After thirteen previews, the Broadway production, directed by Melvin Bernhardt, set design by John Lee Beatty, costumes by Patricia McGourty, and lighting by Dennis Parichy, opened on November 4, 1981 at the John Golden Theatre, where it ran for 535 performances.

* 1982 Tony Award, Best Direction of a Play ( Melvin Bernhardt )

* Melvin Bernhardt ( born 1941 ), American stage and television director

* Another World: Ira Cirker ; Melvin Bernhardt ; Robert Calhoun ; Barnet Kellman ; Jack Hofsiss ; Andrew D. Weyman

Leon Max Lederman ( born July 15, 1922 ) is an American physicist who, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1988 for their joint research on neutrinos.

Melvin Kenneth " Mel " Smith ( born 3 December 1952 ) is an English comedian, writer, film director, producer and actor.

Gardner was born in the big farming community of Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, the youngest of seven children ( she had two brothers, Raymond and Melvin, and four sisters, Beatrice, Elsie Mae, Inez, and Myra ).

Melvin Lawrence DeFleur ( born April 27, 1923 in Portland, Oregon ) is a professor and scholar in the field of communications.

Melvin Robert " Bom " Laird ( born September 1, 1922 ) is an American politician and writer.

* Melvin O. Adams, lawyer for Lizzie Borden, was born in Ashburnham.

* Melvin Mora ( born 1972 ), Venezuelan professional baseball player

* Grandmaster Melle Mel, Melvin Glover ( born 1961 ), hip-hop musician

Melvin Douglas " Mel " Lastman ( born March 9, 1933 ), nicknamed " Mayor Mel ", is a former businessman and politician.

Francis Melvin Rogallo ( January 27, 1912 – September 1, 2009 ) was an American aeronautical engineer inventor born in Sanger, California, U. S. A .; he is credited with the invention of the Rogallo wing, or " flexible wing ", a precursor to the modern hang glider and paraglider.

Roberts was born in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, the fifth and youngest child of the Reverend Ellis Melvin Roberts and Claudius Priscilla Roberts ( née Irwin ) ( d. 1974 ).

Taymor was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Elizabeth ( née Bernstein ), a political science teacher, and Melvin Lester Taymor, a gynecologist.

Melvin " Block " Van Peebles ( born August 21, 1932 ) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, novelist and composer.

Lee was born in Elyria, Ohio, the son of Elvira ( née Taft ), a teacher, and C. Melvin Lee, an engineer.

Melvin Howard Tormé was born in Chicago, Illinois, to immigrant Russian Jewish parents, whose surname had been Torma.

Melvin Parker ( born June 7, 1944, Kinston, North Carolina ) is a drummer.

Boswell was born in Harrison County, Missouri, the son of Margaret and Melvin Boswell.

Farmer was born in Seattle, to Ernest Melvin Farmer and Cora Lillian ( Van Ornum ) Farmer.

Allen was born Melvin Allen Israel in Birmingham, Alabama.

The group formerly known as The Charlemagnes took on the name " The Blue Notes " in 1954, with a lineup consisting of lead singer Harold Melvin ( born June 25, 1939, in Philadelphia, died March 24, 1997 ), Bernard Williams, Roosevelt Brodie, Jesse Gillis, Jr., and Franklin Peaker.

Coleman was born in Austin, Texas, the son of Mary Wharton ( née Johns ) and Melvin Randolph Coleman.

Melvin Emery " Mel " Patton ( born November 16, 1924 ) is an American track and field athlete, who won two gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Valentine Esegragbo Melvin Strasser was born on April 26, 1967 in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, to parents from the Creole ethnic group.

Mel Powell ( born Melvin Epstein ) ( February 12, 1923 – April 24, 1998 ) was an American jazz pianist, composer of classical music, and music educator.

* Urofsky, Melvin I., Division and Discord: The Supreme Court under Stone and Vinson, 1941 – 1953 ( University of South Carolina Press, 1997 ) ISBN 1-57003-120-7.

* Urofsky, Melvin I., Division and Discord: The Supreme Court under Stone and Vinson, 1941 – 1953 ( University of South Carolina Press, 1997 ) ISBN 1-57003-120-7

His father, Melvin Gingerich, taught at Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas, from 1941 to 1947, when he took a job at Goshen College in Indiana.

