 Ted and Carrie Akeman with Cole & Walters Circus including her son from a previous marriage and if memory serves me correctly, his name is Donny McCracken who later became Stage Manger at the Opera House in Dallas and would often bring in show guys as extras. Smokey Jones told me he got a good bit of work one winter, he being quite handy splicing ropes and cables, etc. He told me about a Katharine Hepburn show that had a large turn table and as it revolved she would tell dirty jokes to the stage hands as she passed by and make them wait for the next revolution to add the punch line. I think it was Coco Chanel.....Chic might elaborate on this. |
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Ted LaVelda #4
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Yup the show title was "Coco" in
the 69-70 season at the Hellinger
which is now some new age church
Katherine Hepburn starred as the
Parisian dress designer Coco
Chanel making a comeback after
years of retirement in the Andre
Previn and Alan Jay Lerner's
musical that ran almost a year
Although nominated for 7 Tonys
it only won for costumes & for
featured actor Rene Auberjonois
Some other famous stage actresses
were known for their blue humor
Sorry but not for the blog better
for the next "Beefeaters Bunch"
Sure wish I had been yesterday
instead of on a snow crusted
Amtrak running 4 hour late to
DC & then trudging through the
unplowed & unshoveled mess the
few block to the house (yuch)
Flying home tomorrow (hooray)
Karl Wong was the head stagehand
at the Dallas Symphony I believe
for many years maybe in the same
theater as the opera
Corky Plunkett was among the Castle hands who got on at this Dallas theatre during winters. I'm trying to recall the house as the Majestic. Corky got me on a major project for some ultra-high society Dallas soiree, designed by multi-award winner Cecil Beaton, who was mincing and picky, but still a pleasant and gifted artist.
From the Dallas Opera's origin in
1957 until they moved into their
new Opera House in 2009 the Music
Hall at the Fairgrounds was home
Carl (not Karl my error) was head
at the Morton Meyerson Symphony
Hall for the Dallas Symphony
The Majestic in Dallas was part
of a Vaudeville empire built in
1921 for Interstate Amusement Co
It seats 2400 & replaced another
theater of the same name that
burned to the ground in 1917
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