Londres
Ziegfield Theatre
Broadway - Etats-Unis
Construction: 1927 - Fermeture: 1966
Topologie du théâtre
Nombre de salles actives: 1
Salle 1: (1660) 1927 - Actif
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Adresse: 6th Avenue at W. 54th St., Roof, New York, NY
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1660
1927 - Actif
Florenz Ziegfeld built, financed by William Randolph Hearst. Designed by Joseph Urban and Thomas A. Lamb. It became a movie house in 1933 until Billy Rose bought it in 1944 and returned it to legit theatre for 11 years. In 1955, NBC used the theatre as television studio until 1963. Then live entertainment returned until 1967 wthen it was razed for a skyscraper.
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Original
18) Kismet (Original)
Joué durant 1 an 4 mois 3 semaines
Nb de représentations: 583 représentations
Première preview: 03 December 1953
Première: 03 December 1953
Dernière: 23 April 1955
Compositeur: George Forrest • Robert Wright •
Parolier: George Forrest • Robert Wright •
Libettiste: Charles Lederer • Luther Davis •
Metteur en scène: Albert Marre •
Chorégraphe: Jack Cole •
Avec: Omar ... Philip Coolidge / A Public Poet, later called Hajj ... Alfred Drake / Marsinah, his daughter ... Doretta Morrow / Jawan ... Truman Gaige / The Wazir of Police ... Henry Calvin / Lalume ... Joan Diener / The Caliph ... Richard Kiley / Princess Zubbediya of Damascus ... Florence Lessing / Princess Samaris of Bangalore ... Beatrice Kraft / Imam of the Mosque ... Richard Oneto
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17) Porgy and Bess (Revival)
Joué durant
Nb de représentations: 305 représentations
Première preview: 10 March 1953
Première: 10 March 1953
Dernière: 10 March 1953
Compositeur: George Gershwin •
Parolier: DuBose Heyward • Ira Gershwin •
Libettiste: DuBose Heyward •
Metteur en scène: Robert Breen •
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16) Of thee I sing (Revival)
Joué durant 1 mois
Nb de représentations: 72 représentations
Première preview: 05 May 1952
Première: 05 May 1952
Dernière: 05 June 1952
Compositeur: George Gershwin •
Parolier: Ira Gershwin •
Libettiste: George S. Kaufman • Morrie Ryskind •
Metteur en scène: George S. Kaufman •
Chorégraphe:
Avec: Jack Carson (John P. Wintergreen), Paul Hartman (Alexander Throttlebottom), Florenz Ames (The French Ambassador), Arlene Anderson (Showgirl), Ken AyersVicki Barrett (Dancer), Jean Bartel (Beauty Contestant), Betty Buday (Dancer), Claudia Campbell (Singer), Louise Carlyle (Chambermaid), Norman Clayton (Singer), Georgine Darcy (Dancer), Crandall Diehl (Dancer), Gregg Evans (Showgirl), Charlotte Foley (Showgirl), Donald Foster (Senator Robert E. Lyons), Howard Freeman (Senator Carver Jones), Warren Galjour (Singer), J. Corkey Geil (Dancer), Skeet Guenther (Dancer), Jay Harwick (Singer), Keith Kaldenberg (Singer), Joe Kerrigan (Singer), Michael King (Flunkie), William Krach (Flunkie), Lenore Lonergan (Diana Devereaux), Jonathan Lucas (Sam Jenkins), Joan Mann (Emily Benson), Mort Marshall (Announcer), James McCracken (Singer), Al McGranary (Chief Flunkey), Peggy Merber (Dancer), Betty Oakes (Mary Turner), J. Pat O'Malley (Francis X. Gilhooley), Bob Oran (Yusef Yussevitch), Helen Rice (Singer), Dorothy Richards (Showgirl), Jeanne Schlegel (Singer), Frank Seabolt (Dancer), Robert F. Simon (Louis Lippman), Siri (Showgirl), Loring Smith (Matthew Arnold Fulton), Joanne Spiller (Singer), Pat Stanley (Dancer), Abe Stein (Vladimir Vidovitch), Bob Tucker (Dancer), Jeanne Tyler (Showgirl), Gloria Van Dorpe (Singer), Charlotte Van Lein (Showgirl), Larry Weber (Singer), Tom Wells (Attaché), Jack Whiting (The Chief Justice), Parker Wilson (A Sightseer)
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Revival
15) Antony and Cleopatra (Revival)
Joué durant 3 mois 3 semaines
Nb de représentations: 76 représentations
Première preview: Inconnu
Première: 20 December 1951
Dernière: 12 April 1952
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Libettiste: William Shakespeare •
Metteur en scène: Michael Benthall •
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Avec: Vivien Leigh (Cleopatra), Laurence Olivier (Antony), Donald Pleasence (Lemprius Euphronius), Harry Andrews (Enobarbus), Mairhi Russel (Iras), Robert Helpmann (Octavius Caesar), Wilfrid Hyde White (Lepidus), Niall MacGinnis (Pompey), Edmund Purdom (Thydeus), Katharine Blake (Charmian)
Commentaire: Joué en répertoire avec Antony and Cleopatra de Shakespeare.
