Phyllis Newman
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| Phyllis Newman | |
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| Born | March 19, 1933 Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress/Singer |
| Years active | 1952 – present |
| Spouse(s) | Adolph Green (1960-2002) |
Phyllis Newman (born March 19, 1933) is an American actress and singer.
Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, [1] she attended PS 17 and Lincoln High School where she was voted "Future Hollywood Star" and "Most Pull with the Faculty." Newman made her Broadway debut in Wish You Were Here in 1952. Additional theater credits include Bells Are Ringing, Pleasures and Palaces, The Apple Tree, On the Town, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Awake and Sing!, Broadway Bound, and Subways Are For Sleeping, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, beating out Barbra Streisand in I Can Get It for You Wholesale. She has been nominated twice for the Drama Desk Award and received a second Tony nomination for Broadway Bound.
In June 1979, Newman and Arthur Laurents collaborated on the one-woman show The Madwoman of Central Park West. Produced by Fritz Holt, it featured songs by Leonard Bernstein, Jerry Bock, John Kander, Martin Charnin, Betty Comden, Fred Ebb, Sheldon Harnick, Peter Allen, Barry Manilow, Carole Bayer Sager, and Stephen Sondheim, among others. The show ran for 86 performances at the 22 Steps Theatre in New York City.[2]
Newman was a frequent panelist on the game shows What's My Line?, Match Game, and To Tell the Truth. She created the role of Rene Buchanan on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live and was a regular on the primetime series 100 Centre Street and the NBC-TV satirical series That Was The Week That Was. Other television credits include The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Burke's Law, ABC Stage 67, thirtysomething, Murder, She Wrote, and Coming of Age. On screen she appeared in Bye Bye Braverman, The Beautician and the Beast, A Price Above Rubies, and The Human Stain.
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The Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative
In 1995, Newman founded The Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative of The Actors' Fund of America. Since then she has hosted the annual Nothing Like a Dame galas, which have raised more than US$3.5 million and has served 2,500 women in the entertainment industry.[3][4]
Newman will receive the Isabelle Stevenson Award, a special Tony Award, first presented in 2009, for her work with the Health Initiative. This award recognizes "an individual from the theatre community for [his or her] humanitarian work."[5]
Personal life
Newman was married to Adolph Green from 1960 until his death in 2002. She is the mother of Adam and Amanda Green.[3]
Her memoir Just in Time: Notes from My Life (1984), relates her career, life with her husband, Adolph, and her bout with cancer.[6]
References
- ^ Biographyfilmreference.com, retrieved March 13, 2009
- ^ The Madwoman of Central Park West listingguidetomusicaltheatre.com, retrieved March 13, 2009
- ^ a b Finn, Robin."Still a Broadway Baby After All These Years",The New York Times, February 27, 2004
- ^ Gans, Andrew.Annual Nothing Like a Dame Benefit Concert Sets 2008 Date",playbill.com, Oct 1, 2007
- ^ Pesner, Ben."The Tonys Honor Jerry Herman, Phyllis Newman, Virginia's Signature Theatre, and Shirley Herz",tonyawards.com, accessed May 6, 2009
- ^ Listingamazon.ca, retrieved March 13, 2009
External links
- Phyllis Newman at the Internet Broadway Database
- Phyllis Newman at the Internet Movie Database
- TonyAwards.com Interview with Phyllis Newman
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