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arePhyllis Diller Opens At Oakdale Monday1* Phyllis Oilier, wlia just a few y# 'ears ago was trying out her s, joke3 on her fellow housewives a -lii the local laundromat, arrives ?n M ihe Oakdale Musical Theatre next Monday, Sept. llj as the \s star of her own variety show10 which features the Osmond ;b Brothers and Wnide Dono-h! van and win play through Satie unlay night In Wallingford.Tlie funny ladv, who made her js first professional appearance at PJ the age of 37 after wowing the q laundromat and PTA crowds for the fun of it, is now more in U demand than any personality in11 entertainment. She comes to a Oakdale after a flying trip to ls California to tape a Bob Hope r Show which will be seen on i. September 20.She'll star with Carol Burnett \j on October 10; do her own Kraft y Special on October 25] appear on g- the Hollywood Palace Novem-k ber 21 and January 2; with Red ^ Skelton on January 23 and in between she'll play a month at if New York's Waldorf Astoria, y The Phyllis Dill nr sched-n ule doesn't end there, however,1 She'll go to Puerto Kico to s film her third picture with Bob Hope, “The Private NavyofSgt. Op Farrell.*■jy Phyllis DHler's very special r brand of laughter has been a na-fcional commodity for less f than 10 years. Before that she x was a somewhat extraordinary mother of five with no notion . that there was fame in her fun-• nLness. She got her chance at i Son Francisco's Purple Onion* The regular comedian an the bill : had to take two weeks off, and she was signed as his replacement. She slithered around the - piano, lampooned Eartha Kitt, Yma Sumca, clowned with a zither, cracked topical Jokes--the audience was just polite.“1 knew that I just wasn't good enough, and had a thousand things to learn, Miss Diller ad-rmlts today. She went on-tour,*■' polishing hhr‘acteurouteidropping the songs and linpersonations and developing the housewife routines. Late In 1953, Phyllis introduced Hie new act to New York. The rest, as they say, is history. There followed dozens of television dates, and eventually stardom In her own scries, rThe pniUts of Southampton.1 The film offers started coming, too, the first being only a walkon in “Splendor in the Grass/ but even that was unique because she played Tex-r.Sam SchuiskyInvestors Guideate a gas station or do brain irgery at the same time. I don't dicve it. I've known a lot of ;ry capable people in Wall reet for 30 years and more d they've been working at it. ii ,.i .i —. — !»lt;•! oc mv Hrtr.tflri LiiiU itmv JM-.1 .!a mv hui/cr ha\te been tnak-PHYLLIS DILLERas Gulnan, Her second film, “The Fat Spy/ gave1 her star billing and jack E, Leonard as her love Interest. Since the re have been the Bob Hope films 1 Eight on the Lam1 and-Bay, Did I Get a Wrong Number* to add to the national prestige of Phyllis Diller.While her performing schedule seems more than one five-foot-four, 115 pound comedienne can manage, Phyllis DiUer has found the stamina to create two books and to make recordings. Her first volume, “Phyllis Diller* s Housekeeping Hints/ has just been released. For the first time in Oakdale's history, a took will be for sale in the concession stands and it will be the star's wild ho me making manual. Her second took, 'Phyllis Diller* sMarriage Manual* will be released later this fall. In January, PhyHls Diller will record her first singing album for Columbia Records.Miss DiUer's versatility will be much in evidence on the Wallingford stage and so, too, will be the spectacular talents of the Osmond Brothers, familiar for the past five yagrs to regular viewers of the Andy Williams Show. Williams discovered the quintet of dancing, singing, musicians from Ogden, Utah who range in age from 9 to IT. Added attractions in their act are 6-year-old sis ter Marie and 4-year-old brother Jimmy. 'The family scene Is played In another act of the PhyHls DillerShow with Warde Donovan listed«as .the singing star pf the production. ]n private life, Phyllis is Mrs, Dorovan. Nineteen-year-old Shane Donovan also appears In the evening's entertainment, He plays organ and sings with the Long Island Sounds, a quartet of boys from Old Saybrook who have been a New England singing attraction for the past six years. Jim Bal-donl, Jim Dombaci, and Tony Blanca round out that group and they are all from OldSaybrook, as is Mr, Donovan.The Phyllis Dllier Show will play six evening performances at the Oakdale Musical Theatre. There will bo no matinees which has led producers BenSegal and Bob Hall to suggest early reservations for the attracilon.Seals may bo reserved by phone and by mall.
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Naugatuck, Connecticut, US
Tue, Sep 05, 1967
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