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  70 years ago in The Villager
Marilyn herself was born in the Bronx but grew up in Washington, D.C., where her mother worked at the State Department’s Agency for International Development, her father was Commissioner of the Bureau of Accounts and, later, an assistant secretary of the treasury.
Sokol’s one-to-one knowledge of people who have come out is a bit limited.
Now she’s in a comedy of another sort, with a voice provided by playwright Pfeffinger, that she thinks is “very original and on a much higher level than most TV sitcoms.
www.thevillager.com /villager_25/sokolplays.html   (1069 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Medication, dosages should be reviewed Thursday, July 27, 2000 By MARILYN SOKOL Although the American health-care system is arguably the best in the world, mistakes happen.
In fact, studies claim that anywhere from 44,000 to 98,000 deaths occur each year because of medical error.
Marilyn Sokol welcomes your questions and comments, which may be addressed in the column.
www.chirosmart.net /meviw.txt   (460 words)

  
 In The Wings by Stewart F. Lane , off-Broadway Review, Promenade Theatre, New York Theatre Guide - Online
Lisa Datz, a young Laura Linney-lookalike, is smart and attractive as the “goy-toy” to the appealing Josh Prince, who plays the quintessential Scarsdale prince (a would-be “Jewish Bob Goulet”) with whom she shares the apartment.
Marilyn Sokol reprises a familiar role as his mother.
Yet Marilyn Sokol, portraying the biggest cliché of them all, the meddling Jewish mother, manages to draw genuine laughs, and lots of them.
www.newyorktheatreguide.com /reviews/inthewings05.htm   (468 words)

  
 Muppet Central Forum - Question for Karen Prell
The song you are asking about ("Life in the Country/Life in the City") is sung by Jim Henson and Marilyn Sokol.
Marilyn is best known for her work as Ma Otter but she also did quite a bit of work on Sesame Street including singing "Doll House", "I Want a Monster to Be My Friend", "Monster Lullaby" among several others.
I didn't know that Marilyn performed in it, so it's been good to see the information other folks know about it.
forum.muppetcentral.com /printthread.php?t=973   (803 words)

  
 In The Wings: When Bad Plays Happen to Good Actors (BroadwayWorld.com)
Sokol exposing herself to the audience when she sits down, knees apart, in a short dress.
In supporting roles, Brian Henderson is appropriately stupid and annoying as an air-headed bimboy and Marilyn Sokol pulls back a bit to bring some unexpected warmth to her bossy mom character.
And although Mattie Ulrich's costumes aren't meant to be satirical, the assortment of bell bottoms, hip huggers and mismatched prints are funny in their accuracy.
www.broadwayworld.com /printcolumn.cfm?id=5125   (850 words)

  
 Welcome to NEXT Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Even though it stars veteran diva-comedienne Marilyn Sokol, it's a stale, unfunny coming-out story that makes even bad sitcom writing seem accomplished.
The Equity cast is game and they have a surprisingly good set (by off-off-Broadway standards), but if Marilyn Sokol can't make it funny‹it ain't funny.
Conversely, you'll want to shell out full-price to see Hugh Jackman in The Boy From Oz, the new bio-musical about the life of gay singer/songwriter Peter Allen.
www.nextmagazine.net /theater/beckett.shtml   (526 words)

  
 New School University 2001-02 Annual Report
Holden holds an M.F.A. in performing arts management from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and a B.A. in theatre arts from Drew University.
Marilyn Sokol joins the Acting Department at the Actors Studio Drama School.
Sokol's Broadway credits include Grease, Conversations with my Father, Welcome to the Club, O'Neill's The Great God Brown and Moliere's Don Juan (both with the Phoenix Rep).
www.newschool.edu /admin/annualreport/02/appoint_asds.html   (684 words)

  
 A CurtainUp Review, If Memory Serves
When we first meet her she's plugging a low impact video she's produced to gossip columnist Linda Simmons (Marilyn Sokol).
Later she pushes her agent Helen Menken (also played by Sokol) to get her a deal doing a remake of Mildred Pierce -- in which her loyal gay assistant Paul Michael (Jeff Whitty) proposes to play Mildred's mean daughter Veda.
Marilyn Sokol comes close to stealing the show -- both as Linda Simmons, the gossip columnist with an uncanny ability to remember and twist everything she hears into juicy tidbits and as Helen Menken, a tough Hollywood agent.
www.curtainup.com /ifmemoryserves.html   (1011 words)

  
 Marilyn Sokol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Although many fans may not know her name, Marilyn Sokol is a familiar...
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 "Me and My Fanny" - A Tribute to Fanny Brice
Funny lady Marilyn Sokol celebrates the life and career of Fanny Brice through seldom sung musical gems as well as Fanny favorites from burlesque, vaudeville, classic films and The Zeigfeld Follies.
Marilyn Sokol is an actress, singer, comedienne and writer who has performed in virtually every theatrical medium from Broadway stage and film, to radio, television and some of the finest cabaret rooms throughout the country.
Sokol belongs in a lineage that runs from Sophie Tucker to Bette Midler." -Stephen Holden, The New York Times
www.hofstra.edu /CampusL/Culture/Culture_FannyBrice.cfm   (202 words)

  
 Rockland Center for the Arts
There will be plenty of clever parodies and political satire to keep the evening merry.
With "Me and My Fanny", Marilyn Sokol pays tribute to Fanny Brice the late, great star of stage, screen, radio and TV - the original "Funny Girl" about whom the Broadway show was written.
Sokol, with her distinctive voice and hilarious delivery, weaves little known tidbits and seldom-sung songs from burlesque and vaudeville into a festive tapestry of New York show biz merriment.
www.rocklandartcenter.org /palsarchive.html   (461 words)

