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PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today in Theatre History: NOVEMBER 8 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Sam Maher and Steve Luber

1913 Birthday of June Hovik, better known as June Havoc, even better known as namesake of Baby June, the character based on her in the musical Gypsy. The show pretty accurately sums up her childhood with a hard-driving mom in the dying years of vaudeville, and a sister who later becomes Gypsy Rose Lee. Havoc had a busy Broadway career of her own, appearing in Pal Joey, Mexican Hayride, Affairs of State and her own pl…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM on November 8, 2013

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