Look what's coming back to Broadway!!
Missed it the first
time...
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time..!!
(P.S. I have not financial
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17 comments:
This is a coproduction from the
John F Kennedy Center in DC with
La Jolla from San Diego produced
by my good friends Max Woodward
& the just retired president of
the "JFKC" Michael Kaiser
Tiki is still involved there &
was an unpaid advisor for this
We were at the opening night &
at the party as well (terrific)
It is beautifully done
The St James is 1 of our larger
musical houses that was restored
to it's original splendor by the
Jujamcyn theaters that own it a
few years back & it's where the
musical "Barnum" played
My office is around the corner in
the same block so I don't have to
cross the street to get there
I've enjoyed working in this
theater many times
It opened in 1927 as the Erlanger
I saw the original and I enjoyed it.
In my own little corner in my own little world I think the title ""Side Show" did not help sell tickets to the general public.
The musical is about the well-known conjoined twins, The Hilton Sisters and their lives.
But that's show business.
Enjoy!
Hi Chic -
Glad to hear your comments on this production. Your comments were not yet on the blog when I sent mine to Buckles.
I hope Side Show does well this time.
I also enjoyed the musical Steel Pier which was based on the dance competitions during the depression. It didn't last too long but it was a breakthrough role for Kristin Chenoweth.
Geo Hamid the First was the owner of the Steel Pier THE major entertainment center in Atlantic City. Many circus acts worked the Steel Pier. If you google Steel Pier on google or you tube you will some of the well know circus acts working the pier.
Besides the circus acts he had the latest music acts, too.
BIg Names:
The few times I worked on the third units of Hamid Morton gave me the opportunity of the late James Hamid to discuss the Steel Pier. Great stories and great business.
Geo Hamid the first was associated in the Wirth and Hamind booking agent. Frank Wirth being the husband of horse woman May Worth. Hamid also had an association with Bob Morton, hence the title Hamid-Morton Circus. Mr. Horton is an interesting character as well.
I agree with MIKE. If a title cannot always make a show, a title ill-conceived can break one. Parley Baer's last feature film was LAST OF THE DOGMEN, about an urgent search for their descendents. The film was beautifully realized, and I recommend looking it up, but as Parley told me, "The public was not sufficiently conversant with the Cheyenne Nation to know the Dogmen were their elite combat forces, equivalent to our Marines. It sounded more like the break-up of a rock band, and the title killed us at the box office." SIDE SHOW may work for this one, but it fails to inform us that the focus is on Daisy and Violet.
Pardon all the typos in my previous post, I was in a rush..
To make the Hamid clearer than my previous postingL
George A.Hamid , Sr. - owner of Steel Pier
George A. Hamid, Jr, the second, a graduate of Princeton University,
James M.Hamid, recently deceased.
James M.Hamid, Jr who now runs the Hamid Circus.
Always a pleasure to work with the Hamids.
This is just a tiny bit of Hamid information. Bloggers could add much more. The Hamids also owned The New Jersey State Fair.
We saw the show here in San Diego at La Jolla Playhouse and thoroughly enjoyed it. It is well done.
All the best,
Don Covington
Not sure if he was a brother or a
cousin but "Big" Al Hamid was a
big time carnival concessionaire
He ran all the joints & food on
Reithoffer Shows back in the 60s
He was tied in with the Vivonas
& L&N Amusements also back then
Likely several others as well
My buddy AAron Waitz who assists
me on Broadway spent his school
year summers spinning floss on
the steel pier & has stories to
tell about the talent offstage
Just recalled that 1 of the Cora
twins (I think it was Frank) ran
the lobby concession stand in the
St James during the "Barnum" run
Well KLSDAD you'll have quite a
financial interest at the current
outrageous Broadway ticket prices
If I didn't work on Broadway I'd
never see a show at those prices
Chic, would that be Frank Kora who was also on Ringling? He was a skater on one of the big ice shows back in the 40s and married clown Charlie Bell's daughter (Charlotte). Their daughter was Tosca who married Henry Schoer and later Doady Fornasari. Tosca and Doady with their charming daughter present a hilarious dog act burlesquing a bullfight.
Dick Flint
Baltimore
Absopositutely Dick please pardon
my misspelling his last name
After Frank retired from the show
he ran a specialty towel shop at
the Red Barn Market in Bradenton
I believe Tosca is currently in
the wardrobe department of the
Sarasota Ballet & maybe Opera
Tosca & Doady also had an arial
motorcycle act some years back
I just remembered Frank's twin's
name was Marty & his son's name
was Frank Kora Jr (a flyer)
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