The musical premiered in the West End at the Adelphi Theatre on April 15, 1975 and starred Jean Simmons, Joss Ackland, David Kernan, Liz Robertson, and Diane Langton, with Hermione Gingold reprising her role as Madame Armfeldt.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was made into a musical film in 1966, directed by Richard Lester, with Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford re-creating their Broadway stage roles, Leon Greene reprising his West End stage role and Phil Silvers starred in an expanded role as " Marcus Lycus ".

During her career in show business, Bardot starred in 47 films, performed in numerous musical shows, and recorded 80 songs.

Haley continued to score hits throughout the 1950s such as " See You Later, Alligator " and he starred in the first rock and roll musical movies Rock Around the Clock and Don't Knock the Rock, both in 1956.

The musical was adapted into a 1967 film of the same name, which starred Richard Harris as Arthur, and which featured the Castle of Coca, Segovia as a fittingly opulent Camelot.

In 1939, he starred on Broadway in the musical Too Many Girls.

The musical sitcom starred Kathie Lee Johnson ( Gifford ) along with Hee Haw regulars Misty Rowe, Gailard Sartain, Lulu Roman, and Kenny Price as a family who owned a truck stop restaurant ( undoubtedly inspired by the Lulu's Truck Stop skit on Hee Haw ).

Hayling Island was also the birthplace and home of actress Stephanie Lawrence who starred in many West End musical shows, she was for many years close friends with Windsurfing inventor Peter Chilvers also from Hayling.

In, Bench starred as Joe Boyd / Joe Hardy in a Cincinnati stage production of the musical Damn Yankees, which also included Gwen Verdon and Gary Sandy.

In London he also starred in The Far Pavilions, the West End musical adaptation of M. M. Kaye ’ s novel, at the Shaftesbury Theatre.

He starred in the new musical Paradise Found, co-directed by Harold Prince and Susan Stroman, at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London.

Directed by Peter Hunt, the musical starred Jesse L. Martin as Mack, Melissa Errico as Polly, David Schramm as Peachum, Karen Ziemba as Lucy Brown and Betty Buckley as a considerably older Jenny.

He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and has acted in supporting roles in films including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula ; he also starred in the 1986 film Down by Law.

In 2001, Curry starred as Scrooge in the musical version of A Christmas Carol that played at Madison Square Garden.

Although she appeared in nine films in her career, all between 1938 and 1943, she was generally passed over for the filmed version of the musical plays in which she starred.

In 1980, he directed the musical Popeye, based on the comic strip / cartoon of the same name, which starred the comedian Robin Williams in his big-screen debut.

In 2001, she starred in a production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical South Pacific.

Loren in Kenya while serving as Goodwill Ambassador in 1992In 2009, after five years off the set and fourteen years since she starred in a prominent US theatrical film, Loren starred in Rob Marshall's film version of Nine, based on the Broadway musical that tells the story of a director whose midlife crisis causes him to struggle to complete his latest film ; he is forced to balance the influences of numerous formative women in his life, including his deceased mother.

Simon also wrote and starred in the film One-Trick Pony ( 1980 ) and co-wrote the Broadway musical The Capeman ( 1998 ) with the poet Derek Walcott.

In 1970, the group starred in a " science fiction musical " film and recorded an accompanying soundtrack album both named after the group.

The production starred Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet. The trio appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and sang a few numbers from the musical, along with an appearance by Lerner and Loewe.

In 1931, Chevalier starred in a musical called The Smiling Lieutenant with Claudette Colbert and Miriam Hopkins.

In 1932, he starred with Jeanette MacDonald in Paramount's film musical, One Hour With You which became a success and one of the films instrumental in making musicals popular again.

Due to its popularity, Paramount starred Maurice Chevalier in another musical called Love Me Tonight ( also 1932 ), and again co-starring Jeanette MacDonald.

Goldkette recorded for the Victor Talking Machine Company, whose musical director, Eddie King, objected to Beiderbecke's hot-jazz style of soloing ; it wasn't copacetic with the commercial obligations that came with the band's recording contract.

In 1926, Bow appeared in eight releases: five for Paramount, including the film version of the musical Kid Boots with Eddie Cantor, and three others as an " out-loan ", shot in 1925.

Paul had hosted a fifteen-minute radio program, The Les Paul Show, on NBC radio in 1950, featuring his trio ( himself, Ford and rhythm player Eddie Stapleton ) and his electronics, recorded from their home and with gentle humor between Paul and Ford bridging musical selections, some of which had already been successful on records, some of which anticipated the couple's recordings, and many of which presented re-interpretations of such jazz and pop selections as " In the Mood ", " Little Rock Getaway ", " Brazil " and " Tiger Rag ".

