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unusual facts about follies


Weston-under-Redcastle

Weston is home to the 18th century Hawkstone Park Hotel which has 2 golf courses, 2 restaurants, bars and award winning Hawkstone Park Follies.


Alverstoke

Several of Palmerston's Follies were sited within the parish, including Fort Gilkicker, a 19th-century coastal battery fort, which located at the eastern end of Stokes Bay, where it sits across a wide curved natural headland (promontory) taken up by Gosport & Stokes Bay Golf Club.

Anne Lenner

She appeared in the 1940 British comedy film "Garrison Follies" which also included David Tomlinson and Barry Lupino; and on another occasion her singing voice was dubbed for actress Ann Todd.

Anthony Pelissier

His parents were the theatre producer H. G. Pelissier (who presented Pelissier's Follies) and the distinguished actress Fay Compton.

Betty Blokk-buster Follies

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

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

These bears include Anything Goes, signed by Sutton Foster; Billy Elliot: The Musical, signed by Sir Elton John and Gregory Jbara; and Follies, signed by Danny Burstein, Jan Maxwell, Bernadette Peters, Ron Raines and Stephen Sondheim.

Carol Lawrence

Among her other musical theatre parts are the title role in Mame, Guenevere in Camelot (opposite husband Robert Goulet), Do I Hear a Waltz at the Pasadena Playhouse (2001) and Follies at the Wadsworth Theatre in Los Angeles in 2002.

Castle in Hagley Park

The building of the castle (and another folly called the rotunda), was started in 1747 while Sir Thomas Lyttelton was still alive (he died in 1751) so he was not opposed to the modernisation of his park with suitable fashionable ornamental follies, but the credit for its creation is usually given to his son and heir Gorge Lyttelton (the future 1st Lord Lyttelton).

Danny Burstein

He was nominated for a 2013 Tony Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for his performance in the revival of Clifford Odets', Golden Boy, on Broadway and he won the 2012 Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, as well as a Grammy Award nomination, an Astaire Award nomination and a Tony Award nomination for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for his performance in the Broadway revival of Follies.

Durelle Alexander

Durelle Alexander was a talented child performer, and appeared in "Hollywood Junior Follies" and several silent "Our Gang" comedies throughout the 1920s.

Follies in Great Cities

Follies In Great Cities is the debut album by Coventry-based band Honeytrap.

Glenn Simon

Among Simon’s many stage appearances are The Brewery Follies, A Midsummer Night's Dream with Kelie McIver, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, and Mark Ringer’s production of The Alchemist at the Globe Playhouse.

H. G. Pelissier

In April 1907 Pelissier's 'Follies' transferred to the Royalty Theatre in London, where he produced a five minute 'potted-play' called 'Baffles: a Peter-Pan-tomine', based on 'Raffles' and 'Peter Pan'.

Hagley Hall

The present landscape was created from about 1739 to 1764, with follies designed by Lord Camelford, Thomas Pitt of Encombe, James "Athenian" Stuart, and Sanderson Miller.

James Goldman

Follies - 1971, revived 2001 and 2011(book only; lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim) - Tony Nomination for Best Book of a Musical

Jane White

She has additionally played roles in such dramas as Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis and Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts; comedies such as Paul Rudnick's I Hate Hamlet; and musicals such as Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music and the 2001 production of Sondheim's Follies, to name a small selection.

Joe Langworth

From 1990 - 2005, Langworth appeared in a number of major Broadway musicals, including the closing company of the original production of A Chorus Line, the Tony Award-winning production of Ragtime with Audra McDonald, Marin Mazzie and Brian Stokes Mitchell, and the 2001 revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies.

John Murray Anderson

He made his Broadway debut wearing three hats, as writer, director, and producer of The Greenwich Village Follies in 1919.

Julia Goss

Following this, she began a career in the West End and on tour in many musicals, including in the roles of Golde in Fiddler on the Roof, Carlotta in Phantom of the Opera, Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast and Heidi Schiller in Follies.

Kristy Cates

Playing Ruth Wallis herself along with a barrage of other characters (including a medicated Mary Poppins, and a Follies Bergere wannabe), Cates garnered positive reviews from critics.

Majorie Bonner

Produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, the Follies were presented in June 1908, at the Jardin de Paris, atop the New York Theatre.

