Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968

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Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968
MusicJune Carroll
Gene Bissell
LyricsJune Carroll
Gene Bissell
Productions1968 Broadway

Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968 is a 1968 musical revue produced by Leonard Sillman. The original production included Madeline Kahn and Robert Klein. [1]

Leonard Sillman was an American Broadway producer. Born in Detroit, Michigan on May 9, 1908, he was the brother of June Carroll, the brother-in-law of Sidney Carroll and the uncle of Steve Reich and Jonathan Carroll. He is perhaps best known for his series of musical revues, Leonard Sillman's New Faces, which introduced many major stars to Broadway audiences, such as Eartha Kitt, Inga Swenson, Paul Lynde and Maggie Smith. Versions of New Faces were produced in 1934, 1936, 1943, 1952, 1956, 1962 and 1968. The very first New Faces in 1934 included actors Henry Fonda, Imogene Coca and Frances Dewey Wormser.

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Robert Klein is an American stand-up comedian, singer, and actor. He had several comedy albums in the 1970s, was nominated for a Best Actor in a Musical Tony Award for 1979's They're Playing Our Song, and has made a variety of TV and movie appearances, including hosting Saturday Night Live twice.

The play was profiled in the William Goldman book The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway .

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The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway is an account of the 1967–68 season on and off Broadway by American novelist and screenwriter William Goldman. It was originally published in 1969 and is considered one of the best books ever written on American theater. In The New York Times, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt called the book “Very nearly perfect. ... It is a loose-limbed, gossipy, insider, savvy, nuts-and-bolts report on the annual search for the winning numbers that is now big-time American commercial theatre.”

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References

  1. ↑ Playbill from 1968 production accessed 15 June 2013
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