Jack Klugman

On stage 9 productions, 45 years

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Worked with more than once3 names

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In the literature8 passages

• Act One: “May We Entertain You” (Jacqueline Mayro, Karen Moore); “Some People” (Ethel Merman); “Traveling” (a mostly pantomimed sequence with underscoring of “Some People”) (Ethel Merman, Jacqueline Mayro, Karen Moore, Ensemble); “Small World” (Ethel Merman, Jack Klugman); “Baby June and Her Newsboys” (Jacqueline Mayro, Karen Moore, Bobby…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Tony Award Nominations : Best Musical (Gypsy ); Best Leading Actress in a Musical (Ethel Merman); Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Jack Klugman); Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Sandra Church); Best Director of a Musical (Jerome Robbins); Best Conductor and Musical Director (Milton Rosenstock); Best Scenic Designer for a Musical (Jo…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Cast: Ethel Merman, Jack Klugman, Sandra Church, Lane Bradbury, Maria Karnilova, Paul Wallace, Jacqueline Mayro, Karen Moore, Joe Silverebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• For Gypsy , Ethel’s male lead was the non-singing Jack Klugman, pre-TV stardom. During his audition he’d feared having to compete with the big Merman sound during their duet, “Small World.” Director Jerome Robbins begged Ethel to for once lower the volume, which she did. “She sang so softly, so un-Mermanly,” offered composer Jule Styne, “…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
• Merman was more legitimately aggrieved when asked to play a recurring role on Jack Klugman’s TV series The Odd Couple . She’d ordered her agent to “get me some of that dough they’re throwing around at all those second-rate actors out there” in Los Angeles, where she did appear on Batman as villainess Lola Lasagna. Ethel was enraged and st…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
• • When Ethel Merman’s leading man Jack Klugman sought to invest in Gypsy , Merrick replied, “You don’t want to invest in this. It’s going to be a bomb. If you want to invest in a musical, invest in Destry ,” an ill-fated show starring a pre-TV Andy Griffith and Dolores Gray. Co-producer Leland Hayward and Gypsy composer Jule Styne overhea…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt

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