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Sonia Cullinen, the sister of late director-choreographer Jerome Robbins, died of a heart attack minutes before the Feb. 26 opening-night curtain of the current Broadway revival of Fiddler on...
Jerome Robbins (born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz; October 11, 1918 – July 29, 1998) was an American dancer, choreographer, film director, theatre director and producer who worked in classical ballet, on stage, film, and television.
- Streisand had a shoplifting phase as a teenager. In the second chapter of her memoir, Streisand recounts her brief engagement with shoplifting, which she notes was "not as simple as random shoplifting," considering that Streisand operated much more cleverly than your average teenage thief.
- Streisand came up with the staging for her big scene in I Can Get It For You Wholesale. At just 19 years old, Streisand's calling as a director was evident.
- "People" was almost cut from Funny Girl. When Funny Girl was in tryouts for Broadway, director Garson Kanin felt that the song "People” wasn't right for Fanny Brice's character, stating (according to Streisand) that "she's just met this man," so why is she getting "all philosophical"?
- Streisand's mother didn't attend the opening night of Funny Girl. Throughout her memoir, Streisand continually processes the effect her family's dynamics had on her.
Sep 22, 2014 · While sitting in her seat before the curtain went up, Jerome Robbins' sister Sonia Cullinen suffered a heart attack on opening night of the 2004 revival of Fidder. She was taken to Bellvue...
Robbins makes a last visit to his beloved Long Island beach cottage. He dies at home in Manhattan on July 29 at age 79. Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz (later Robbins) is born October 11, 1918 at the Jewish Hospital in New York City to Herschel and Lena Rabinowitz. His father is an.
Unwilling to work in the corset factory, he tried to find employment in some form of show business; and through his sister Sonia, who had already danced professionally with Irma Duncan and Senya Gluck-Sandor’s Dance Center, he got an apprenticeship with Sandor’s company.
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Feb 28, 2004 · The sister of Jerome Robbins, the director and choreographer of the original 1964 Broadway production of ''Fiddler on the Roof,'' died on Thursday after suffering a heart attack in her...
