Don was the super talented star of
“Curley McDimple” with Bernadette Peters
Don Emmons in “Curley” Headshot
Joyce Nolan & Don Emmons
Bayn Johnson & Bernadette Peters
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Bayn Johnson the star of “Curley McDimple”
received the New York Daily News Award
for “Outstanding Performance in a Musical”
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Bayn Johnson & Don Emmons
The Very Lovely Butterfly McQueen
who appeared in “Curley McDimple”
The radiant and always glamorous
Margaret O’Brien in “Curley McDimple”
Bayn Johnson with Ingeborg Rhodin,
the Horsewoman Extraordinaire at the circus
with her stallion, Baby.
This publicity tie-in was arranged by me
[Amanda
Stevenson] for the Norway Times.
ROBERT DAHDAH
Director – Librettist – Composer
433 West 46th Street • New York, NY 10036
(212) 586-7954 [Office] • (212) 568-0453 [Home]
THEATRE EXPERIENCE
1999 “White Dwarfs” by Jerry Kaufman Director Theatre Studio, NYC
1999 “OTB” by Gene Ruffini Director Newspaper Guild, NYC
1999 “Role Play” by Sid Theil Director Theatre Studio, NYC
1998 “Dames at Sea” by Wise & Haimsohn Director Columbia Center Arts, Longview, WA
1998 “Bridge Jumpers” by Bob Quinn Director St. Clement’s Theatre, NYC
1998 “Frame Up” by Bob Siegel Director John Harm’s Theatre, Englewood, NJ
1997 “Irish Ghost Stories” Irish Theatre Director St. Clement’s Theatre, NYC
1997 “Sic Gloria Tantra” by Gene Ruffini Director Trilogy Theatre, NYC
1997 “Common Princess” Director Regina Laudis Abbey, Bethlehem, CT
1996 “Watch Your Step” by Irving Berlin Adaptor/Director Theatre for the New City, NYC
1995 Shows for the Regina Laudis Abbey Director Bethlehem, CT
1994 “Irving Berlin’s Ragtime Revue” Author/Director Theatre for the New City, NYC
1994 “You Can’t Have Everything” Bob Quinn Director Bethlehem, CT
1993 “Curley McDimple” Co-author-Lyricist-Composer Jan McCart Dinner Theatre, Miami, FL
1993 “La Roca” by Sean Brown Director Theatre for the New City, NYC
1993 “Gloria Gloriosa” by Gual-Rexach Director St. Clement’s Theatre, NYC
Robert Dahdah is noted for his
contributions to the “Caffe Cino”
“Return to the Caffe Cino” by Steve Susoyev and George Birimisa
“Caffe Cino: The Birthplace of Off-Off Broadway (Theater in the Americas)” by Wendell C. Stone
“In May 1966, Robert Dahdah, who had directed frequently at the Cino, opened the coffeehouse’s most successful production, Dames at Sea. It was the only show at the Cino to have an open ended run.”
SUGAR was directed by Robert Dahdah in 1976.
The Chatham Community Players.
“Dames at Sea” Cast and Robert Dahdah.
Robert Dahdah’s IMDb Biography:
In addition to film and stage work as an actor, he has been for fifty years one of the
most respected directors in New York’s Off-Off Broadway theatre world. He has
directed plays by Lanford Wilson, Robert Patrick (III), and Bob Heide, as well as the
original Caffe Cino production of “Dames at Sea,” and many other award-winning
works.
On May 25, 2007, he was presented with an award as “The Father of Off-Off
Broadway.”
June 17th, 2008 by Scott Marks
Mary Boylan
Remember the old woman who lived in a shoe? Here’s an old woman who looked like a lived-in shoe and made a career out of it!
Seeing Mary Boylan on screen for the first time gave me a gigantic laff at the movies. It was towards the end of Woody Allen’s Bananas. In order to to avoid courtroom photogs, Fielding Melish covers his face with a hat. He spots Miss Boylan in the crowd and taken aback by her homeliness, Melish kindly places his cap over her face. Allen later used her as the blue-haired Miss Reed in Annie Hall.
She was born on February 23, 1913 in Plattsburgh, New York. Due to a genetic quirk, Ms. Boylan looked many years older than her age, so she invariably was cast as senile spinsters. Her first big screen appearance was as the lady who looks like she’s always smelling something bad in Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man.
She appeared in two of the most influential films of their day, Midnight Cowboy and The Exorcist, in which she received billing as “First Mental Patient.” Sadly, she didn’t get a crack at the role she was born to play. Ms. Boylan never starred as Eleanor Roosevelt opposite Ralph Bellamy’s F.D.R. in a touring company of Sunrise at Campobello.
Offscreen, she was described as lively and energetic. In addition to her film roles. Miss Boylan starred in New York’s Off-Off Broadway theatres such as the Caffe Cino and La Mama, with vehicles written especially for her by such writers as H.M. Koutoukas.
And shades of Skip Bittman, when Ms. Boylan auditioned for musical roles, she brought a tape recorder to auditions instead of an accompanist.
The next time you hear someone mimic Norma Desmond’s “They don’t make faces like that anymore,” think of meeskite Mary Boylan.
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Heartland (1980) Annie Hall (1977) Andy Warhol’s Bad (1977) Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) The Night of the Iguana (1964) Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) Edge of Fury (1958) The Wrong Man (1957) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mary Boylan, a character actress and playwright for 45 years, died Saturday in Roosevelt Hospital. She was 70 years old and lived in Manhattan.
Miss Boylan made her Broadway debut in 1938 opposite David Wayne in ”Dance Night,” and later appeared in ”Suzanna and the Elders,” ”Our Town” and ”The Young Among Themselves.”
She and Robert Dahdah wrote ”Curley McDimple,” a musical produced Off Broadway. Walter Kerr of The New York Times called her ”a canny actress who can handle just about anything.”
She was seen in films such as ”Night of the Iguana” and ”Annie Hall.”
Miss Boylan is survived by two brothers, Dr. John W. Boylan of Newington, Conn., and Alfred G. Boylan of Rochester, N.Y.
A funeral mass will be said at 11 A.M. Wednesday at St. Paul the Apostle Church, at Ninth Avenue and West 59th Street.