  
 Scolari, Datz, Prince, Henderson, and Sokol In the Wings: Theater News on TheaterMania.com
Scolari, Datz, Prince, Henderson, and Sokol In the Wings
Peter Scolari, Lisa Datz, Josh Prince, Brian Henderson, and Marilyn Sokol will co-star in In the Wings, a new comedy written by Tony Award-winning producer Stewart F. Lane.
Sokol has starred on Broadway in Conversations with My Father, Grease, and The Great God Brown.
www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/6504   (487 words)

  
 Playbill News: Marilyn Sokol Solo Offers Guilt Without Sex, Apr. 2
Marilyn Sokol Solo Offers Guilt Without Sex, Apr. 2
Marilyn Sokol has been doing her one-woman show, Guilt Without Sex, on and off for several years -- her last New York appearance with it was at Theatre Arielle in January 1991.
Sokol has titled this installment "Guilt Without Sex III," crediting such influences as "Matisse, Picasso and Ed Sullivan Show re-runs." Novelty tunes in Guilt include "I'm Not Myself Anymore" (a torch song for people with organ transplants) and "Das Chicago Song."
www.playbill.com /news/article/38002.html   (346 words)

  
 Playbill News: In the Wings, Producer Lane's Play of Backstage Life, Opens Off-Broadway Sept. 28
Marilyn Sokol and Josh Prince in In the Wings.
In the Wings, the new comedy by Stewart F. Lane, the producer, theatre owner and sometime playwright, officially opens at the Promenade Theatre on Sept. 28, after previews from Sept. 9.
Featured are Josh Prince (Forbidden Broadway, Little Me), Lisa Datz (The Full Monty), Brian Henderson, Marilyn Sokol (Conversations With My Father) and Peter Scolari (Sly Fox, Hairspray, TV's "Newhart").
www.playbill.com /news/article/95358.html   (598 words)

  
 What A Character!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Born in the Bronx, New York and raised in Washington D.C., Marilyn Sokol has found success on the stage, screen and television.
After earning her bachelor's degree in Spanish Literature, Drama and Art History from NYU's Heights College of Arts and Science, Sokol began her professional career playing the “Belly Dancer” in the first national touring company of Man of La Mancha, starring Jose Ferrer.
Her Broadway debut came in 1989 in the musical Welcome to the Club, and she won an Emmy in 1992 for a series of comedy programs produced by ABC-TV in Washington, D.C..
www.what-a-character.com /cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=982804359   (150 words)

  
 In the Wings, a CurtainUp review
Undoubtedly, Lane's reputation as a producer enabled him to attract an able director, Jeremy Dobrish, to take on the thankless task of trying to turn this threadbare concept into a smart silk purse.
But Dobrish is a director, not a magician, and it's evident from the moment the lights go up that neither his best efforts or the comedic talents of Marilyn Sokol and Peter Scolari could save In the Wings from a crash landing.
Steve and Mel's guru, Bernardo (a scenery chewing Peter Scolari), arrives after we listen to him panting his way up to their fifth floor walkup (a sound gag guaranteed to be repeated) and gives them their big chance -- to appear in a showcase musical version of I Married A Communist.
www.curtainup.com /inthewings.html   (582 words)

  
 Did Stewart F. Lane's In the Wings Fly with Critics?, Broadway.com Buzz
Stewart F. Lane's backstage comedy In the Wings centers on two young actors and the move that changes both their lives forever.
Jeremy Dobrish directed the piece, which stars Lisa Datz, Josh Prince, Marilyn Sokol, Brian Henderson and Peter Scolari.
She's not around long enough to salvage the proceedings, but the skill is something to admire… Lisa Datz and Josh Prince are the young actors playing the young actors, and both have undeniable stage appeal, but the broad comedy, such as it is, in the script offers them no challenges."
www.broadway.com /gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=518691   (468 words)

  
 Reviews/Music; Marilyn Sokol's Comedy - New York Times
Reviews/Music; Marilyn Sokol's Comedy - New York Times
LEAD: Few performers take more delight in sifting through the arcane crannies of show business history than Marilyn Sokol.
Few performers take more delight in sifting through the arcane crannies of show business history than Marilyn Sokol.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE7DA1231F937A2575AC0A96E948260   (298 words)

  
 Lehman E-News: Features
Peter Scolari with Professor Sokol in "In the Wings."
The campus community is invited to join Professor Marilyn Sokol (Journalism, Communication and Theatre) for her next meeting of "The Working Professional" on Monday, October 17, as she welcomes acclaimed actor Peter Scolari to Lehman College.
Most recently, he appeared with Professor Sokol in "In the Wings" at the Promenade Theatre.
www.lehman.cuny.edu /lehman/enews/2005_10_11/feat_scolari.html   (245 words)

  
 AMCTV.com SHOW - Something Short of Paradise
Marilyn Sokol co-stars as Sarandon's man hating friend.
A bittersweet comedy about urban romance in the Annie Hall mold.
Jean-Pierre Aumont, Joe Grifasi, Robert Hitt, Bob Kaliban, Ted Pugh, David Rasche, Ann Robey, Susan Sarandon, Marilyn Sokol, David Steinberg
www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=10358-1-1   (96 words)

  
 Alumni Profile: Marilyn Sokol
Marilyn Sokol, BA’77 (T-H), has been writing a weekly column, “Through the Years,” for the newspaper, The Record, since 1993 in which she regularly answers readers’ questions about concerns on aging.
When you’re older, you sit around these dinner parties and talk about your own parents’ problems — Marilyn Sokol,
Notice how I emphasize the positive traits, the same happens with the negative traits: if you were a grouch in high school, you’ll be a grouch in the senior residence!
www.fdu.edu /newspubs/magazine/00sp/soko.html   (859 words)

  
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