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Mr. Wonderful is a musical with a book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman, and music and lyrics by Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener, and George David Weiss. Written specifically to showcase the talents of Sammy Davis Jr. , the thin plot, focusing on entertainer Charlie Welch's show business struggles, primarily served as a springboard for ...
- 1956 Broadway
Mr. Wonderful: Opening Date: 22 March, 1956 Closing Date: 23 February, 1957 Performances: 383 performances Venue: Broadway Theater, New York Producers: Jule Styne, George Gilbert, Lester Osterman, Jr. Director: Jack Donohue Cast: Sammy Davis
- Mr. Wonderful
- Sammy Turns to TV and The Silver screen
- Reprise and The ‘Rat Pack’
- Golden Boy – and Much More
In 1955, Sammy was repeatedly approached by songwriter Jule Styne to consider Broadway. The major stumbling blocks were Sammy’s indebtedness to Chicago mobsters – who were increasingly funding his profligate lifestyle by advancing his salary ahead of his nightclub dates – and resistance from his Trio partners to take a break from touring and enter ...
A chapter in Sammy’s career closed when Sam Sr. and Will Mastin retired from the Trio in mid-1957 and late-1958 respectively. But another chapter opened – dramatic acting. In addition to continuing to tour the country’s night spots, over the next 3 years he would tape dramatic roles in two television anthology series, General Electric Theatre and Z...
Sammy continued to tour, including his first visit to England for performances at the Club Pigalle and a Royal Command Performance at the Victoria Palace Theatre for Queen Elizabeth II, on a bill with Nat King Cole and Liberace among others. ABC broadcast a one-hour special called Sammy Davis, Jr. Meets the Britishwith footage from Davis’s act at t...
In October 1964, his new musical Golden Boyopened on Broadway. It was based on Clifford Odets’ 1937 play of the same name, but had suffered a tortuous path through 1964 to get to Broadway – undergoing numerous re-writes, surviving the death of Odets himself, having the original director Peter Coe sacked and replaced by Arthur Penn, and overcoming D...
2.2K. 437K views 11 years ago. 'Mr Wonderful' - A true all round entertainer, Sammy Davis Jr. was an American entertainer who made his debut on the stage at age three. He began recording...
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Samuel George Davis Jr. ( New York, 8 dicembre 1925 – Beverly Hills, 16 maggio 1990) è stato un cantante, ballerino, attore e comico statunitense . Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Citazioni nella letteratura. 3 Citazioni nel cinema. 4 Onorificenze. 5 Filmografia parziale. 5.1 Cinema. 5.2 Televisione. 6 Doppiatori italiani. 7 Discografia. 8 Note.
Mr. Wonderful" is a popular song, written in 1955 written by Jerry Bock, George David Weiss, and Larry Holofcener, as the title song of a Broadway musical starring Sammy Davis Jr. The song was introduced in the musical by Olga James.
Davis had a starring role on Broadway in Mr. Wonderful with Chita Rivera (1956). In 1960, he appeared in the Rat Pack film Ocean's 11 . He returned to the stage in 1964 in a musical adaptation of Clifford Odets ' Golden Boy .
