Danny Kaye

On stage 6 productions, 31 years

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In the literature8 passages

• I was involved with two failed Broadway tryouts during this time. One was a musical based on the Danny Kaye movie musical Hans Christian Andersen— we opened and closed in San Francisco. The other was Paper Doll , a new play about the life and times of author Jacqueline Susann and her dog, Josephine. It starred Marlo Thomas and F. Murray A…ebooks/Berloni, Bill/Broadway Tails_ Heartfelt Stories of Rescued Dogs Who Became Showbiz Superstars - Bill Berloni & Jim Hanrahan.txt
• Lady in the Dark . “Circus Dream.” Gertrude Lawrence sitting on the left, Danny Kaye on the horse at right (1941). Photograph: Vandamm Studio. Museum of the City of New York. Theater Collection. Gift of the Burns Mantle Estate.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Original cast (1941): Kurt Weill from Berlin to Broadway , Vol. 1 (Pearl/Pavilion): Gertrude Lawrence, Danny Kaye. Contents: “Oh, Fabulous One,” “Huxley,” “Girl of the Moment,” “One Life to Live,” “The Is New,” “The Princess of Pure Delight,” “It’s Never Too Late to Mendelssohn,” “Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians),” “The Saga of Jenny,” a…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• 68 . When Danny Kaye left the show and his role as Russell Paxton, his replacement proved difficult. Within two weeks after Gershwin wrote Weill that Rex O’Malley “is too lady-like for the lady-like characters and may make the character far too realistic,” the production staff bought out his contract. See the letter from Ira Gershwin to K…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Joe and I had been huge fans of The Danny Kaye Show , and particularly of his incredibly talented second banana, Harvey Korman. Harvey was to Danny what Carl Reiner was to Sid Caesar and Art Carney was to Jackie Gleason. “Second banana” is a term that has been used in comedy as far back as I can remember. It probably dates back to vaudevi…ebooks/Burnett, Carol/This Time Together - Carol Burnett.txt
• Danny Kaye’s show went off the air in 1967 and we were premiering that fall. All I could think was, We need a Harvey Korman . We needed a consummate actor with comedy chops to spare. The penny finally dropped, the lightbulb lit up, and I came to the brilliant conclusion to actually ask THE Harvey Korman himself if he would work with us. N…ebooks/Burnett, Carol/This Time Together - Carol Burnett.txt

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