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Danny Meehan

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Actor 1933–1978 On stage 19581976

Danny Meehan (1933–1978) was an American actor who appeared in the original Broadway cast of Funny Girl (1964) opposite Barbra Streisand, and in Burgess Meredith's staging of Ulysses in Nighttown.

On stage 5 productions, 18 years

1958 Whoop-Up Shubert · Original · directed by Cy Feuer 56 perf.
1964 Funny Girl Winter Garden Theatre · Original · directed by Jerome Robbins, Garson Kanin 1,348 perf.
1974 Jule's Friends at the Palace Palace Theatre · Original · directed by Fritz Holt 1 perf.
1974 Ulysses in Nighttown Winter Garden Theatre · Original · directed by Burgess Meredith 69 perf.
1976 The Poison Tree Ambassador Theatre · Original · directed by Charles Blackwell 5 perf.

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Worked with more than once2 names

Kay Medford 2 productions
Beulah Garrick 2 productions

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In the literature6 passages

  • Funny Girl. Barbra Streisand singing “I’m the Greatest Star” as Danny Meehan watches. (Henry Grossman)ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Barbra Streisand, Sydney Chaplin, Kay Medford, Danny Meehan, Jean Stapleton, Roger DeKoven, Joseph Macaulay, Lainie Kazan, Buzz Miller, George Reeder, Larry Fullerebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • A rare glimpse of the Funny Girl company before their Boston preview, December 1963. Danny Meehan, Allyn Ann McLerie, Sydney Chaplin, and Barbra listen to director Garson Kanin. Within the month, Meehan's part would be marginalized and McLerie's would be cut entirely. Kanin would be fired after the show premiered in Boston. Photofestebooks/Mann, William J_/Hello, Gorgeous_ Becoming Barbra Streisand - William J. Mann.txt
  • She’d run away with all the personal reviews, though a few critics had also offered kind words about Kay Medford, Danny Meehan, and even Sydney, who Chapman thought gave a “poised and likeable performance.” But Barbra dominated, and the magnitude of her performance was so blinding that critics truly didn’t care that the book remained fund…ebooks/Mann, William J_/Hello, Gorgeous_ Becoming Barbra Streisand - William J. Mann.txt
  • Danny Meehan Pavior & Flagger/Orator/Elijah Sprawled Figure/Mrs. Breen/Mrs. Barry/Old Resident/Mrs. Riordan/Mrs. Thornton/Bella Cohen/ Pianola Beulah Garrick Barbara Blair Child/Gnome/Whore/Female Infant/Yew Child/Wellington/Davy Stephens/Acolyte/ Attendant/Rudy Idiot/Gladstone/Balladeer/Attendanttheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (Willis).txt
  • Top Right: Fionnuala Flanagan, Danny Meehan, Beulah Garrick, Zero Mostel (also below) Right Center: Kevin O'Leary, Zero Mostel,theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (Willis).txt

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