B'WAY HR 55 annieROSS/ mortSAHL/ dorothyLOUDON

Show #55 originally taped March 31, 1994 for WPAT-930AM Radio **AUDIO ONLY PRGRAM - A RADIO PRODUCTION** Host: STEWART KLEIN, Fox 5-TV New York, Film and Theatre Critic        today's guests:ANNIE ROSS -  Annabelle McCauley Allan Short, who passed away in July 2020, known professionally as Annie Ross, was a British-American singer and actress, best known as a member of the jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.  In July 2006 a one-woman play entitled TWISTED: The Annie Ross Story by Brian McGeachan premiered at The Space Theatre in London, starring Verity Quade. It focused on her stormy relationship with her aunt, Broadway legend Ella Logan, her brief affair with the comedian Lenny Bruce and other elements of her life. MORT SAHL  an American comedian, actor, and social satirist, considered the first modern stand-up comedian since Will Rogers.  Sahl pioneered a style of social satire which pokes fun at political and current event topics using improvised monologues and only a newspaper as a prop.  Television host Steve Allen claimed that Sahl was "the only real political philosopher we have in modern comedy." He inspired many later comics to become stage comedians, including Lenny Bruce, Jonathan Winters, George Carlin and Woody Allen.  Allen credits Sahl's new style of humor with "opening up vistas for people like me. DOROTHY LOUDON  an American actress and singer. She won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical in 1977 for her performance as Miss Hannigan in Annie. Loudon was also nominated for Tony Awards for  The Fig Leaves Are Falling and Ballroom, as well as a Golden Globe award for her appearances on The Garry Moore Show. ______________________________________________________________________ **New** enjoy our other shows: "BROADWAY HOUR-Algonquin Hotel 1989"                          https://www.buzzsprout.com/1491625/episodes   ______________________________________________________________________   Taped at the SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, 53rd & 7th Ave. New York City  in THE LOBBY COURT LOUNGE . . . . . . "overlooking scenic 7th avenue"  Executive Producer: KATE McGRATH / Engineer & Editor: CHRIS BREETVELD  For more info, comments or fan mail: [email protected]