tong80 | maandag 24 september 2007 @ 01:48 |
He performed all over the world in order to spread the "art of silence" (L'art du silence). He first toured the United States in 1955 and 1956, close on the heels of his North American debut at the Stratford Festival of Canada. After his opening engagement at the Phoenix Theater in New York, which received rave reviews, he moved to the larger Barrymore Theater to accommodate the public demand. This first US tour ended with a record breaking return to standing room only crowds in San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Los Angeles and other major cities. His extensive transcontinental tours included South America, Africa, Australia, China, Japan, South East Asia, Russia and Europe. His last world tour covered the United States in 2004, and returned to Europe in 2005 and Australia in 2006. Marceau's art became familiar to millions through his many television appearances. His first television performance as a star performer on the Max Liebman Show of Shows won him the television industry's coveted Emmy Award. He appeared on the BBC as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol in 1973. He was a favorite guest of Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas and Dinah Shore, and he also had his own one-man show entitled "Meet Marcel Marceau". He teamed with Red Skelton in three concerts of pantomimes. He also showed his versatility in motion pictures such as First Class, in which he played 17 different roles, Shanks, where he combined his silent art, playing a deaf and mute puppeteer, and his speaking talent, as a mad scientist; as Professor Ping in Barbarella, and as himself in Mel Brooks' Silent Movie, in which, ironically, he is the only actor with a speaking part, the single word "Non!" at the end of the film. He also had a role in a low-budget film roughly based on his life story called Paint It White. The film was never completed because another actor in the movie, a life-long friend with whom he had attended school, died halfway through shooting. As an author, Marceau released both Marcel Marceau Alphabet Book and Marcel Marceau Counting Book. Other publications of Marceau's poetry and illustrations include his La ballade de Paris et du Monde, which he wrote in 1966, and The Story of Bip, written and illustrated by Marceau and published by Harper and Row. In 1982, Le Troisième Oeil, (The Third Eye), his collection of ten original lithographs, was published in Paris with an accompanying text by Marceau. Belfond of Paris published Pimporello in 1987. In 2001, a new photo book for children titled Bip in a Book, published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang, appeared in the bookstores in the US, France and Australia. In 1978, he established his own school in Paris: École Internationale de Mimodrame de Paris, Marcel Marceau (International School of Mimodrame of Paris, Marcel Marceau). In 1996, he established the Marceau Foundation to promote mime in the United States. In 1995, vocalist, dancer, choreographer and mime Michael Jackson and Marceau conceived a concert for HBO, but the project was never completed. In 2000, Marceau brought his full mime company to New York City for presentation of his new mimodrama, The Bowler Hat, previously seen in Paris, London, Tokyo, Taipei, Caracas, Santo Domingo, Valencia (Venezuela) and Munich. From 1999, when Marceau returned with his classic solo show to New York and San Francisco after 15-year absences for critically-acclaimed sold out runs, his career in America enjoyed a remarkable renaissance with strong appeal to a third generation. He latterly appeared to overwhelming acclaim for extended engagements at such legendary American theaters as The Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, demonstrating the timeless appeal of the work and the mastery of this unique artist. Marceau's new full company production Les Contes Fantastiques (Fantasy Tales) opened to great acclaim at the Theatre Antoine in Paris. ![]() ![]() ![]() [ Bericht 47% gewijzigd door tong80 op 24-09-2007 01:55:32 ] | |
Labrador1974 | maandag 24 september 2007 @ 01:55 |
Was altijd een "grappig" figuur om te zien optreden! | |
tong80 | maandag 24 september 2007 @ 01:56 |
De grootste in zijn soort. Ik ken zijn naam niet maar de jongen van Sesamstraat had erg mooie woorden, terwijl ie normaal niet spreekt.![]() | |
klabbakus | maandag 24 september 2007 @ 02:43 |
^^ Dat is Hakim ![]() http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakim_Tra%C3%AFda | |
tong80 | maandag 24 september 2007 @ 03:10 |
Oh, leuke man ![]() ![]() | |
static | maandag 24 september 2007 @ 04:56 |
SHO > TTK op verzoek. | |
SadKingBilly | maandag 24 september 2007 @ 07:34 |
"stilletjes" heengegaan dus? Geen idee wie dat was maar altijd jammer om een artiest te verliezen.. | |
Gellius | maandag 24 september 2007 @ 10:40 |
Als kind vond ik 'm altijd vrèselijk om naar te moeten kijken. | |
tong80 | maandag 24 september 2007 @ 21:08 |
Hij was eng hè ? ![]() ![]() | |
Litpho | maandag 24 september 2007 @ 21:11 |
Wel de ultieme "man in box" performance nu ![]() | |
Rosbief | maandag 24 september 2007 @ 21:24 |
Nee, niet Hakim! ![]() | |
Mainport | maandag 24 september 2007 @ 21:52 |
Professor Ping. | |
Tazmaniac | maandag 24 september 2007 @ 21:58 |
Gruwelijk aan geirriteerd tijdens LDL.. who gives a fuck ![]() |