Victor Borge

Børge Rosenbaum (3 January 1909 – 23 December 2000),^[1] known professionally as Victor Borge (/ˈbɔːrɡə/ BOR-gə), was a Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist. He was known for his radio and television works in the United States and Europe.^[2]

Borge was known as "The Clown Prince of Denmark".^[3] His best known work was in Comedy in Music, which became the longest running one-man show in the history of theater with 849 performances, a feat which placed it in the Guinness Book of World Records.^[4] He was born in Copenhagen.

In 1999, he received the Kennedy Center Honors.

Borge died on 23 December 2000 in his sleep in Greenwich, Connecticut following a concert, aged 91.^[5]

References

↑ Bjørn Rasmussen (1969). Filmens hvem-vad-hvor (in Danish). Politiken. p. 239. Retrieved 2 October 2010.
↑ "Det Kongelige Teater – Kort fortalt" (in Danish). Archived from the original on 10 January 2011. Retrieved 3 October 2010. My father played in the orchestra for more than 30 years – we couldn't recognise him, when he came home. (Om Bernhard Rosenbaum, som var bratschist i Kapellet fra 1888–1919 sagde Victor Borge: "Min far spillede i Kapellet i over 30 år – vi kunne heller ikke kende ham, da han kom hjem".)
↑ Jean-Pierre Thiollet, 88 notes pour piano solo, Neva Editions, 2015, p.296. ISBN 978-2-35055-192-0
↑ Young, Mark (2 March 1998). The Guinness Book of World Records 1998. Bantam Books. p. 439. ISBN 978-0-553-57895-9. Retrieved 3 October 2010. The longest run of one-man shows is 849, by Victor Borge (Denmark) in his Comedy in Music from October 2, 1953 through 21 January 1956 at the Golden Theater, Broadway, New York City.
↑ "Comedian Victor Borge dies". BBC News. 24 December 2000. Archived from the original on 2 August 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2017.