Julius Monk

b. Julius Withers Monk, 10 November 1912, Spencer, NEW YORK, USA, d. 22 August 1995, NEW YORK, NY, USA. After their studies at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Monk performed piano in NEW YORK and France. Linking up with Herbert Jacoby, owner of New York’s Le Ruban Bleu, Monk became supervisor. In 1956, Monk still left Le Ruban Bleu for San Francisco’s the starving i, where he was emcee. In the meantime, Murray Grand was handling New York’s Crimson Onion for owner Irving Haber. Renaming the membership the Downstairs Area, Grand delivered for Monk. The brand new establishment’s starting revue, Four Below, which starred Dody Goodman, was a big success. Although almost completely of Grand’s producing, the present was acknowledged to Monk. Haber, thinking the credits, allow Monk consider charge therefore Grand give up. When the premises had been planned for demolition, the membership moved to Western world 56th Road where Haber and Monk opened up the Upstairs ON THE Downstairs, above the Downstairs, today renamed the Downstairs ON THE Upstairs. Monk staged a succession of revues by authors such as for example Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt (who afterwards collaborated in the Fantasticks), Louis Botto, Sheldon Harnick, Natural herb Hartig, Gerry Matthews and Tom Poston. Performers showing up for Monk, as single works, accompanists or in revues, included Jean Arnold, Michael Dark brown, Cecil Cabot, Thelma Carpenter, Pat Carroll, Imogene Coca, Jane and Gordon Connell, Blossom Dearie and Annie Ross, after that working in relationship, Robert Downey, George Furth, Alice Ghostly, Ronny Graham, Tammy Grimes, Ellen Hanley, Costs Hinnant, Susan Johnson, Liberace, Dorothy Loudon, Portia Nelson, Bibi Osterwald, Norman Paris, Lovelady Powell, Caspar Reardon, Rex Robbins, William Roy, Maxine Sullivan, Nancy Sussault, Sylvia Syms, Fredricka Weber and Mary Louise Wilson. Monk, who occasionally annoyingly stated credit for finding already established performers, did not often recognize skill; he rejected Barbra Streisand and misjudged the selling point of Billie Vacation who didn’t fare well using the relatively snooty viewers. Friction between Monk and Haber prompted Monk to keep and in 1962 he and a co-employee, Thomas Hammond, opened up the Rendezvous Area (Plaza 9) in the Plaza Resort. There, he staged displays such as for example Baker’s Dozen and Dime TWELVE. Monk’s last display in the Plaza, Four AT HAND, shut on 29 June 1968 and he retired. Among Monk’s displays over time were Consider Five, Demi-Dozen, BITS OF Eight, Four Below Attacks Back, Dressed TOWARDS THE Nines and Seven Arrive Eleven.