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Adelaide Hall, Josephine Premice, Joe Adams, and Erik Rhodes bios in the Jamaica souvenir program. The musical opened in Philadelphia. [2] Later, it moved to Broadway, opening at the Imperial Theatre on October 31, 1957 and closed on April 11, 1959 after 558 performances.
Jamaica (musical) K. Katharina Knie (musical) M. The Music Man; My Fur Lady; N. New Girl in Town; P. Pinocchio (1957 TV program) R. Rumple (musical) S. Shinbone Alley ...
She made her Broadway debut in the musical Jamaica in 1957 as a replacement for Adelaide Hall in the role of ... Capers was a familiar face to television audiences.
NBC's Kraft Television Theatre, which had debuted in 1947 and was the oldest program still left on television, was cancelled in spring 1958. It was the dawn of a new era in television; producer David Susskind, who had produced KTT at the end, would call 1958 "the year of the miserable drivel". [1] New fall series are highlighted in bold.
The year 1957 in television involved some significant events. ... Country Music Jubilee (1955–1960) Dixon of Dock Green (UK) (1955–1976) Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical; Robert Preston – The Music Man as Harold Hill. Eddie Foy Jr. – Rumple as Rumple; Ricardo Montalbán – Jamaica as Koli; Tony Randall – Oh, Captain! as Captain Henry St. James; Thelma Ritter – New Girl in Town as Marthy Owen (tie)
Harry Belafonte (/ ˌ b ɛ l ə ˈ f ɒ n t i / BEL-ə-FON-tee; born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s.
In 1957, she made her off-Broadway debut in the Langston Hughes musical, Simply Heavenly. [4] Later that year, she debuted on Broadway in the multiple Tony Award -nominated musical, Jamaica as an understudy for Lena Horne (also making her Broadway debut).