Avant cette série, la pièce a été jouée du 24 au 28 avril 1951 à l'Opera House de Manchester, du 10 mai au 21 septembre 1951 au St James Theatre de Londres, puis du 13 au 17 novembre 1951 au Royal Court Theatre de Liverpool. (plus)
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Revival
14) Caesar and Cleopatra (Revival)
Joué durant 3 mois 3 semaines
Nb de représentations: 77 représentations
Première preview: Inconnu
Première: 19 December 1951
Dernière: 11 April 1952
Compositeur: *** Divers •
Parolier: *** Divers •
Libettiste: *** Divers •
Metteur en scène: Michael Benthall •
Chorégraphe:
Avec: Vivien Leigh (Cleopatra), Laurence Olivier (Julius Caesar), Esmond Knight, Edmind Purdom, Timothy Bateson, Lyndon Brook, Clifford Williams, Derrick Penley, Colin Kemball, Terence Owen, Cy Grant, Peter Cushing, Elizabeth Kentish, Jill Welchman, Teresa Moore, Renee Goddard, Jessie Barclay, Elspeth March, Maxine Audley, Jill Bennett, Thomas Heathcote, Michael Godfrey, Alexander Davion, John Dunbar, Noel Coleman, Desmond Llewelyn, Paul Homer, Max Gardiner, Henry Oscar, Richard Goolden, Alaric Cotter, Dan Cunningham, Marjorie Gresley, Niall Macginnis, Wilfrid Hyde White, Norman Woodland, Robert Helpmann, Anthony Pelly, Elizabeth Kentish, Harold Kasket, Ronald Adam, …
Commentaire: Joué en répertoire avec Antony and Cleopatra de Shakespeare.
Avant cette série, la pièce a été jouée du 24 au 28 avril 1951 à l'Opera House de Manchester, du 10 mai au 21 septembre 1951 au St James Theatre de Londres, puis du 13 au 17 novembre 1951 au Royal Court Theatre de Liverpool. (plus)
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13) Music in the Air (Revival)
Joué durant 1 mois 2 semaines
Nb de représentations: 56 représentations
Première preview: 08 October 1951
Première: 08 October 1951
Dernière: 24 November 1951
Compositeur: Jerome Kern •
Parolier: Oscar Hammerstein II •
Libettiste: Oscar Hammerstein II •
Metteur en scène: Oscar Hammerstein II •
Chorégraphe:
Avec: Dennis King (Bruno Mahler), Conrad Nagel (Ernst Weber), Jane Pickens (Frieda Hatzfeld), Charles Winninger (Dr. Walter Lessing), Gordon AlexanderRobert Baird (Man/Walking Club), James Beni (Porter), Richard Bishop (Kirschner), Walter Born (Pfugfelder), Robert Busch (Man/Walking Club), Richard Case (Herman), Georgianna Catal (Child), Madelaine Chambers (Woman), Carlo Corelli (Schmidt), Charles Dunn (Man/Walking Club), Jean Ellsperman (Frau Schreimann), Marybeth Fitzpatrick (Tila), Hal Frye (Burgomaster), Warren Galjour (Man/Walking Club), Robert Gilson (Man/Walking Club), Mitchell Gregg (Karl Reder), Norah Howard (Anna), Mary Hoyer (Child), Joan Keenan (Woman), Julie Kelety (Mrs. Pflugfelder), John M. King (Waiter), William Krach (Man/Walking Club), Rosemary Kuhlmann (Woman), Sheila Mathews (Woman), Lillian Murphy (Sieglinde Lessing), Grace Olsen (Woman), Frederick Olsson (Man/Walking Club), Muriel O'Malley (Lilli), Biruta Ramoska (Barmaid), Fred Rivett (Man/Walking Club), Charles Saari (Child), Marjorie Samsel (Woman), Terry Saunders (Marthe), Guy Spaull (Uppmann), Helen Stanton (Woman), Susan Steell (Frau Moeller), Donald Thrall (Man/Walking Club), Waldorf (Zoo Attendant), Milton Watson (Priest)
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12) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Original)
Joué durant 1 an 9 mois 1 semaine
Nb de représentations: 740 représentations
Première preview: 08 December 1949
Première: 08 December 1949
Dernière: 15 September 1951
Compositeur: Jule Styne •
Parolier: Leo Robin •
Libettiste: Anita Loos • Joseph Fields •
Metteur en scène: John C. Wilson •
Chorégraphe: Agnès de Mille •
Avec: Lorelei Lee ... Carol Channing / Dorothy Shaw ... Yvonne Adair / Henry Spofford ... Eric Brotherson / Sir Francis Beekman ... Rex Evans / Gloria Stark ... Anita Alvarez / Josephus Gage ... George S. Irving / Robert Lemanteur ... Mort Marshall / Gus Esmond ... Jack McCauley / Mr. Esmond, Sr. ... Irving Mitchell / Louis Lemanteur ... Howard Morris
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11) Brigadoon (Original)
Joué durant
Nb de représentations: 581 représentations
Première preview: Inconnu
Première: 13 March 1947
Dernière: 31 July 1948
Compositeur: Frederik Loewe •
Parolier: Alan Jay Lerner •
Libettiste: Alan Jay Lerner •
Metteur en scène: Robert Lewis •
Chorégraphe: Agnès de Mille •
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10) Show Boat (Revival)
Joué durant 1 an 1 mois
Nb de représentations: 418 représentations
Première preview: Inconnu
Première: 05 January 1946
