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Dana Ivey

Shows · Dana Ivey

Actor b. 1941 On stage 19812011

Dana Ivey (born August 12, 1941) is an American retired actress. She is known for her work on Broadway, earning the 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her work in both Sex and Longing and The Last Night of Ballyhoo. She originated the title role in Driving Miss Daisy and was nominated for a Drama Desk award for Best Actress in a Play. She received five Tony Award nominations for her roles in Sunday in the Park with George (1984), Heartbreak House (1984), The Last Night of Ballyhoo (1997), The Rivals (2005), and Butley (2007). On film, she has acted in The Color Purple (1985), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), The Addams Family (1991), Home Alone 2: Lost in New…

On stage 17 productions, 30 years

1981 Macbeth Vivian Beaumont Theater · Revival · directed by Sarah Caldwell 61 perf.
1982 Present Laughter Circle In The Square Theatre · Revival · directed by George C. Scott 179 perf.
1983 Heartbreak House Circle In The Square Theatre · Revival · directed by Anthony Page 65 perf.
1984 Sunday in the Park with George Booth Theatre · Original · directed by James Lapine 604 perf.
1985 Pack of Lies Royale Theatre · Original · directed by Clifford Williams 120 perf.
1985 The Marriage of Figaro Circle In The Square Theatre · Revival · directed by Andrei Serban 77 perf.
1994 Sunday in the Park with George St James Theatre · Revival 1 perf.
1995 Indiscretions Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Original · directed by Sean Mathias 220 perf.
1996 Sex and Longing Cort Theatre · Original · directed by Garland Wright 46 perf.
1997 The Last Night of Ballyhoo Helen Hayes Theatre · Original · directed by Ron Lagomarsino 556 perf.
1999 Waiting in the Wings Walter Kerr Theatre · Original · directed by Michael Langham 186 perf.
2001 Major Barbara American Airlines Theatre · Revival · directed by Daniel Sullivan 74 perf.
2003 A Day in the Death of Joe Egg American Airlines Theatre · Revival · directed by Adam Kenwright 69 perf.
2003 Henry IV Vivian Beaumont Theater · Revival · directed by Jack O'Brien 58 perf.
2004 The Rivals Vivian Beaumont Theater · Revival · directed by Mark Lamos 45 perf.
2006 Butley Booth Theatre · Revival · directed by Nicholas Martin 94 perf.
2011 The Importance of Being Earnest American Airlines Theatre · Revival · directed by Brian Bedford 189 perf.

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Worked with more than once12 names

Rosemary Harris 3 productions
William Parry 2 productions
Richard Easton 2 productions
Peter Michael Goetz 2 productions
Nancy Opel 2 productions
Melanie Vaughan 2 productions
Mary D Arcy 2 productions
Mandy Patinkin 2 productions
Kurt Knudson 2 productions
Kaiulani Lee 2 productions
John Jellison 2 productions
Jeff Keller 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 8 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

Also credited on3 works

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Legally Blonde
The Addams Family

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In the literature8 passages

  • Original cast (1984) : Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Charles Kimbrough, Barbara Bryne, Dana Ivey, Paul Gemignani (conductor). RCA HBC1–5042.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
  • FILM (Brandman Productions, 1986) : Cast: Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Charles Kimbrough, Barbara Bryne, Dana Ivey. Produced by Iris Merlis. Directed for the Broadway stage by James Lapine; directed for television by Terry Hughes. Paul Gemignani (conducter). [146 minutes]ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
  • Cast: Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Charles Kimbrough, Barbara Bryne, Dana Ivey, William Parry, Robert Westenbergebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • The next show that came along was Heartbreak House , starring Rex Harrison, Amy Irving, Rosemary Harris, Dana Ivey, and Philip Bosco. They weren’t going to need anyone at TKTS for that show, so they put me to work in the subscription office.ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 1, The - Jennifer Tepper.txt
  • George (Mandy Patinkin) sketching the Boatman (William Parry); in background, Yvonne (Dana Ivey), Louise (Danielle Ferland, Jules (Charles Kimbrough), Nurse (Judith Moore), Old Lady (Barbara Bryne), Louis (Cris Groenendaal) and Dot (Bernadette Peters)ebooks/Unknown/Four by Sondheim (Applause Musical Library) - Unknown.txt
  • ANTHONY HEALD, REMAK RAMSEY, DANA IVEY, KELSEY GRAMMER JOHN CUNNINGHAM, ROY POOLE, CAROLINE LAGERFELTtheatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

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