Over the years, DeMartini has cited many legendary guitarists or other musicians as his primary musical influences such as Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend, Robbin Crosby, Steve Lukather, Uli Roth, Joe Walsh, Jake E. Lee, Joe Perry, Tommy Bolin, Miles Davis, Eddie Van Halen, George Lynch and Randy Rhoads.

The group continued, and by the late 1990s featured Russell, Reese Palmer, Skip Mahoney, Larry Jordan and musical director Eddie Jones, who also works with The Cadillacs.

Shields ' family were musical ; his brothers Harry, Pat ( guitar ), and Eddie ( piano ) all played music professionally.

Earlier live action films to use the new Technicolor process include the final musical number in the feature The Cat and the Fiddle released by MGM in February 1934, and in short sequences filmed for other movies made during 1934, including The House of Rothschild ( 20th Century Pictures / United Artists ) with George Arliss and Kid Millions ( Samuel Goldwyn / United Artists ) with Eddie Cantor.

Although Alex is known as a professional drummer, he began his musical aspirations as a guitarist, with his brother Eddie taking up drums.

A musical version of the Archy and Mehitabel was recorded July 7, 1953 & April 9, 1954 titled archy and mehitabel with Carol Channing as Mehitabel and Eddie Bracken as Archy.

The music and lyrics from the album were the basis of a short-lived 1957 loud and brassy Broadway musical titled Shinbone Alley and starring Eddie Bracken as Archy and Eartha Kitt as Mehitabel.

Shortly after his marriage, Starkey recorded a musical version of Wind in the Willows with Eddie Hardin.

Morales and Perez would soon revive, along with actor and radio announcer Horacio Olivo, a musical group named Los Rayos Gamma, Puerto Rico's most beloved political satire troupe, which had an extremely short but popular stint in 1968 as the creative vehicle for the late satirical writer and journalist, Eddie López.

and takes up the role of Eddie in the new musical Loserville at the west Yorkshire Playhouse in June 2012

Instead, Gates will play Eddie in the new musical Loserville at the West Yorkshire Playhouse from 18 June to 14 July 2012.

He drew the prop cartoons used in the 1957 Broadway musical comedy, Rumple, starring Gretchen Wyler, Elliott Gould and Eddie Foy, Jr.

Coordinator Eddie Izzard also acknowledged the show's heritage in an interview in London's Evening Standard ( 31 May 2001 ) saying: " The musical elements will follow the previous format because it's the son of Secret Policeman's Ball – so they're more acoustic than electric ..."

The 1982 parody song " Boogie In Your Butt " by comedian Eddie Murphy interpolates Soul Makossa's bassline and horn charts while " Butt Naked Booty Bless " by 1990s hip hop group Poor Righteous Teachers heavily samples its musical bridge and drum patterns.

Along with Brian Holland, Dozier served as the team's musical arranger and producer, whilst Eddie Holland concentrated mainly on lyrics and vocal production.

His musical affiliations is a " who's who " of the jazz world, including Max Roach, Dexter Gordon, Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis, Art Farmer, Sonny Stitt, Anthony Braxton, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Eddie Harris and many others.

Many actors paid tribute to him, including Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Eddie Murphy, Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, Elijah Wood, Dane Cook, Dwayne Johnson, Stephen Fry, Peter Fonda, and Keira Knightley, as well as musical collaborators Hybrid.

Les Paul had hosted a 15-minute radio program, The Les Paul Show, on NBC in 1950, featuring his trio ( himself, Ford, and rhythm player Eddie Stapleton ) and his electronics, recorded from their home and with gentle humour between Paul and Ford bridging musical selections, some of which had already been successful on records, some of which anticipated the couple's recordings, and many of which presented dazzling re-interpretations of such jazz and pop selections as " In the Mood ," " Little Rock Getaway ," " Brazil ," and " Tiger Rag.

The program included such events as a showing of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, starring Jason Robards ( from the novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ); The Seven Little Foys, starring Mickey Rooney, Eddie Foy Jr. and the Osmond Brothers ; Think Pretty, a musical starring Fred Astaire and Barrie Chase and Groucho Marx in " Time for Elizabeth ", a televised adaptation of a play that Marx and Norman Krasna wrote in 1948.

* " Hound Dog " was sung by Eddie Clendening, portraying Elvis Presley, in the Broadway musical Million Dollar Quartet, which opened in New York in April 2010.