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Robert Cummings

Shows · Robert Cummings

ActorComposer b. 1965 On stage 19061951

Robert Bartleh Cummings (born January 12, 1965), known professionally as Rob Zombie, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, filmmaker, and actor. His music and lyrics are notable for their horror and sci-fi themes, and his live shows have been praised for their elaborate shock rock theatricality. He has sold an estimated 15 million albums worldwide. He rose to fame as a founding member and the frontman of heavy metal band White Zombie, with whom he released five studio albums and one techno remix album. His first solo effort, the 1996 song "Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn)" (with Alice Cooper), was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. His debut solo studio alb…

On stage 24 productions, 45 years

1906 Pippa Passes Majestic Theatre · Original 9 perf.
1906 The Great Divide Princess Theatre · Original 238 perf.
1908 The Winterfeast Savoy Theatre · Original 16 perf.
1917 Broken Threads Fulton Theatre · Original 56 perf.
1917 The Gipsy Trail Plymouth Theatre · Original 111 perf.
1918 A Trench Fantasy Plymouth Theatre · Original 19 perf.
1919 His Honor: Abe Potash Bijou Theatre · Original 215 perf.
1921 Nemesis Hudson Theatre · Original · directed by John Meehan 56 perf.
1922 Fools Errant Maxine Elliotts Theatre · Original · directed by B. Iden Payne 64 perf.
1922 Frank Fay's Fables Park Theatre · Original · directed by Kuy Kendall 32 perf.
1922 The Fool Times Square Theatre · Original 272 perf.
1923 The Song and Dance Man Hudson Theatre · Original 96 perf.
1924 The Desert Flower Longacre Theatre · Revival 31 perf.
1925 Something To Brag About Booth Theatre · Original 4 perf.
1925 The Piker Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre · Original · directed by Priestly Morrison 44 perf.
1926 Down Stream 48th Street Theatre · Original 16 perf.
1926 Still Waters Henry Millers Theatre · Original 16 perf.
1926 The Woman Disputed Forrest Theatre · Original · directed by Crane Wilbur 87 perf.
1927 The Trial of Mary Dugan National Theatre · Original · directed by A.H. Van Buren 437 perf.
1929 Congratulations National Theatre · Original · directed by Edward Clarke Lilley 39 perf.
1931 She Means Business Ritz Theatre · Original · directed by Frederick Stanhope 8 perf.
1931 The Man on Stilts Plymouth Theatre · Original 6 perf.
1933 Murder at the Vanities New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by Burk Symon 207 perf.
1951 Faithfully Yours Coronet Theatre · Original · directed by Richard Whorf 68 perf.

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Worked with more than once12 names

Ernest Glendinning 3 productions
Cyril Keightley 3 productions
William J Butler 2 productions
Roland Young 2 productions
Rex Cherryman 2 productions
Mildred Southwick 2 productions
Lowell Sherman 2 productions
Louis Calhern 2 productions
John Ravold 2 productions
Henry B Walthall 2 productions
Eleanor Woodruff 2 productions
Edith Wynne Matthison 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. 12 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.

In the literature2 passages

  • Cast: Fanny Brice, Willie & Eugene Howard, Everett Mashall, Jane Froman, Vilma & Buddy Ebsen, Patricia Bowman, Cherry & June Preisser, Eve Arden, Robert Cummings, Ina Ray Huttonebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • (Top) Le complexe de Philemon, Theatre Montpamasse, Paris. [French Cultural Services] (Bottom) Robert Cummings and Ann Sothem in Faithfully Yours, adapted from Le complexe de Philemon. New York, Coronet Theatre, 1951. [Photograph by Vandamm]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 1 (A-C).txt

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