1. Joan Diener was an American theatre actress and singer with a three-and-a-half-octave range.
12 Facts About Joan Diener
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Joan Diener made her Broadway debut in the 1948 revue Small Wonder, directed by Burt Shevelove and choreographed by Gower Champion and co-starring Tom Ewell, Alice Pearce and Jack Cassidy.
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Joan Diener appeared in the 1950 comedy Season in the Sun, written by The New Yorker magazine's theatre critic, Wolcott Gibbs.
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Joan Diener met her future husband, theatre director Albert Marre, in 1953, when she won the role of Lalume, the seductive wife of the Wazir, in Kismet, winning a Theatre World Award for her performance.
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Joan Diener reprised the role of Lalume in Kismet in London's West End alongside Alfred Drake and Doretta Morrow, who had all starred in the original Broadway production.
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Joan Diener appeared in the production Off-Broadway at the ANTA Theatre, opening on November 22,1965, and then when the musical opened on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on March 20,1968.
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Joan Diener went on to play the role in London and Amsterdam, in Paris and Brussels in French.
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Joan Diener appears on the cast recording with Brel, L'Homme de la Mancha.
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At age 62, she took over the same role she had created decades earlier in the 1992 Broadway revival starring Raul Julia when Sheena Easton collapsed during one performance and Joan Diener filled in for the second half of the show.
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Joan Diener reunited with Leigh as composer and Marre as director for both Cry for Us All, which closed after nine performances,.
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Joan Diener has a naturally expressive voice and acts with a natural subtlety, and as the hero's illegitimate wife she proved passionate and beautiful.
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Joan Diener died of complications from cancer in New York City, aged 76.