Dernière: 04 February 1947
Compositeur: Jerome Kern •
Parolier: Oscar Hammerstein II •
Libettiste: Oscar Hammerstein II •
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Avec: Windy ... Scott Moore
Steve ... Robert Allen
Pete ... Seldon Bennett
Queenie ... Helen Dowdy
Parthy Ann Hawks ... Ethel Owen
Captain Andy ... Ralph Dumke
Ellie ... Colette Lyons
Frank ... Buddy Ebsen
Rubber Face ... Francis Mahoney
Julie ... Carol Bruce
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9) Red Mill (The) (Revival)
Joué durant 1 an 3 mois
Nb de représentations: 531 représentations
Première preview: 16 October 1945
Première: 16 October 1945
Dernière: 18 January 1947
Compositeur: Victor Herbert •
Parolier: Henry Blossom •
Libettiste: Henry Blossom •
Metteur en scène: Billy Gilbert •
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Avec: Lynn Alden (Singing Ensemble), Ann Andre (Gretchen), Phyllis Bateman (Georgette), Dorothy Bauer (Girl of the Ballet), Mardi BayneLloyd R. Bell (Singing Ensemble), Donna Birock (Girl of the Ballet), Betty Bursher (Singing Ensemble), Lorna Byron (Juliana), Charlotte Christman (Singing Ensemble), Pete Civello (Singing Ensemble), Charles Collins (Gaston), Elaine Corbett (Girl of the Ballet), Kenneth Davies (Singing Ensemble), Gloria DeWerd (Girl of the Ballet), Tom Decker (Singing Ensemble), Edward Dew (The Govenor), Jacqueline Ellis (Nanette), Kathleen Ellis (Fleurette), Betty Fadden (Singing Ensemble), June Fitzpatrick (Girl of the Ballet), Eddie Foy, Jr. (Kid Conner), Nony Franklin (Suzette), Betty Galavan (Singing Ensemble), Patricia Gardner (Lucette), Jack Garland (Singing Ensemble), Shirley Glickman (Girl of the Ballet), Billy Griffith (Pennyfeather), Tom Halligan (Bill-Poster), Barbara Hallstone (Girl of the Ballet), Joan Hansen (Girl of the Ballet), Elton Howard (Singing Ensemble), Robert Hughes (Hendrik Van Damn), Frank Jaquet (Jan Van Borkem), Carol Johnston (Singing Ensemble), Joan Johnston (Yvette), Michael King (Singing Ensemble), Leland Ledford (Singing Ensemble), David Lee (Singing Ensemble), Jackie Lindberg (Girl of the Ballet), Mildred Ann Mauldin (Girl of the Ballet), George Meader (Franz), Wally Mohr (Singing Ensemble), Odette Myrtil (Madame La Fleur), Hope O'Brady (Flora), Michael O'Shea (Con Kidder), Barbara Penland (Girl of the Ballet), Lois Potter (Lena), Hal Price (Willem), Georgia Reed (Girl of the Ballet), Patricia Sims (Girl of the Ballet), Thomas Spengler (A Sailor), Dorothy Stone (Tina), Calvin Swihart (Singing Ensemble), Patsy Tongstrom (Singing Ensemble), Eleanor Winter (Singing Ensemble)
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8) Hot-Cha! (Original)
Joué durant 3 mois 1 semaine
Nb de représentations: 119 représentations
Première preview: 08 March 1932
Première: 08 March 1932
Dernière: 18 June 1932
Compositeur: Ray Henderson •
Parolier: Lew Brown •
Libettiste: H.S. Kraft • Lew Brown • Mark Hellinger • Ray Henderson •
Metteur en scène: Edgar MacGregor • Edward Clarke Liley •
Chorégraphe:
Avec: Iris Adrian (Ensemble), Louise Allen (Ensemble), Mary Ann (Ensemble), Nick Basil (Bus Boy), Miriam BattistaHerman Belmonte (Ensemble), Leonard Berry (Ensemble), Virginia Biddle (Ensemble), Joan Burgess (Ensemble), Alice Burrage (Ensemble), Tito Coral (Ramon La Grande), Mary Coyle (Ensemble), Jack Daley (Conductor), Dorothy Day (Ensemble), Antonio De Marco (Specialty), Renee De Marco (Specialty), Louis Delgado (Brakeman), Alan DeSylva (Ensemble), Marion Dixon (Ensemble), Dody Donnelly (Ensemble), Betty Dumbris (Ensemble), Prudence Edgar (Ensemble), Georgia Ellis (Ensemble), Jules Epailly (Store Keeper), Harriet Fink (Ensemble), Marjorie Fisher (Ensemble), Dorothy Flood (Ensemble), John Fulco (Gendarme), Robert Gleckler (Jose Diaz), Pearl Harris (Ensemble), Patty Hastings (Ensemble), Florence Healy (Ensemble), Hernandez Brothers (Three Troubadours), Theo Holley (Ensemble), Jean Howard (Ensemble), Stanley Howard (Ensemble), Mercedes Hughes (Ensemble), Alfonso Iglesias (Ensemble), Dorothy Kal (Ensemble), Gloria Kelly (Ensemble), Tom Kelly (Ensemble), June Knight (Dorothy Maxwell), Frances Kruger (Ensemble), Charles La Torre (Doctor), Bert Lahr (Alky Schmidt), Jane Lane (Ensemble), Rose Louise (Girl in Compartment), Evelyn Lowrie (Ensemble), Neva Lynn (Ensemble), June MacCloy (Mae Devlin), Frances Markey (Ensemble), Edwin Marsh (Ensemble), Mary Joan Martin (Ensemble), Lorelle McCarver (Ensemble), Lou Ann Meredith (Ensemble), Rosalie Milan (Ensemble), Vic Monroe (Lopez), Grace Moore (Ensemble), Pauline Moore (Ensemble), George O'Brien (Ensemble), Ethel O'Dell (Ensemble), Catherine O'Neil (Ensemble), Lester Ostrander (Ensemble), Lynne Overman (Hap Wilson), Arthur Page (Hoffman), Sherry Pelham (Ensemble), Theo Phane (Ensemble), Lilyan Picard (Ensemble), Eleanor Powell (Dancer), Basil Prock (Ensemble), Polly Ray (Ensemble), Carol Renwick (Ensemble), Mary Alice Rice (Ensemble), Wilburn Riviere (Ensemble), Buddy Rogers (Jack Whitney), Alma Ross (Servant), William Ruppel (Ensemble), Mina Ruskin (Ensemble), Marion Santre (Ensemble), Roy Sedley (Revenue Man), Gertrude Sheffield (Ensemble), Marie Stevens (Ensemble), Kay Stewart (Ensemble), Thomas Thompson (Ensemble), Lupe Velez (Conchita), Veloz and Yolanda (Specialty), Efim Vitis (Ensemble), Marion Volk (Ensemble), Molly Wakefield (Ensemble), Diana Walker (Ensemble), Lorraine Webb (Ensemble), Mildred Webb (Ensemble), Marjorie White (Toodles Smith)
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7) Ziegfeld Follies of 1931 (Original)
Joué durant 4 mois 3 semaines
Nb de représentations: 165 représentations
Première preview: 01 July 1931
Première: 01 July 1931
Dernière: 21 November 1931
Compositeur: Ben Oakland • Chick Endor • Dave Stamper • Dimitri Tiomkin • Harry Revel • Hugo Riesenfeld • Jay Gorney • Jimmy Monaco • Noël Coward • Nora Bayes • Walter Donaldson •
Parolier: Barry Trivers • Charles Farrell • E.Y. Harburg • Gene Buck • J.P. Murray • Jack Norworth • Joseph McCarthy • Mack Gordon • Noël Coward •
Libettiste: Gene Buck • J.P. Murray • Mark Hellinger •
Metteur en scène: Florenz Ziegfeld •
Chorégraphe:
Avec: Iris Adrian, Albertina Rasch Dancers, Thomas Arace, Jack Arthur, Jean Audree, Faith Bacon, Robert Baldwin, Virginia Bethel, Virginia Biddle, Ethel Borden, Mildred Borst, Frank Britton, Milt Britton, Jack Bruns, John W. Bubbles, Buck & Bubbles, Joan Burgess, Katherine Burke, Alice Burrage, Arthur Campbell, Tito Carol, Gordon Carper, Albert Carroll, Helen Carson, Emmita Casanova, Catherine Clark, The Collette Sisters, Billie Cortez, Dorothy Dell, Netta Deuschateau, Dorothy Dodge, David Drollet, Betty Dumbris, Marguerite Durand, Marguerite Eisele, Georgia Ellis, Kay English, Caja Eric, Clayton Estes, Ruth Etting, Dorothy Flood, Rosa Fromson, Rose Gale, Gladys Glad, Gene Gory, Yvonne Grey, John Gurney, Paul Gursdorff, Cliff Hall, Cassie Hanley, Helen Hannan, Pearl Harris, Eunice Holmes, Jean Howard, Billy Hughes, Russell Johns, Tom Kendall, George Lamar, Frank Lang, Hal Le Roy, Milton Le Roy, Marjorie Levoe, Boots Mallory, Christine Maple, Herschel Martin, Mitzi Mayfair, Lorelle McCarver, Ernest McChesney, Frank McCormack, Dennis McCurtin, Marjorie McLaughlin, Olive McLay, Frieda Mierse, Vera Milton, Grace Moore, Jim Moore, Helen Morgan, John Daly Murphy, Dorissa Nelova, Pat O'Day, Pearl Osgood, Earl Oxford, Anne Lee Patterson, Ruth Patterson, Jack Pearl, Vivian Porter, Betty Real, Mary Alice Rice, Harry Richman, Bernice Roberts, William Royal, A. Samish, Blanche Satchell, Billie Seward, Barbara Smith, Conrad Sparin, Marie Stevens, Leonard Stokes, Lena Thomas, Joseph Toner, Sunny Trowbridge, Robert Walker, Helen Walsh, Eileen Wenzel, Robert White
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6) Smiles (Original)
Joué durant 1 mois 3 semaines
Nb de représentations: 63 représentations
Première preview: 18 November 1930
Première: 18 November 1930
Dernière: 10 January 1931
Compositeur: Vincent Youmans •
Parolier: Clifford Grey • Harold Adamson •
Libettiste: William Anthony McGuire •
Metteur en scène: William Anthony McGuire •
Chorégraphe:
Avec: Arline Aber (Arline), Charline Aber (Charline), Jean Ackerman (Mrs. Brown, Lilian), Larry Adler (Larry), Pirko AlquistAdele Astaire (Dot Hastings), Fred Astaire (Bob Hastings), Mabel Baade (Ensemble), Elsie Behrens (Ensemble), Joey Benton (Ensemble), Virginia Biddle (Ensemble), Dorothy Bow (Ensemble), Bobby Broadsley (Ensemble), Virginia Bruce (Ensemble), Pamela Bryant (Ensemble), Katherine Burke (Ann), Georgia Caine (Mrs. Hastings), Irving Carter (Ensemble), Gordon Clark (Ensemble), Frank Coletti (Slim), Betty Collette (Ensemble), Mary Collins (Mother Jones), Walter Costello (Ensemble), Gertrude Dahl (Ensemble), Louis Delgado (Mr. Green), Clare Dodd (Clara), Marion Dodge (Ensemble), Betty Dumbris (Ensemble), Madeline Dunbar (Ensemble), Marcelle Edwards (Ensemble), Georgia Ellis (Ensemble), Caja Eric (Ensemble), Louise Estes (Ensemble), Dorothy Flood (Ensemble), Eddie Foy, Jr. (Gilbert Stone), Agnes Franey (Ensemble), Paul Gregory (Dick), Maxine Gross (Ensemble), Burnie Halloway (Ensemble), Kathryn Hereford (Pat), Maurine Holmes (Ensemble), Bob Hope (Ensemble), Meredith Howard (Ensemble), Tom Howard (Holy Joe), Ken Huntington (Ensemble), Jackie Hurlbut (Ensemble), Lorraine Jaillet (Madelon), David Johns (Ensemble), Juliette Jordan (Ensemble), Bernard Jukes (Doughface), Harriette Lake (), Marjorie LaVoe (Ensemble), Preston Lewis (Ensemble), Neva Lynn (Ensemble), Joe Lyons (Mackin), Roy Mace (Ensemble), Martha Maggard (Ensemble), Pat Mann (Izzy Cohen), Christine Maple (Ensemble), Rose Mariella (Ensemble), Doris May (Ensemble), Nellie Mayer (Ensemble), Constance McKenzie (Ensemble), Olive McLay (Ensemble), Marilyn Miller (Smiles), Joseph Minitello (Ensemble), Hilda Moreno (Kiki), Ruth Morgan (Miss Parker), Patsy O'Day (Ensemble), Agnes O'Laughlin (Ensemble), Dorothy Patterson (Ensemble), Ruth Patterson (Betty), Peggy Peacock (Ensemble), Edward Raquello (Pierre), Dolores Ray (Ensemble), Anna Rex (Ensemble), Adrian Rosely (Tony), Olga Royce (Ensemble), Charles Sager (Chang Lang Foo), Blanche Satchell (Ensemble), Phil Sheridan (Ensemble), Jack Spinello (Ensemble), Michael Stark (Ensemble), Ward Tallman (Ensemble), Ruth Tara (Ensemble), Norma Taylor (Ensemble), Harry Tighe (Officer Dennis O'Brien), Lee Timmins (Ensemble), Helen Walsh (Ensemble), Jean Warren (Ensemble), Gil White (First Sailor)
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5) Simple Simon (Original Broadway)
Joué durant 3 mois 3 semaines
Nb de représentations: 135 représentations
Première preview: 18 February 1930
Première: 18 February 1930
Dernière: 14 June 1930
Compositeur: Richard Rodgers •
Parolier: Lorenz M. Hart •
Libettiste: Ed Wynn •
Metteur en scène: Zeke Colvan •
Chorégraphe:
Avec: Paul Stanton (Bert Blue, and later Bluebeard), Alfred P. James (Fingy), Will Ahearn (Jack Horner), Bobbe Arnst (Gilly Flower, and later Jill and Jazz), Ed Wynn (Simon), Anthony Hughes (Policeman), Doree Leslie (Elaine King, and later Cinderella), Lennox Pawle (Olee King, and later Old King Cole), Hugh Cameron (Otto Prince), Master George Offermann (Jonah, and later Genii), Gil White (Popper), Alan Edwards (Tony Prince, later Prince Charming), Ruth Etting (Sal), Helen Walsh (Jewel Pearce, Red Riding Hood), Hazel Forbes (Gladys Dove, Rapunsel), Douglas Stanbury (Captain in Dullna Army), Joseph Schrode and Pete La Della (The Horse), Frank DeWitt (The Giant Head), William J. Ferry (The Frog), Harriet Hoctor (Premiere Danseuse, Snow White), Dolores Grant (Little Boy Blue, Bo-Peep), Clementine Rigeau and Elaine Mann (The Wolf, aka Wolff), Agnes Franey and Virginia McNaughton (Goldylocks), Patsy O’Day (Puss in Boots), Elsie Behrens (Hansel), Mable Baade (Gretel), Marie Conway (Cat and the Fiddle), Gladys Pender (The Cow), Dorothy Patterson (The Dog), Lois Peck (The Dish), Neva Lynn (The Spoon), Frieda Mierse (Old Lady in the Shoe), Georgia Payne and Caja Eric (Miss Muffett), Blanche Satchell and Marion Dodge (Fairy Goddesses), Pirkko Alquist (Snow Queen); Ladies of the Ensemble: Caja Eric, Georgia Payne, Vili Milli, Marion Dodge, Helen Walsh, Pirkko Alquist, Frieda Mierse, Blanche Satchell, Neva Lynn, Mildred Ivory, Dolores Grant, Marie Conway, Mary Coyle, Elsie Behrens, Patsy O’Day, Elaine Mann, Mable Baade, Gladys Pender, Dorothy Patterson, Cleo Cullen, Clementine Rigeau, Agnes Franey, Virginia McNaughton, Lois Peck, Hazel Forbes, Howard, O’Laughlin; Gentlemen of the Ensemble: Messrs. Roberts, Alan Edwards, Fowler, Siegel, Uray, Sager, Doctoroff, Mandes, Butterworth, Lewis, Hervey, Costello, Simmons, Hall, Carswell, Gil White, Barry
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Presse: J. Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times reported that Ziegfeld had set Wynn “amid the resplendence of a vast, though unsteady, musical extravaganza.” Wynn was “one of the two or three great comedians of the day,” an “artist who lifts his tomfoolery into the realms of fantasy,” and in Simple Simon he had “never seemed so indisputably great.” He was a “historical event” in “the full ripeness of his art.” But the book struggled “ineffectually” to combine a fairy tale with weak satire about the Puritanism of reformers, and the song cues were “more distressing than usual.” And while Rodgers’s “dappled” melodies “echoe[d] his style without improving it,” Hart’s lyrics were “more sprightly” than the music. Atkinson noted that Etting had “been rushed out of the limbo” of Nine Fifteen Revue and sang “I Still Believe in You” and a “melancholy ballad” from atop a piano (“Ten Cents a Dance”).
