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Lauri Peters (also known as Patti Peterson [1] ) is an American actress and dancer in theatre, film, and television.
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Lauri Peters (also known as Patti Peterson [1] ) is an American actress and dancer in theatre, film, and television.
Lauri Peters was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Peterson. [1] She has three older brothers, Harold Jr., Victor, and Sidney. The Peterson family moved to Cleveland, Ohio when Peters was a year old. [2] Having studied dance from a young age, Peters moved to New York City as a teenager to pursue ballet. She was known as Patti Peterson.
Peters made her Broadway debut in 1958 as a replacement in the children's ensemble in Say, Darling. She was credited as Laurie Peterson (there was already a Patti Peterson registered with Actors Equity). [1] Say, Darling closed in January 1959, and two months later she opened in her second Broadway show, First Impressions, this time billed as Lauri Peters. [3] In the fall of 1959, Peters created the role of Liesl Von Trapp in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music . She received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, which she shared with her sibling castmates. She was married to actor Jon Voight (1962–67), whom she met when he joined the cast as Nazi messenger boy Rolfe, with whom Liesl shares a song ("Sixteen Going on Seventeen") and an attraction. She can be heard on the show's cast album, which has sold more than three million copies in the US.
In Britain, she is probably best known as Cliff Richard's romantic lead in the 1963 film Summer Holiday . On film, she also acted alongside Fabian, James Stewart, and Sidney Poitier.
She appeared as Moll in the 1964 off-Broadway revival of Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock directed by Howard Da Silva. [4]
Although she worked primarily in the theater, on and off Broadway, and in touring companies, she also appeared on popular television shows of the 1960s and '70s, including Gunsmoke , where she was featured as "Allie", an innocent girl stuck in a poor family of eight (with a father and brother who were future-less lazy, whiners), yet she somehow remained kind and caring, as well as falling hard for her heartthrob, Marshal Dillon in the episode "Take Her, She's Cheap" (S10E6).
That was after her first starring role on Gunsmoke in 1964 (S9E20) as the title character "Mayblossom", portraying Festus's cousin (who was promised to him for marriage), but who also falls prey to being violated by a townsman.
With acting teacher Sanford Meisner, Peters founded the Meisner Extension at New York University in 1993, where she was artistic director and master teacher. Teaching the technique away from Manhattan, she has written a book on Meisner.[ citation needed ]
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| 1961 | Camera Three | Season 6 Episode 40: "Evocations of Love" | |
| 1962 | Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation | Katey Hobbs | |
| 1963 | Summer Holiday | Barbara | |
| 1963 | The Nurses | Lauri Perrault | Season 1 Episode 28: "Choice Among Wrongs" |
| 1964 | Gunsmoke | Mayblossom / Allie | 2 episodes |
| 1967 | The Road West | Sarah | Season 1 Episode 15: "Reap the Whirlwind" |
| 1968 | For Love of Ivy | Gena Austin | |
| 1972 | Ghost Story | Mariah Hollis | Season 1 Episode 9: "Cry of the Cat" |
| 1973 | Search | Trudi Hauser | Season 1 Episode 15: "Numbered for Death" |
| 1973 | The Delphi Bureau | Jackdaw | Season 1 Episode 5: "The Terror Broker Project" |
The Sound of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the 1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. Set in Austria on the eve of the Anschluss in 1938, the musical tells the story of Maria, who takes a job as governess to a large family while she decides whether to become a nun. She falls in love with the children, and eventually their widowed father, Captain von Trapp. He is ordered to accept a commission in the German Navy, but he opposes the Nazis. He and Maria decide on a plan to flee Austria with the children. Many songs from the musical have become standards, including "Do-Re-Mi", "My Favorite Things", "Edelweiss", "Climb Ev'ry Mountain", and the title song "The Sound of Music".
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Annie Get Your Gun is a 1946 musical with lyrics and music by Irving Berlin and a book by Dorothy Fields and her brother Herbert Fields. The story is a fictionalized version of the life of Annie Oakley (1860–1926), a sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West, and her romance with sharpshooter Frank E. Butler (1847–1926).
Patti Ann LuPone is an American actress and singer best known for her work in musical theater. After starting her professional career with The Acting Company in 1972 she soon gained acclaim for her leading performances on the Broadway and West End stage. Known for playing bold, resilient women on stage, she has won three Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards, two Grammy Awards, was a 2006 inductee to the American Theater Hall of Fame, and has received two Emmy Award nominations.
Elaine Stritch was an American actress, known for her work on Broadway and later, television. She made her professional stage debut in 1944 and appeared in numerous stage plays, musicals, feature films and television series. Stritch was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995.
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Howard da Silva was an American actor, director and musical performer on stage, film, television and radio. He was cast in dozens of productions on the New York stage, appeared in more than two dozen television programs, and acted in more than fifty feature films. Adept at both drama and musicals on the stage, he originated the role of Jud Fry in the original 1943 run of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!, and also portrayed the prosecuting attorney in the 1957 stage production of Compulsion. Da Silva was nominated for a 1960 Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his work in Fiorello!, a musical about New York City mayor LaGuardia. In 1961, da Silva directed Purlie Victorious, by Ossie Davis.
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Barbara Ann Luna, also stylized as BarBara Luna, is an American actress from film, television and musicals. Notable roles include Makia in Five Weeks in a Balloon and Lt. Marlena Moreau in the classic Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror". In 2004 and 2010 she appeared in the first and sixth episodes of Star Trek: New Voyages, a fan-created show distributed over the Internet.
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