Drama tunes out musicals By ROBERT HOFLER
Gone are the days, it is hoped, when Nicholas Hytner can cast two vocal washouts as leads in "Carousel." And maybe someday "Follies" will be cast with people who can sing.
Today is Saturday, August 29, 2026 Broadway Baby Birthdays: Lea Michele Wendy Goldberg Carla Gugino Dina Spybey Frances Ruffelle Don Schlitz Scott Allen Carl Thoma Robin Leach William Friedkin Elliott Gould Patricia Conolly Ruby Holbrook Dick O'Neill Charles Gray Susan Hight Betty Lynn Charles White John Kane Sono Osato Jay Marshall Isabel Sanford Luther Davis Ingrid Bergman Kenneth Carten Willard Waterman Barry Sullivan George Macready Preston Sturges Donald McKee Marita Reid Sidney Carlyle Michael Chekhov May Boley Ann Brody John E. Ince Charles Dalton Fred Huntley Jenny Powers Sam Freed John Kane Joan Wetmore Florine Stettheimer