Robert Benchley in the New Yorker said the book was “of such banality as to affront even the children for whom it was written,” but Wynn offered “a riot of rich comedy” that was “nothing short of legerdemain.” The “Hunting Ballet” was the season’s “top” dance sequence, Urban had “let himself go with his paintbrush with spectacular effect,” and Rodgers and Hart had provided a “potpourri of pleasant tunes” (but he noted they had delved “slightly into their files” [see below]).
An unsigned review in Time suggested that “I Still Believe in You” was “one of the best” songs ever written by Rodgers and Hart, and mentioned that children would “hugely enjoy” the evening and their elders would “profitably join them.” Richard Lockridge in the New York Sun said Ziegfeld had “perhaps never produced a musical extravaganza which held more to delight the eye.” Arthur Ruhl in the New York Herald Tribune praised the “large, radiant and altogether attractive show” and said Wynn was “almost a whole show in himself.” And the headline for Gilbert W. Gabriel’s review in the New York American announced that Simple Simon was “Superlatively Fanciful, Colorful and Innocent.”
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4) Bitter Sweet (Original Broadway)
Joué durant 3 mois 1 semaine
Première preview: Inconnu
Première: 05 November 1929
Dernière: 15 February 1930
Compositeur: Noël Coward •
Parolier: Noël Coward •
Libettiste: Noël Coward •
Metteur en scène: Noël Coward •
Chorégraphe:
Avec: Act One, Scene One (London, 1929)
Trevor Glyn (Parker), Audrey Pointing (Dolly Chamberlain), Patrick Ludlow (Lord Henry), Max Kirby (Vincent Howard), Evelyn Laye (The Marchioness of Shayne), Joan Stanbrough (Nita), Constance Perrin (Helen), Cecile Maule-Cole (Jackie); Guests: Leah Warne, Gladys Hay-Dillon, Mildred Allen-Letts, Eva Scott-Thompson, Kathleen Holt, Pauline Desmond, Sybil Davidson, Peggy Lovat, Vera Caprice, Edna Earle, Vicky Lynn, Cecile Maule-Cole, Iris White, Marjorie Simpson, George Woof, Alfred Fairhurst, Mervyn Pearce, Anthony Neville, Reginald Allen, Noel Clifford, Herbert Garry, Claude Brittin-Eldred, Richard Thorpe, Paul Spender-Clay, Bruce Anderson, Hugh Cuenod, Roy Arcourt, William Dawson; Musicians: Sydney Perlstone, Kenneth Burston, Arthur Woolf, Edmond Ford, Jack Haywood
Act One, Scene Two (London, 1875)
Evelyn Laye (Sarah Millick), Gerald Nodin (Carl Linden), Isabel Ohmead (Mrs. Millick), Tracy Holmes (Mr. Hugh Devon)
Act One, Scene Three (London, 1875)
Gerald Nodin (Carl Linden), Kay Lambelet (Lady Devon), Isabel Ohmead (Mrs. Millick), Tracy Holmes (Mr. Hugh Devon), Charles Mortimer (Sir Arthur Fenchurch), Evelyn Laye (Sarah Millick), Donald Gordon (The Marquis of Steere), Richard Thorpe (Lord Edgar James), Hooper Russell (Lord Sorrel), Leslie Bannister (Mr. Vale), Anthony Neville (Mr. Bethel), Douglas Graeme-Brooke (Mr. Proutie), Marjorie Raymonde (Victoria), Audrey Pointing (Harriet), Nancy Brown (Gloria), Isla Bevan (Honor), Winifred Talbot (Jane), Vesta Sylva (Effie), Graham Yarborough (Footman), Trevor Glynn (Footman), John W. Thompson (Footman), Albert Chapman (Footman); Guests: Elsie Hulme, Iris White, Isabel Marden, Kathleen Holt, Peggy Lovat, Jane Moore, Sybil Davidson, Myfanwy Jenkins, Cecile Maule-Cole, Mildred Allen-Letts, Vera Caprice, Mary David, Roma Presano, Joan Stanbrough, Doris Colston, Leonora Hilton, Pauline Desmond, Gladys Hay-Dillon, Joyce Fletcher, Eva Scott-Thompson, Cunningham Glen, George Woof, Alfred Fairhurst, Noel Clifford, Herbert Garry, William Herbert, Claude Brittin-Eldred, James Reid, Mervyn Pearce, Roy Hall, James Prescott, Paul Spender-Clay, Reginald Allen, Bruce Anderson, Hugh Cuenod, Louis Miller; Musicians: Sydney Perlstone, Kenneth Burston, Arthur Woolf, Edmond Ford, Vernon Rudolf
