Eileen Brennan

On stage 2 productions, 1 years

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

In the literature8 passages

• By choosing comedians to play Cornelius Hackl and Irene Molloy, the director broke with the straight portrayal of romantic figures conventional in farce and musicals. This interpretation would also influence the way the roles would be sung. As Herman recalls, “Gower didn’t want to go for a typical baritone and lovely soprano.” 56 By pairi…ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
• In rehearsal, Gower decided against using a real mirror. Instead, he seated Eileen Brennan on a revolving stool before the audience and had her peer into an imaginary mirror to model a simple, beribboned straw boater. 133 “The mirror was his whole ‘kickoff’ for the number,” Brennan explains. “Then he directed me to get the hat to fall a c…ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
• Herman, Jerry. Hello, Dolly! Original Broadway cast recording with Carol Channing, David Burns, Charles Nelson Reilly, Eileen Brennan, and Sondra Lee. Cond. Shepard Coleman. Jacket notes Daniel Guss. RCA Victor compact disc, LSOD-1087: 1964, 2003. Based on Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker.ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
• Little Mary Sunshine was a witty, melodious takeoff on the Rose-Marie school of robust heroics and excessively ardent love songs. Its engagement at the Orpheum Theatre on lower 2nd Avenue is currently the seventh longest of any Off-Broadway musical. Set in the Colorado Rockies early in the century, the tale is primarily concerned with Mar…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Cast: Carol Channing, David Burns, Eileen Brennan, Sondra Lee, Charles Nelson Reilly, Jerry Dodge, Gordon Connell, Igors Gavon, Alice Playten, David Hartmanebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Harold Lang, Dody Goodman, and Buster Keaton, two companies of “Gypsy” with Ethel Merman and Mary McCarthy, Juanita Hall in “Flower Drum Song,” Eileen Brennan in “The Miracle Worker,” Joan Blondell and Bill Hayes in “Bye Bye Birdie,’ Constance Bennett and Patricia Jessel in “Toys In The Attic,” Florence Henderson in ‘The Sound of Music,”…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

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