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The 2019 Christmas concerts are almost here!

This year’s guests will include actor Richard Thomas and singer and actress Kelli O’Hara. The concerts will be held on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, December 12–14, 2019, at 8:00 p.m. in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, UT.

As we look forward to the concerts, here are 10 facts about one of our two talented guests, Richard Thomas.

1. He Made His Broadway Debut at Age 7

Richard Thomas was just seven years old when he made his Broadway debut in Sunrise at Campobello in 1958. On Studio 10 , Thomas was asked if making his Broadway debut at such a young age was slightly terryifying, to which Thomas laughed, “No, it wasn’t terrifying at all! That’s how you know you have the [acting] virus … when you can’t wait to get out there.”

2. The Phrase “Good Night, John-Boy” Based on His Characater Became a Cultural Phenomenon

When the 1972 series The Waltons started they were far back in the ratings and much of the cast never expected that they would be aired past the first season. The program was going up against the extremely popular shows The Mod Squad and The Flip Wilson Show . By the end of the first season, the show skyrocketed in the ratings and fans took to the ending sequence where the family says good night to each other. To this day, people still say “Good night, John-Boy” to Thomas. When asked if the phrase has followed him throughout his career he said, “It’ll happen today at some point. It’ll happen several times today before the end of the day. It’ll be on my tombstone I’m sure.”

If you’re over 40, take a trip down memory lane. If you’re not, here’s some quick history about John-Boy and The Waltons.

3. Spanish Was His First Language

Richard’s parents owned and ran the New York City Ballet. When Richard was a baby, they were living in Havana and dancing in Alicia Alonzo’s ballet company and Spanish became his first languag

American actor (born 1949)

Richard Tiffany Gere (GEER; born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. He began appearing in films in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and a starring role in Days of Heaven (1978). Gere came to prominence with his role in the film American Gigolo (1980), which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol. Gere's other films include An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), The Cotton Club (1984), No Mercy (1986), Pretty Woman (1990), Sommersby (1993), Intersection (1994), First Knight (1995), Primal Fear (1996), Runaway Bride (1999), Dr. T & the Women (2000), Shall We Dance? (2004), I'm Not There (2007), Arbitrage (2012) and Norman (2016). For portraying Billy Flynn in the musical Chicago (2002), he won a Golden Globe Award.

Early life and education

Gere was born in Philadelphia on August 31, 1949, the eldest son and second child of homemaker Doris Ann (née Tiffany; 1924–2016) and NMIC insurance agent Homer George Gere (1922–2023). His father originally intended to become a minister. Gere was raised Methodist in Syracuse, New York. His paternal great-grandfather, George Lane Gere (1848–1932), changed the spelling of his surname from "Geer". One of his ancestors, also named George, was an Englishman who came from Heavitree, England, and settled in the Connecticut Colony in 1638. Both of Gere's parents were Mayflower descendants; his ancestors include Pilgrims such as John Billington, William Brewster, Francis Eaton, Francis Cooke, Degory Priest, George Soule and Richard Warren.

In 1967, Gere graduated from North Syracuse Central High School, where he excelled at gymnastics and music and played the trumpet. Gere attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst on a

American comedy-drama television series

Orange Is the New Black (sometimes abbreviated to OITNB) is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan for Netflix. The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (2010), about her experiences at FCI Danbury, a minimum securityfederal prison. Produced by Tilted Productions in association with Lionsgate Television, Orange Is the New Black premiered on Netflix on July 11, 2013. Its seventh and final season was released on July 26, 2019.

As of 2016, Orange Is the New Black was Netflix's most-watched as well as its longest-running original series. It was widely acclaimed throughout its run and received many accolades. For its first season, the series garnered 12 Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, winning three.

A new Emmy rule in 2015 forced the series to change categories from comedy to drama. For its second season, it received four Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series, and Uzo Aduba won for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Orange Is the New Black is the first series to score Emmy nominations in both comedy and drama categories. The series also received six Golden Globe Award nominations, six Writers Guild of America Award nominations, a Producers Guild of America Award, an American Film Institute Award, and a Peabody Award.

Plot

The series begins revolving around Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), a 33-year-old woman living in New York City who is sentenced to 15 months in Litchfield Penitentiary, a m