Maria Friedman

As well as other musical shows, Maria participated in Hey, Mr. Producer!, the concert celebrating the works of Sir Cameron Mackintosh, in which she sang "You Could Drive a Person Crazy," "Broadway Baby," and "How Many Tears?" Similarly, she participated in Sondheim Tonight live at London's Barbican Centre, singing "Losing My Mind" (from Follies) and "More" (from the film Dick Tracy).

Mark Rodenhauser

He also made an appearance in the popular series Football Follies, in the 21st Century Follies DVDs, where he could snap a football a full length of a basketball court.

Minto Follies

“It all began for me in the winter of 1932, when I was taken to see the ‘Minto Follies,’ which that year, had a special attraction - the Olympic Champions who had only weeks before won there gold medals at a Lake Placid, New York.”

In 1926 at the inspiration of Melville Rogers, Minto distilled many of those earlier elements into the format of a show and christened it the “Minto Follies.”

Njoo Cheong Seng

The two joined several further theatrical troupes, including Club Moonlight Crystal Follies in Penang (under Njoo's leadership) and Dardanella, travelling throughout southeast and south Asia.

Parc de la Villette

The park houses museums, concert halls, live performance stages, and theatres, as well as playgrounds for children, and thirty-five architectural follies.

Restoration comedy

Thomas Southerne's dark The Wives' Excuse (1691) is not yet very "soft": it shows a woman miserably married to the fop Friendall, everybody's friend, whose follies and indiscretions undermine her social worth, since her honour is bound up in his.

Rohan Browne

He has also been a part of productions of Grease, Dirty Dancing, Anything Goes, Kiss Me, Kate, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Follies, Mame and the original Boy From Oz.

Shutterbug Follies

Shutterbug Follies has been reviewed favorably by Publishers Weekly and the School Library Journal.

Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies

Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies is a 1997 American short documentary film directed by Mel Damski.

The Brooklyn Follies

The Brooklyn Follies is a 2005 novel by Paul Auster.

The Ice Follies of 1939

The Ice Follies of 1939 is a 1939 American musical drama film directed by Reinhold Schünzel, and starring Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres and Lewis Stone.

Thomas Scoville

Two major works render an insider's perspective on life in technology startups: The satirical Silicon Valley Tarot published in 1998 and Silicon Follies, an online serial novel running on Salon.com in 1999, eventually finding its way to hardcover publication by Pocket Books and a television pilot by Ron Howard's Imagine Television.

Titicut Follies

Titicut Follies is a 1967 American documentary film directed by Frederick Wiseman and filmed by John Marshall, about the patient-inmates of Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane, a Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

Toni Harper

After learning dance under Maceo Anderson, Harper was cast by the choreographer Nick Castle in Christmas Follies, at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in 1945.

Toni Trucks

Theatre credits include "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark," “Cactus Flower,” “Stormy Weather”, “Kiss Me, Kate”, “West Side Story,” “Oklahoma!,” “Follies,” “Footloose,” “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” “Ragtime,” “Sweet Charity” and “Children of Eden.”

Victoria Mallory

She came to fame when appearing on Broadway in the 1970s with parts in three Stephen Sondheim musicals: she had a small role in Follies as Young Heidi, a starring one in A Little Night Music as Anne Egerman (1973–1974), and starred as Maria in the first revival of West Side Story at Lincoln Center.

Vitus Bering

Further follies included plans to send ships north along the rivers Ob and Lena towards the Arctic.

Wharton Follies

In addition to a live stage show featuring the school's most talented students, Follies writes, shoots and edits its own Saturday Night Live-style video features for public consumption.

Wild and Woolfy

Wild and Woolfy is basically a color remake of the 1935 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon Towne Hall Follies, also directed by Avery (albeit just credited in the other cartoon as a "lead animator") and it featured an identical storyline, despite being set in a different historical context.

Winter Garden Theatre

Following the 1932 death of Florenz Ziegfeld, the Shuberts acquired the rights to the name and format of his famed Ziegfeld Follies, and they presented the 1934 and 1936 editions of the Follies featuring performers such as Fanny Brice, Bob Hope, Josephine Baker, Gypsy Rose Lee, Eve Arden, The Nicholas Brothers, and Buddy Ebsen.

Yip Yip Yaphank

The show was typical of revues and follies, featuring acrobatics, dancers, jugglers, and also featured a demonstration by Lightweight Boxing Champion Benny Leonard.


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