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WHO'S WHO

BOBBY VAN (Steve Anderson) was born right here in New York City (the Bronx to be exact). Both his parents were vaudeville performers and he spent the early part of his life travelling from one theatre to another. He remembers this as some of the happiest times of his life. Strangely enough, instead of wanting to be a performer, his great love was music. He spent his school years attending the School of Performing Arts and the New York College of Music where he studied to be a musician and arranger. One summer he had his own four-piece band in the Catskill Mountains and earned $19.00 a week (and all the chicken he could eat). On Labor Day of that summer an act was booked to entertain the guests. But the act didn't show up, so Bobby volunteered to take its place. He sang, danced and told jokes. He did all the things he had learned from hanging around vaudeville houses with his parents. A wonderful thing happened to him that night. He suddenly felt fulfilled, so he gave up his young musical career to become an entertainer. He started playing U.S.O. shows, then theatres, then came his first Broadway show which was right here at the Winter Garden Theatre - Alive and Kicking with such alumni(ae) as Gwen Verdon, Carl Reiner and Jack Gilford. From there he was signed to MGM pictures where he appeared in Because You're Mine, Small Town Girl, Dobie Gillis and Kiss Me, Kate. He then went back to Broadway to star in the revival of On Your Toes. Then back to television and films. His biggest break came when he co-starred in the revival of the smash musical, No, No, Nanette, which earned him a Tony nomination for Best Actor. Since then he has starred in the film, Lost Horizon, TV specials with Burt Bacharach and Ed Sullivan and last season he starred in his own CBS-TV special with his beautiful wife Elaine Joyce. He recently played the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas and Harrah's Club in Reno and has a new film coming out called The Doomsday Machine. And he says "IT'S GREAT TO BE BACK ON BROADWAY!"

LOLA FALANA (Edna May Sheridan), who emerged as one of the screen's top young dramatic actresses opposite Richard Burton and Lee Marvin in the recent film, The Klansman, based on the William Bradford Huie novel, is returning to the Broadway stage for the first time in ten years. It was during the 1964-65 season that her big break came as a show-stopping teenaged dancer-singer in the Sammy Davis musical, Golden Boy, and it has been Mr. Davis himself who has advised and encouraged her in her career ever since. Miss Falana was born in Camden, New Jersey, and schooled in Philadelphia where she also taught dancing before becoming a member of the Jerome Gaymon Dance Trio. Later she became a singer with Mickey Collins' orchestra and a singer-dancer with Dinah Washington's group. She has been seen frequently on the major television variety and talk shows including Johnny Carson, Bill Cosby, Mike Douglas, Merv Griffin and the Hollywood Palace as well as dramatic shows. She was prominently featured in the ABC-TV special, The Swinging World of Sammy Davis, and has played all the important night clubs including the Deauville in Miami Beach, the Sands in Las Vegas and Harrah's in Lake Tahoe. Miss Falana has spent a great deal of time in Italy the past few years, making a series of TV shows and three motion pictures, including an Italian western called Lola Colt in which she plays the title role.

LILLIAN HAYMAN (Georgia Sheridan) won a Tony Award for her show-stopping performance as Leslie Uggams' strict and old fashioned Momma in the 1968 Broadway musical, Hallelujah Baby!. Prior to her more recent appearance in No, No, Nanette, both on Broadway and on tour, she was featured in Porgy and Bess with which she travelled extensively to Russia, Poland, Germany, Italy, Mexico and throughout South America. She has also appeared on the Broadway or regional stages in Kwamina, Shinbone Alley, Simply Heavenly, Show Boat, Kiss Me, Kate, Dream About Tomorrow, Along Came a Spider, Tough to Get Help and 70, Girls, 70. Her TV credits include guest appearances on the Mike Douglas Show, The New Yorker, Mod Squad and Love American Style. She 

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