It's Your Move" (1984 - 1985). Although he is most widely known for his television roles and he continues to be seen frequently in guest starring roles on television today, … - Amy Nuttall
Amy Nuttall (born June 7 1982 in Bolton) is a British Actress and Singer most notable for playing the role of Chloe Atkinson in the long-running ITV soap opera "Emmerdale" from 2000 to 2005. Nuttall trained at the The Arts Educational Schools and with the National Youth Music Theatre. She is credited as the youngest actress to play the lead role of Christine in "The Phantom of the Opera" (at age 16), has sung at the Royal Albert Hall, … - Julia McKenzie
Julia McKenzie is a British actress and theatre director. In London’s West End her performing credits include "Guys and Dolls" (Miss Adelaide) and "Sweeney Todd" (Mrs Lovett), winning the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for both, and "Woman in Mind" for which she received the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress. - Robert Guillaume
Robert Guillaume (born November 30, 1927) is an acclaimed Tony Award-nominated and two-time Emmy Award-winning American stage and television actor, perhaps best known for portraying the character Benson DuBois. - Oliver Smith
Oliver Smith was one of the most distinguished and prolific Tony Award-winning scenic designers in American theatre history. Born in Waupun, Wisconsin, Smith attended Penn State, after which he moved to New York City and began to form friendships that blossomed into working relationships with such talents as Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Carson McCullers, and Agnes de Mille. - Ken Page
Ken Page (born in January 20, 1954) is an American singer and actor from St. Louis, Missouri, best known as the voice of the evil bag of bugs Oogie Boogie in Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and the "Kingdom Hearts" series, and for playing Old Deuteronomy in the original Broadway and video cast of "Cats". After making his Broadway debut in "The Wiz", … - Arnold Rothstein
Arnold Rothstein (January 17, 1882 - November 4, 1928) was a New York businessman and gambler, chiefly famous for his role as a kingpin of organized crime. He is also widely reputed to have been behind baseball's Black Sox Scandal in which the 1919 World Series was fixed. His notoriety inspired several fictional characters based on his life, including "Meyer Wolfsheim" in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby", … - Veda Ann Borg
Veda Ann Borg (11 January, 1915-16 August, 1973) was an American film actress. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Borg was the daughter of Gottfried Borg, a Swedish immigrant and Minna Noble. She became a model in 1936 before winning a contract at Paramount Pictures. A car crash in 1939 necessitated drastic reconstruction of her face by plastic surgery. She appeared in some 100 film roles, mostly in B-films, but occasionally in small roles in A-films, … - Burke Moses
Burke Moses (b. 12 December 1964) is an American actor. He first appeared on Broadway as a replacement in the role of Sky Masterson in the 1992 production of "Guys and Dolls". He originated the role of Gaston in "Beauty and the Beast" in 1994 on Broadway, and also in London's West End production in 1997. He replaced Brian Stokes Mitchell in the roles of Fred Graham and Petruchio in the 1999 revival of "Kiss Me, Kate", … - Gretchen Wyler
Gretchen Wyler (February 16, 1932 - May 27, 2007), was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma as Gretchen Patricia Wienecke. She was raised in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where her father was an engineer. She opened her own dancing school there before heading east to New York to pursue a professional career as an actress and dancer. - Anita Gillette
Anita Gillette (Born August 16 1936) is a Tony Award-nominated American actress, most notable for her work on Broadway and as a celebrity guest on various game shows. Born Anita Leubben in Baltimore, Maryland, Gillette studied at the Peabody Conservatory and made her Broadway debut in "Gypsy" in 1959. Additional Broadway credits include "Carnival!", "All American", "Mr. - Martin Vidnovic
Martin Vidnovic (born January 4 1948) is an American actor and singer. Born in Falls Church, Virginia, Vidnovic made his Broadway debut in the ill-fated "Home Sweet Homer" (1976) which, following a one-year tour, closed on opening night. He fared better with his next three projects, revivals of "The King and I" (1977), "Oklahoma!" (1979), and "Brigadoon" (1980). - Cyril J. Mockridge
Cyril J. Mockridge (August 6, 1896 - January 18, 1979) was a film music composer who worked on such films as "Nightmare Alley" and "Road House". Cyril Mockridge was nominated for an Academy Award for the 1955 film "Guys and Dolls" and also composed the music for television's "Lost in Space". - Jo Mielziner
Jo Mielziner (1901-1976) was an American theatrical scenic, costume, and lighting designer born in Paris, France. He is considered one of the most influential theatre designers of the 20th century, designing the scenery and often the lighting for over 200 productions, many of which became American classics. His Broadway debut was in 1924 with "The Guardsman", in which he designed the scenery and lighting. - Graham Bickley
Graham Bickley is a British based actor, best known as the second incarnation of the character Joey Boswell in Carla Lane's "Bread". Bickley has worked extensively in the West End including appearing in "Tateh in Ragtime" at the Piccadilly Theatre for which he received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor. In concert, his performances have included "Guys and Dolls" (Royal Festival Hall, Vienna Konzerthaus), … - Nigel Lindsay
Nigel Lindsay left the City in the late 1980s to train as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy. In theatre, he has appeared opposite Sarah Lancashire as Nathan Detroit in "Guys and Dolls" at the Piccadilly; at the National in two award-winning productions, "Dealers' Choice" by Patrick Marber and "The Pillowman" by Martin McDonagh; and on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing" which won three Tony awards. - Julie Bowen
Julie Bowen (born March 3, 1970) is an American film and television actress. - Peter Gennaro
Peter Gennaro (November 23, 1919 - September 28, 2000) was a Tony Award-winning American dancer and choreographer. Born in Metairie, Louisiana, Gennaro made his Broadway debut in the ensemble of "Make Mine Manhattan" in 1948. He followed this with "Kiss Me, Kate" (1948) and "Guys and Dolls" (1950). He first drew notice from theatergoers as a member of the trio that danced the Bob Fosse number "Steam Heat" in "The Pajama Game" (1954), …
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