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unusual facts about One man show



Philip Sugden

During that same year, Sugden was a guest curator at the Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York City, where he organized a six-month series of exhibitions, which included a solo show of works by Robert Rauschenberg, celebrating the 1991 International Year of Tibet.


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Adrak Ke Punjey

Adrak ke Panje is also the longest running one-man show, entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1984, by then the drama had already completed 10 thousand shows.

Albert Einstein: The Practical Bohemian

The one-man show opened in 1978 written and performed by actor-writer Ed Metzger in Los Angeles, California.

Andrew Bibby

In August 2008, Bibby played the role of "Fairbanks" for the Australian premiere of the one man show Radio by Al Smith at the Old Fitzroy Theatre.

Bernard Braden Reads Stephen Leacock

John Drainie was another performer noted for his similar one-man show as Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock.

Betty Blokk-buster Follies

Betty Blokk-buster Follies is a 1976 Australian film based on Reg Livermore's popular one man show.

Caroline de Westenholz

He became famous with his literary one man show about Louis Couperus.

Comedy in Music

It became the longest running one-man show in the history of theater with 849 performances by the time it closed on January 21, 1956, a feat which placed it in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Comedy in Music is an original Broadway comedy by Victor Borge, with no additional cast involved, performed as a one-man show.

David Ryall

In 1984 Ryall performed a one man show of stories and poems by Edward Bond at the NT, entitled A Leap in the Light.

Des Keogh

He has toured widely in a one-man show called The Love-Hungry Farmer, an adaptation by Keogh from a work by the Irish playwright John B. Keane.

Edgar Oliver

Notable New York City productions include his roles in Edward II with Cliplight Theater and numerous productions at the Axis Theatre Company including A Glance at New York (which played at the Edinburgh Festival) and his autobiographical one-man show East 10th Street: Self Portrait With Empty House which enjoyed an extended run with Axis.

Enzo Cilenti

He also performed at The Royal Court in a series of plays written and directed by Russian artists entirely in Russian; in Thai ballet as Orpheus in Backpacker Orpheus, a play devised entirely from people’s experiences in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake; and in conceptual theatre for new-writing company Paines Plough in a series of shows (including a one man show) commissioned over a number of seasons by Miuccia Prada to showcase collections for her Miu Miu line at Milan Fashion Week.

Franciszek Starowieyski

He was the first Polish artist to have a one man show at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York in 1986.

Gustavo Ojeda

That same year he had another one-man show of pastels on paper titled "An Intimate Look" in the Rotunda gallery of the Pan American Health Organization in Washington, DC, the small brochure for which boasted appreciations from the future head of Sotheby's Latin American art division, Giulio V. Blanc, and the Cuban poet and art critic Ricardo Pau-Llosa.

Harry Landis

More characteristically, he was cast in Jack Rosenthal's one-man show Bar Mitzvah Boy (BBC, 1976); played one of Arthur Daley's crooked cronies in Minder (1982), and has had roles in Bergerac (1987); Howards' Way (1985); You Rang, M'Lord? (1990) and Jeeves and Wooster (1991).

Hemingway: On the Edge

Hemingway: On the Edge is a one-man show about the life of Ernest Hemingway performed since 1987 by Ed Metzger, and is written by Metzger and his wife Laya Gelff-Metzger.

Isabel Lyon

She seldom spoke of her years with Twain, but she met regularly with Hal Holbrook, who was developing his one-man show Mark Twain Tonight.

Jack Emery

He began his career producing and acting at Keele, most notably in his first one-man show taken from the novels and plays of Samuel Beckett, called "A Remnant", which played in the West End, the Edinburgh Festival and toured worldwide.

Jeff Kanew

He also directed Douglas in 1983's Eddie Macon's Run, Troop Beverly Hills starring Shelley Long, V.I. Warshawski starring Kathleen Turner, Natural Enemies starring Hal Holbrook and Louise Fletcher, Babij Jar a holocaust drama, National Lampoon's Adam and Eve, several TV episodes, and the stage and video versions of the Kirk Douglas one man show "Before I Forget".

John Bixler

Other regional credits include Hally in Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard at Gables Stage, Joe in The Last Sunday in June at Caldwell Theatre, David in the one man show Santaland Diaries at Fresco Productions in residence at the Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, Jake Mace in House and Garden by Alan Ayckbourn and Turkey in Johnny Guitar all at Actor's Playhouse.

John Faunce Leavitt

In 1952 the maritime artist's works were the subject of a one-man show at the William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine.

John Leeson

Leeson played the role of 'Prosecutor 2' in the 2005 stage production of The Trial of Davros and has compiled an entertaining one-man show, "A Dog's Life", directed by Richard Fawkes.

Johnny Friedlaender

By 1953 he had produced works for a one man show at the Museum of Neuchâtel and exhibited at the Galerie Moers in Amsterdam, the II Camino Gallery in Rome, in São Paulo, Brazil and in Paris.

Kwaku Sintim-Misa

He was also featured in the popular American crime series Law & Order and on the drama series Medal of Honor Rag (by the Tony Award winning director Lloyd Richards.) "KSM" became the first African to stage an original Off-Broadway play when he produced Thoughts of a Confused Black Man, an immensely popular one-man show that raised compelling questions about race in the United States.

Leonard Foglia

Foglia directed the production of Thurgood, a one man show about the life and work of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall at Booth Theatre.

Luigi Malice

In 1992 he presented a one-man show, "Percorsi 1965–1992" ("Itineraries 1965–1992"), at the Royal Palace, Naples.

Max Cullen

Since 2007 Cullen has also been performing "Lawson", a one-man show based on the life of Australian poet Henry Lawson.

Morris Frank

William Mooney wrote and performed a one-man show about Frank's life, With a Dog's Eyes.

Pablo Carreno

His one-man show organized for The Time is Always Now Gallery resulted in an impromptu request for a portrait by business tycoon Sir David Tang.

Patrick Mynhardt

He died in London where he was performing in his one-man show Boy from Bethulie at the Jermyn Street Theatre in the West End.

Sacha Sosno

Then in the year following he had his first one-man show in the United States at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Tetsuro Shigematsu

From 1993 to 1996, Shigematsu wrote and performed his one-man show Rising Son in Montreal, Boston, Los Angeles, and Tokyo.

The Bob Hope Theatre

While negotiations for the purchase of the building continued, Dickie Henderson (Vice Chairman of the Bob Hope British Golf Classic) gave a benefit performance of his one-man show at the theatre to raise funds towards refurbishment.

Videotape

However, some classic television programs originally recorded on studio videotape still exist, and are available on DVD - among them the television version of Hal Holbrook's one-man show Mark Twain Tonight (first telecast in 1967), and Mikhail Baryshnikov's classic production of the ballet The Nutcracker (first telecast in 1977).

Yehuda Talit

During the past few years, Talit has been responsible in a joint production with the Beit Lesin Theater in Israel, for the hit one man show starring Avi Kushnir, Returning the Cave Man.