Act Two, Scene One (Vienna, 1880)
Waiters: Paul Spender-Clay, Claude Brittin-Eldred, James Reid, Bruce Anderson, Anthony Neville, William McGuigan; Cleaners: Roma Presano, Isabel Marden, Leonta Proctor, Gladys Hay-Dillon, Enid Settle, Elsie Hulme; Peter Donald Jr. (Piccolo), Zoe Gordon (Lotte), Nancy Barnett (Freda), Dorothy Debenham (Hansi), Sylvia Leslie (Gussi), Gerald Nodin (Carl Linden), Mireille (Manon, aka La Crevette), Desmond Jeans (Captain August Lutte), Charles Mortimer (Herr Schlick), Evelyn Laye (Sari Linden); Musicians: Sydney Perlstone, Kenneth Burston, Edmond Ford, Eddie Lisbona, Vernon Rudolf
Act Two, Scene Two (Vienna, 1880)
Evelyn Laye (Sari Linden), Zoe Gordon (Lotte), Desmond Jeans (Captain Lutte), Sylvia Leslie (Gussie), Louis Miller (Lieutenant Tranisch), Dorothy Debenham (Hansi), Nancy Barnett (Freda), Charles Mortimer (Herr Schlick); The Prater Girls: Girls—Sybil Davidson, Cecile Maule-Cole, Vicky Lynn; and Boys—Leah Warne, Edna Earle, Peggy Blake; Mireille (Manon, aka La Crevette); Officers, Guests, Waiters, Musicians: Hooper Russell, Leslie Bannister, Donald Gordon, Roy Hall, Gordon Brand, Douglas Graeme-Brooke, Hugh Cuenod, John W. Thompson, Trevor Glynn, Herbert Garry, Graham Yarborough, Gustav Wallenberg, Paul Spender-Clay, Claude Brittin-Eldred, James Reid, Bruce Anderson, Anthony Neville, William McGuigan, Isabel Marden, Elsie Hulme, Constance Perrin, Iris White, Roma Presano, Mary David, Leonora Hilton, Enid Settle, Gladys Hay-Dillon, Doris Colston, Joan Stanbrough, Pauline Desmond, Joyce Fletcher, Myfanwy Jenkins, Peggy Lovat, Jane Moore, Kathleen Holt, Vera Caprice, Leonta Proctor, Mildred Allen-Letts, Eva Scott-Thompson, Leah Russell, Marcel Turner, Patrick Ludlow, James Cameron, William Dawson, Reginald Allen, Albert Chapman, Richard Thorpe, George Woof, James Prescott, Tracy Holmes, Alfred Fairhurst, Mervyn Pearce, Cunningham Glen, Noel Clifford, William Herbert
Act Three, Scene One (London, 1895)
Albert Chapman (Burley), John Evelyn (The Marquis of Shayne), Vesta Sylva (Mrs. Bethel, aka Effie), Anthony Neville (Mr. Bethel), Winifred Talbot (Mrs. Vale, aka Jane), Leslie Bannister (Mr. Vale), Nancy Brown (Mrs. Proutie, aka Gloria), Douglas Graeme-Brooke (Mr. Proutie), Marjorie Raymonde (The Duchess of Tenterton, aka Victoria), Donald Gordon (The Duke of Tenterton), Isla Bevan (Lady Sorrell, aka Honor), Hooper Russell (Lord Sorrel), Audrey Pointing (Lady Edgar James, aka Harriet), Richard Thorpe (Lord Edgar James), Tracy Holmes (Sir Hugh Devon), Jane Moore (Lady Devon), Evelyn Laye (Madame Sari Linden), William Herbert (Vernon Craft), Paul Spender-Clay (Cedric Ballantyne), Hugh Cuenod (Bertram Sellick), George Woof (Lord Henry Jade), Eddie Lisbona (Accompanist to Madame Linden); Guests: Constance Perrin, Leah Warne, Cecile Maule-Cole, Joyce Fletcher, Leah Russell, Myfanwy Jenkins, Iris White, Joan Stanbrough, Kathleen Holt, Vera Caprice, Roma Presano, Elsie Hulme, Gladys Hay-Dillon, Peggy Lovat, Pauline Desmond, Doris Colston, Enid Settle, Mildred Allen-Letts, Leonora Hilton, Isabel Marden, Eva Scott-Thompson, Sybil Davidson, Leonta Proctor, John W. Thompson, James Prescott, James Reid, William Herbert, Graham Yarborough, Trevor Glynn, Claude Brittin-Eldred, Alfred Fairhurst, Roy Hall, Reginald Allen, Herbert Garry, Bruce Anderson, William Dawson, William McGuigan, Gustav Wallenberg, Mervyn Pearce, Noel Clifford
Act Three, Scene Two (London, 1929)
The script indicates that “everyone” on stage at the end of the first scene in the first act is now seen “in the same positions.” The three main principals in this scene are: Evelyn Laye (Sarah), Audrey Pointing (Dolly), and Max Kirby (Vincent).
