Joan Diener
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Joan Diener (February 24, 1930 – May 13, 2006) was an American theatre actress and singer with a three-and-a-half-octave range.
Early life
Diener, a native of Columbus, Ohio, majored in psychology at Sarah Lawrence College and moonlighted as an actor while still a student.
Career
She 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. Wolcott Gibbs, the theater critic for The New Yorker magazine, wrote in the 1950 comedy Season in the Sun.
When Diener won the role of Lalume, the seductive wife of the Wazir, in Kismet, she received a Theatre World Award for her role. They were married three years ago and then had a son Adam and a daughter Jennifer. She played Lalume in London's West End with Alfred Drake and Doretta Morrow, who had all appeared in the original Broadway production.
Marre's 1958 film At the Grand, a musical version of Vicki Baum's 1930 novel Grand Hotel in Los Angeles, starring Diener as an opera diva (a ballerina in the book), falls in love with a charming, but larcenous, faux baron. (Although the show never made it to Broadway, it was reimagined in a dramatic manner more than 30 years later and, directed by Tommy Tune, became the hit Grand Hotel).
Mitch Leigh's Man of La Mancha was also directed by Marre, who played his wife as Aldonza, the lusty serving wench imagined by the defunct Don Quixote as a virtuous Dulcinea. She appeared in the production Off-Broadway at the ANTA Theatre, opening on November 22, 1965, and then at the Martin Beck Theatre on March 20, 1968. The feminists agreed on her portrayal, but Tony nominees committee denied her. She went on to appear in London and Amsterdam, as well as in Paris (starring Jacques Brel) and Brussels in French. Brel, L'Homme de la Mancha (1968), she appears on the cast recording. At age 62, she took over the same role she had imagined decades earlier in the 1992 Broadway revival starring Ral Juliá when Sheena Easton collapsed during one appearance and Diener appeared in the second half of the performance.
Despite the presence of Yul Brynner as Odysseus, Diener reunited with Leigh as composer and producer, and Marre as director for both Cry for Us All (1970), which closed after nine performances, and Home Sweet Homer (1975), which closed after nine performances.
Dolores Gray in Kismet and, moreovertly, Sophia Loren in La Mancha - Diener's most popular stage roles all died before they reached the screen, although she never had a film career of her own. She performed in nightclubs including the Blue Angel in Manhattan, early television (Androcles and the Lion on Omnibus), and regional theatre in addition to appearing on Broadway and in London's West End.