Goddess Wheel first starred which five-time Tony Award nominated actress?
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Goddess Wheel Goddess Wheel is a musical adaptation of "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes. The show contains music by "Hair" composer Galt MacDermot and lyrics/book by Matty Selman. The first presentations of the musical starred Tony Award winner Cherry Jones at Harvard’s American Repertory Theatre and the Prince Theatre in Philadelphia. In 2005, Collaborative Arts Project 21 (CAP21) further developed the musical and presented it from November 30 - December 10.
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Cherry Jones Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is an American actress. A five-time Tony Award nominee for her work on Broadway, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the 1995 revival of "The Heiress" and for the 2005 original production of "Doubt". She won the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Allison Taylor on the FOX television series "24". She has also won three Drama Desk Awards.
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Carole Shelley Carole Shelley (born 16 August 1939) is an English actress. Among her many stage roles are the character of Madame Morrible in the original Broadway cast of the musical "Wicked". She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in "The Elephant Man" in 1979.
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Matty Selman Matty Selman is a playwright, lyricist and composer who makes his home in New York City. He first came into the national spotlight when he was hand-selected by Harvard's Robert Brustein to write the lyrics to an adaptation of Lysistrata with music by HAIR composer, Galt MacDermot. The resulting work starred Tony Award winner Cherry Jones and was presented by the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard and the Prince Theatre in Philadelphia. Both having lived on Staten Island, Selman and MacDermot continued their collaboration and wrote Goddess Wheel a further exploration of the Lysistrata tale, and The Tinderbox, based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen and set in war-torn Iraq. Prior to working with Galt MacDermot, Matty had collaborated with Agnes of God playwright, John Pielmeier on three musicals, Steeplechase the Funny Place, Young Rube, and Slow Dance with a Hot Pickup.
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Gene Tierney Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as a great beauty, she became established as a leading lady. Tierney was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the film "Laura" (1944), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ellen Berent Harland in "Leave Her to Heaven" (1945).
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Xanthe Elbrick Xanthe Eleanora Marie Davina Elbrick (born 1 December 1978, London) is an English Tony Award-nominated stage actress. The youngest of four children, Xanthe (pronounced 'ZANTHEE') was born in London, England, and attended Benenden School.
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Leigh Zimmerman Leigh Zimmerman (born March 28, 1969) is an American actress, singer and dancer. She has appeared on Broadway in "The Will Rogers Follies", "Crazy for You" and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" with Nathan Lane and in London's West End in "The Seven Year Itch", "Chicago", "The Producers" and "A Chorus Line ", for which she won an Olivier Award in 2013.
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Tootsie Duvall Tootsie Duvall (sometimes credited as Susan Duvall or Susan "Tootsie" Duvall) is an American film, theatre and television actress.
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Eve Gordon (New Zealand actress) Eve Gordon (born 16 March 1982) is a New Zealand actress and performer and producer of physical and aerial theatre. Her television appearances include "Mercy Peak" and "Shortland Street", but she is best known as Stacey, a cycle courier and reincarnated Norse goddess Fulla in the fantasy series "The Almighty Johnsons".
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Sheryl Lee Ralph Sheryl Lee Ralph (born December 30, 1956) is an American actress, singer, and activist. She made her screen debut in the 1977 comedy film "A Piece of the Action", before landing her breakthrough role as Deena Jones in the Broadway musical "Dreamgirls" (1981), for which she received Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical.
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Diana Barrymore Diana Blanche Barrymore Blythe (March 3, 1921 – January 25, 1960), known professionally as Diana Barrymore, was an American film and stage actress.
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Peg Murray Margaret L. "Peg" Murray (born February 14, 1924) is an American actress of stage, musical theatre and television.
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Patricia Clarkson Patricia Davies Clarkson (born December 29, 1959) is an American actress. She has starred in many leading and supporting roles in films such as "The Station Agent", "The Pledge", "The Green Mile", "Far from Heaven", "High Art", "Dogville", "Good Night, and Good Luck", "Easy A", and "Cairo Time". She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe for her performance in "Pieces of April" (2003). She twice won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her recurring role in "Six Feet Under". In 2015, she was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in "The Elephant Man".
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Frances Ruffelle Frances Ruffelle (born Frances Jane Ruffell; 29 August 1965) is an English musical theatre actress and recording artist. She won a Tony Award in 1987 and represented the United Kingdom in the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Lonely Symphony (We Will Be Free)", finishing 10th. The song became a UK Top 30 hit.
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Beah Richards Beah Richards (July 12, 1920 – September 14, 2000) was an American actress of stage, screen and television. She was a poet, playwright and author. During her career, Richards was nominated for a Tony and an Academy Award, and received two Primetime Emmy Awards for her performances on television.
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Estelle Hemsley Estelle Hemsley (May 5, 1887 - November 5, 1968) was a prominent early African American actress of stage and screen. She appeared in the stage and screen versions of "Take a Giant Step", earning a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress in the 1959 movie directed by Philip Leacock. Her other notable film roles include playing Grandmother Topouzoglou in Elia Kazan's 1963 movie "America, America" (nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture), the role of Cla-Cla in Mel Ferrer's 1959 film "Green Mansions", the mother of Ruby Dee in "Edge of the City" (1957), and Catherine in Robert Mulligan's 1965 movie "Baby the Rain Must Fall".
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Mercedes Ruehl Mercedes J. Ruehl (born February 28, 1948) is an American theater, television, and film actor. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1992 for "The Fisher King" and a Tony Award for her performance in "Lost in Yonkers" in 1991.
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Julie Taymor Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of theater, opera and film. She is best known for directing the stage musical "The Lion King", for which she became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical, in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design.
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Toni Naples Toni Naples (born May 3, 1952) is an American actress.
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Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman (] ; 29 August 191529 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in "Casablanca" (1942) and as Alicia Huberman in "Notorious" (1946), an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Cary Grant and Claude Rains.
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Karla Burns Karla Burns (born December 24, 1954) is an American operatic mezzo-soprano and actress who has performed nationally and internationally in opera houses, theatres, and on television. She is notably the first black person, African-American or otherwise, to win the Laurence Olivier Award, Britain's most prestigious award for theatre.
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Heather Headley Heather Headley (born October 5, 1974) is a Trinidadian-American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has won a Tony Award, a Grammy Award, and a Drama Desk Award, and she has been nominated for a host of other acting and music accolades.