Melvin Lacy " Mel " Renfro ( born December 30, 1941 in Houston, Texas ) is a former American football defensive back in the National Football League who spent his entire fourteen-year career with the Dallas Cowboys.

Charles Melvin VC ( 2 May 1885 – 17 July 1941 ) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Melvin Leon Stottlemyre, Sr. ( born November 13, 1941 in Hazleton, Missouri ) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher and pitching coach.

Melvin was born in Halifax in 1941, joining the Metropolitan Police in 1960, then the Criminal Investigation Department.

He used the summer months of his graduate studies to work with planetary scientist Gerard Kuiper ( thesis advisor ), physicist George Gamow, and chemist Melvin Calvin.

Early songs with disco elements include " You Keep Me Hangin ' On " ( The Supremes, 1966 ), " Only the Strong Survive " ( Jerry Butler, 1968 ), " Message to Love " ( Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, 1970 ), " Soul Makossa " ( Manu Dibango, 1972 ), Eddie Kendricks ' Keep on Truckin ' ( 1973 ) and " The Love I Lost " by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes ( 1973 ).

Other members of Brown's band included stalwart singer and sideman Bobby Byrd, drummers John " Jabo " Starks, Clyde Stubblefield and Melvin Parker ( Maceo's brother ), saxophonist St. Clair Pinckney, trombonist Fred Wesley, guitarist Alphonso " Country " Kellum and bassist Bernard Odum.

In 1962 Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger showed that more than one type of neutrino exists by first detecting interactions of the muon neutrino ( already hypothesised with the name neutretto ), which earned them the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics.

1966 ); Crapsey, Adelaide: " Pierrot " ( c. 1914 ); Faulkner, William: Vision in Spring ( 1921 ); Ficke, Arthur Davison: " A Watteau Melody " ( 1913 ); Garrison, Theodosia: " Good-Bye, Pierrette " ( 1906 ), " When Pierrot Passes " ( before 1917 ); Griffith, William: Loves and Losses of Pierrot ( 1916 ), Three Poems: Pierrot, the Conjurer, Pierrot Dispossesed, The Stricken Pierrot ( 1923 ); Hughes, Langston: " A Black Pierrot " ( 1923 ), " Pierrot " ( 1926 ), " For Dead Mimes " ( 1926 ), " Heart " ( 1932 )— see " Goldweber " under External links below ; Loveman, Samuel: " In Pierrot's Garden " ( 1911 ; five poems ); Lowell, Amy: " Stravinsky's Three Pieces " ( 1915 ); Masters, Edgar Lee: " Poor Pierrot " ( 1918 ); Moore, Marianne: " To Pierrot Returning to His Orchid " ( c. 1910 ); Shelley, Melvin Geer: " Pierrot " ( 1940 ); Stevens, Wallace: " Pierrot " ( 1909, first pub.

* Agrippa ’ s Daughter ( 1964 ), an English novel by Howard Melvin Fast

* Melvin Maas ( 1898 – 1964 ), American Marine aviator and politician from Minnesota

Northwood has three elected local Councillors: Cllr Scott Seaman-Digby ( first elected 1998 ), Cllr Richard Lewis ( first elected 2002 ) and Cllr Carol Melvin ( first elected 2008 ).

Melvin McAllister, Life in Hooper, Colorado, self-published ( 1998 ), 211 pages

* Melvin Eugene Carnahan ( 1934 – 2000 ), Governor of Missouri from 1993 to 2000

* Melvin Cottrell ( 1929 – 2002 ), former mayor of Jackson Township who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1992 until his death.

* Junk ( novel ), a novel by Melvin Burgess

When the rebels reached the town lock-up ( in an effort to rescue the prisoners ), they encountered constable Michael Melvin and in the ensuing scuffle broke his leg.

* Melvin Laird, U. S. House of Representatives ( 1952-1969 ), Secretary of Defense ( 1969-1973 )

However, he is forced to mature as a result of an ex-con named Melvin ( Ving Rhames ), who moves into their home.

* Melvin " Mel " Cooley ( Richard Deacon ) – the balding producer of The Alan Brady Show ( and Brady's brother-in-law ), who is constantly at odds with Buddy, who often makes insulting comments about Mel's baldness, to which Mel often responds with a simple " Yechh!