Anton Chekhov’s play The Cherry Orchard, first produced in 1904, is considered a classic of European theater. The leading role of Madame Ranevskaya has been played on stage and on screen by Helen Hayes, Diana Rigg, Judi Dench, Annette Benning, Charlotte Rampling, and recently, Diane Lane.
Diane Lane’s mother was Playboy’s Playmate of the Month in October 1957, Colleen Farrington.
And an image search on ‘Colleen Farrington’ yields results NSFW.
Actress Patricia Marand was nominated for the 1966 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress for her portrayal of Lois Lane in the Broadway musical It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman.
Harold Prince holds the record for most Tony Award wins, with a total of twenty-one (eight for Best Direction of a Musical, eight for Best Musical, two for Best Producer of a Musical, and three special Tonys). Audra McDonald currently holds the title for most Tonys for performance, with a total of six awards.
The Tony Awards are formally called the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre. Mary Antoinette “Tony” Perry (1888-1946) was the co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, a New York City-based organization “dedicated to supporting excellence and education in theatre,” according to its mission statement. Originally known as the Stage Women’s War Relief during World War I, it later became a part of the World War II Allied Relief Fund under its current name.
Antoinette Louisa Brown was the first woman to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister in the United States. She was eventually given a license to preach by the Congregational Church in 1851 and then offered a position as Minister of a Congregationalist church in South Butler, New York in 1852. In 1857, she returned to her work as an orator and reformer with her new husband, Samuel C. Blackwell.
Queen Marie Antoinette was guillotined in the Place de la Révolution on October 16, 1793, at the end of the Champs d’Elysée.
When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 6 years old, he played for the Imperial Court in Vienna, where the Empress Maria Theresa tested his skill by having him play with the harpsichord keyboard covered. When Mozart slipped on the polished floor, he was helped up by the Archduchess Maria Antonia, the future Marie Antoinette, who was 2 months older than him. According to some biographers, Mozart thanked her and exclaimed that he would marry her when he grew up; other biographers consider the story of the proposal to be apocryphal.
The incident between Mozart and Marie Antoinette was mentioned in the 1984 Best Picture Oscar-winning movie Amadeus. The Emperor Joseph II goes even farther, telling his courtiers with a chuckle that the young Mozart, smitten, jumped into her lap and asked, “Will you marry me?”
Marie-Antoinette was Austrian and not French. She was born in Vienna from Hungarian parents. The city of Marietta, Ohio, was named after her by American patriots in order to celebrate the help the French State had provided in their fight against the British.
Steve Barton was playing in the Austrian musical CATS when choreographer Gillian Lynn decided he would be perfect as Raoul in Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera. The lyrics to one of the songs was translated into German and he auditioned with it. Then they creative team asked him (in German) “Can you sing in English?”
Steve Barton was born in Texas and raised in Utah.
In a 2003 baseball playoff (NLCS) game, Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman did what most people would do — in reacting to a foul ball hit in his direction, he reached out for the ball. Just like most people would do. In this instance, though, Bartman’s actions prevented Cubs left fielder Moisés Alou from catching the ball for what would have been the second out of the 8th inning, with the Cubs leading 3-0 in the game and holding a 3 games to 2 advantage over the Florida Marlins in the 7 game series.
Marlins batter Luis Castillo, given another chance, drew a walk. Following the incident, the Marlins scored eight runs, the Marlins won that game to tie the series, won the next game to win it, and went on to win the World Series over the Yankees.
Many Cubs fans were livid over the incident (and unfairly so because if they were in Bartman’s seat they likely would have reacted similarly. My conjecture.).
(Steve Bartman incident - Wikipedia)
This Steve Bartman Incident was one of many through the years that contributed to (not caused) the Cubs’ long World Series Championship drought since 1908.
Alou later said, “It’s time to forgive the guy and move on.”
In 2016 when the Cubs finally won the World Series, thereby breaking the longest-ever championship drought in baseball (107 years), the Cubs found Steve Bartman and gave him a World Series ring.
The Chicago Cubs began as the White Stockings, a team name that lasted until 1889. Based on the relative youth of the players, the team was next called the “Colts” (1890-1897). When the club’s owner refused to renew manager Cap Anson’s contract in 1898, the leader-less ballplayers were dubbed the “Orphans” (1898-1901). After a disastrous 1901 losing season, the Chicagoans began a huge rebuilding project, stocking the team with young players and rookies. Hence the “Cubs.”
Steve Dettelbach, former United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, is the Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Ohio in the Nov. 6, 2018 general election. His Republican opponent is Dave Yost, currently State Auditor.
ETA: Neither man ever played for the Chicago Cubs.
Ned Yost was a catcher for three MLB teams (Brewers, Rangers, and Expos), and has managed both the Brewers and the Royals. Like Steve Dettelbach and Dave Yost (no apparent relation), Ned Yost has never been a member of the Chicago Cubs.
Brewer’s yeast is an ingredient that has been used for millennia in the production of beer and bread. It is made from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a one-celled fungus. It may have originally been produced from the skins of grapes. It is also used as a nutritional supplement. It’s a rich source of chromium, which may help the body maintain normal blood sugar levels.
Beer, which is brewed from cereal grains, is one of the oldest alcoholic drinks in the world. The earliest evidence of beer produced from barley dates to about 3500–3100 BC. It is possible, but not proven, that it dates back even further — to about 10,000 BC, when cereal grains were first farmed.
Beer is the third most popular drink in the world, behind water and tea.
Capt. Jean-Luc Picard (Sir Patrick Stewart) of the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-D, never, as I recall, ordered a beer in any of the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV episodes or movies. He did, however, often ask his Ready Room replicator for “Tea, Earl Grey, hot.”
Earl Grey tea is believed to have been named for Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1834. During Grey’s time as Prime Minister, several important political changes occurred in England, including the 1832 Reform Act (which instituted major reforms to the House of Commons), and the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
The Grey Cup is the Canadian Football League’s championship game and trophy. The trophy was commissioned in 1909 by the Earl Grey, then Canada’s governor general, for hockey, but later it became awarded for football championships when the Allan Cup was used for hockey.