Commentaire: Transféré au Shubert Theatre (17/2/1930 > 22/3/1930) (plus)
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Original
3) Show Girl (Original)
Joué durant 3 mois
Nb de représentations: 111 représentations
Première preview: 02 July 1929
Première: 02 July 1929
Dernière: 05 October 1929
Compositeur: George Gershwin •
Parolier: Gus Kahn • Ira Gershwin •
Libettiste: William Anthony McGuire •
Metteur en scène: William Anthony McGuire •
Chorégraphe:
Avec: Jimmie (later known as Jimmy) Durante (Sombre Eyes, Snozzle), Calvin Thomas (Colonel Witherby, Stage Manager), Althea Heinly (Aunt Jennie, Estelle), Barbara Newberry (Virginia Witherby, Sunshine), Matthew Smith (Robert Adams), Blaien Cordner (Steve), Andy Jochim (Frank, Mr. Wright), Wanda Stevenson (Bessie), Noel Francis (Peggy Ritz), Lou Clayton (Gypsy), Eddie Jackson (Deacon, Tony Morato), Joseph Macaulay (Alvarez Romano), Doris Carson (Raquel), Frank McHugh (Jimmy Doyle), Howard Morgan (Matt Brown), Ruby Keeler (also billed as Ruby Keeler Jolson) (Dixie Dugan), Caryl Bergman (Anna, Sylvia), Eddie Foy Jr. (Denny Kerrigan), Kathryn Hereford (Bobby), Nick Lucas (Rudy), Austin Fairman (John Milton), Sadie Duff (Mrs. Dugan); Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra; The Albertina Rasch Dancers: Mildred Turner, Vera Frederick, Virginia Whitmore, Lucille O’Connor, Agatha Johann, Virginia Allen, Ruth Hayden, Dorothy Morgan, Evelyn Nichols, Dona Dene Curry, Sunny Van, Ruth Love, Viola Hage, Eddie Belmont, Dorothy Ryan, Louise Raymond; Show Girls: Althea Heinly, Blanche Satchel, Gertrude Dahl, Mary MacDonald, Ada Landis, Edna Bunte, Betty Bassett, Mildred Schwenke, Moreen Holmes, Dorothy Carrigan, Dolores De Fina, Doris Downes, Caja Eric, Georgia Payne, Camilla Lanier, Mildred Klaw, Leonia Pennington; Dancers: Pat O’Keefe, Virginia Frank, Cleo Cullen, Bobby Brodsley, Jean Althan, Selma Althan, Jane Barry, Peggy Carthew, Beatrice Powers, Dolores Grant, Pamela Bryant, Janet Gibbard, Dorothy Bow, Lois Peck, Vivian Porter, Florence Allen, Virginia Case, Katherine Downer, Juliette Jones, Doris May, Patricia McGrath, Orine Bryne, Rena Landeau, Claire Wayne, Jean Wayne, Alma Drange, Mildred De Fina, Lottie Marcy, Dolores Ray, Hazel Bofinger, Kae English, Marcia Bell, Emily Burton, Billie Cortez, Wanda Stevenson, Violet Dell, Dore Nodine
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Presse: J. Brooks Atkinson in the Times noted that Ziegfeld had given the show a “lustrous splendor,” but the “task of blending materials that are episodic and individual” made the new musical “the least notable” of Ziegfeld’s recent shows. Throughout the evening you were “constantly aware of banalities and awkward transitions” and you missed “the stately flow of the best Ziegfeld pageants.” Keeler was now “on her way to fame on Broadway” and was an “enjoyable” performer “without pretentions and affectations,” and while Durante’s “personality” managed to batter “through all barriers,” his “sizzling energy” and “spluttering, insane material” didn’t “melt gracefully into a musical comedy book.” Gershwin’s contributions had “moments of vividness or melody,” but he hadn’t composed “a first-rate score.”
Charles Brackett in the New Yorker found the adaptation “soggily” written, and noted it was Gershwin’s “weakest” score, and Burns Mantle in the Tampa Tribune said the “elaborate and bountifully decorated” show was “the nearest thing” to a financial “miss” that Ziegfeld had produced during the past five years (perhaps he’d forgotten about Betsy).
But Percy Hammond in the Oakland (CA) Tribune said Show Girl was “as satisfactory a musical show as I have ever seen,” and while he noted that Jolson’s “Liza” was a “priceless moment,” it nonetheless “detracted a little” from Keeler’s “brilliant success.” Grace Cutler in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle said that for the “entertaining” show Urban had “outdone himself in scenic effects” and Keeler excelled “in voice, in gesture, [and] routine tap-dancing.” But Gershwin’s music was (with the exception of “Do What You Do!”) a “little disappointing,” Durante was “hampered” by his fellow comics, and Foy “by no means” made the most of his part.
Frederick F. Schrader in the Cincinnati Enquirer said “the most pleasing feature” of the musical was Urban’s décor; otherwise, Gershwin’s score was “breezy” and “sometimes original.” Variety decided the show’s “main trouble” was the “music and the lack of it in a popular way,” but noted Durante got a “peach spot” for two of his specialties, including the “bear” of a song “So I Ups to Him” (the critic reported that the “house rocked” with Durante’s “snapper” line that someone was a “fairy”).
Ward Greene in the Indianapolis Star noted that Whoopee made Keeler famous, “especially when she walked out on the show,” that her marriage to Jolson “hit the front pages of a hundred cities,” and “as a dancer not even Marilyn Miller in her gayest days excels Ruby.” But in regard to Jolson’s “Liza” moment, Greene suspected Jolson might not “continue to give this little surprise party to his darling wife,” who “in time” might “appreciate it less and less.”
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2) Show Boat (Original)
Joué durant 1 an 1 mois 1 semaine
Nb de représentations: 527 représentations
Première preview: Inconnu
Première: 27 December 1927
Dernière: 04 February 1929
Compositeur: Jerome Kern •
Parolier: Oscar Hammerstein II •
Libettiste: Oscar Hammerstein II •
Metteur en scène: Oscar Hammerstein II • Zeke Colvan •
Chorégraphe: Sammy Lee •
Avec: Windy ... Allan Campbell
Steve ... Charles Ellis
Pete ... Bert Chapman
Queenie ... Aunt Jemima
Parthy Ann Hawks ... Edna May Oliver
Cap'n Andy ... Charles Winninger
Ellie ... Eva Puck
Frank ... Sammy White
Rubber Face ... Francis X. Mahoney
Julie ... Helen Morgan
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