- (1922 - 1981) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1922) Stage Play: Hamlet. Tragedy (revival). Written by William Shakespeare. Incidental music by Robert Russell Bennett [earliest Broadway credit]. Musical Director: Maurice Nitke. Production Design by Robert Edmond Jones. Lighting Design by George Schaff. Directed by Arthur Hopkins. Sam H. Harris Theatre: 16 Nov 1922- Feb 1923 (closing date unknown/101 performances). Cast: John Barrymore (as "Hamlet, son to the late, and nephew to the present King"), Lowden Adams, E.J. Ballantine (as "Marcellus / Officer"), Frank Boyd, Lawrence Cecil (as "Guildenstern / Courtier"), John Clark, Cecil Clovelly (as "Gravedigger"), Stephanie D'Este, Rosalinde Fuller (as "Ophelia, daughter to Polonius"), Frank Hearn, Paul Huber (as "Rosencrantz/Courtier"), Whitford Kane (as "Gravedigger"), Frederick Lewis, Burnel Lundee, Sydney Mather, John S. O'Brien, Reginald Pole, Tyrone Power Sr. (as "Claudius, King of Denmark"), Richard Skinner, Edgar Stehli (as "Osric, a Courtier"), Lark Taylor (as "Bernardo/Player"), Vadini Uraneff, Blanche Yurka (as "Gertrude"). Produced by Arthur Hopkins.
- (1922) Stage Play: The Clinging Vine. Musical comedy. Book by Zelda Sears. Music by Harold Levey. Lyrics by Zelda Sears. Musical Director: Harold A. Levey. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Costume Design by Peggy Hoyt. Scenic Design by William Castle. Musical Staging by Julian Alfred. Directed by Ira Hards. Knickerbocker Theatre: 25 Dec 1922-2 Jun 1923 (188 performances). Cast: Cast: Josephine Adair (as "Mildred Mayo"), Jane Arrol, Virginia Clark, Raymond Crane, Eleanor Dawn, Charles Derickson Jimmy Manning, Irene Dunne (as "Tessie"), Jean Ferguson, Louise Galloway, Earl Gates, William C. Gordon, Royal Hallee, Helen Hipkins, Christian Holtum, Bradford Hunt, Eleanor Livingston, James C. Marlowe, Roy Marvin, Florence McGuire, Reginald Pasch, William Rogers, Louise Scheerer, Charles Schofield, Rosa Vera, Nathaniel Wagner, Margery Wall, Joyce White, Victoria White, Peggy Wood (as "Antoinette Allen"). Produced by Henry W. Savage.
- (1923) Stage Play: Wildflower. Musical. Music by Herbert Stothart and Vincent Youmans. Book and Lyrics by Otto A. Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Gowns and Costumes Designed by Charles Le Maire. Scenic Design by Gates & Morange. Choreographed by David Bennett. Directed by Oscar Eagle. Casino Theatre: 7 Feb 1923- 29 Mar 1924 (477 performances). Cast: Edith Day (as "Nina Benedetto"), Florence Ashton, Evelyn Cavanaugh, Viola Clarens, Elizabeth Coyle, Jerome Daley, James Doyle, Charles Froom, Frank Grinell, Muriel Harrison, Adele Hart, Agnes Horter, Esther Howard (as "Lucrezia La Roche"), Olin Howland (as "Gabrielle"), Robert Hurst, Charles Judels (as "Gaston La Roche"), Al Kinley, Louis Laub, Helen Lewis, Ursula Mack, Genevieve Markham, Beverly Maude, William McGurn, Myrtle Miller, Margaret Morris, Verona Oakley, Marie Otto, Marion Phillips, Paul Porter, Marion Randall, Martinez Randall, Guy Robertson, Kenneth Smith, Sybil Steward, Peggy Stohl, Emmy Tattersall, Marjorie Wood. Produced by Arthur Hammerstein.
- (1923) Stage Play: Stepping Stones. Musical comedy/fantasy. Music by Jerome Kern. Book by Anne Caldwell and R.H. Burnside. Lyrics by Anne Caldwell. Musical Director: Victor Baravalle [credited as Victor Baravelle]. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Choreographed by Mary Read and John Tiller. Directed by R.H. Burnside. Globe Theatre: 6 Nov 1923- 4 Oct 1924 (on hiatus from 1 Jun 1924- 30 Aug 1924/281 performances). Cast: Primrose Caryll (as "Radiola"), Lucille Elmore (as "Mary"), Cynthia Foley (as "Richard"), Gerald Gilbert (as "Antoine"), Hazel Glen (as "Rose"), Evelyn Herbert (as "Lupina") [Broadway debut], George Herman (as "The Landlord"), Roy Hoyer (as "Prince Silvio"), Bert Jordan (as "Gypsy Jan"), John Lambert (as "Remus"), Francetta Malloy (as "Charlotte"), William Murray (as "Antoine"), Oscar Ragland (as "Otto DeWolfe"), Lydia Scott (as "Nurse Marjorie"), Allene Stone (as "Widow Hood"), Dorothy Stone (as "Rougette Hood"), Fred Stone Peter Plug"), Willie Torpey (as "Eddie"), Frederic Tozere (as "Captain Paul"), Harold West (as "Richard"), Lilyan White (as "Charlotte"), Ruth White (as "Eclaire"), Jack Whiting (as "Captain Paul"). Replacement actors: Alice Akers (as "Ensemble"), Dorothy Bate (as "Ensemble"), Phyllis Brown (as "Ensemble"), Noreen Callow (as "Ensemble"), Lydia Campbell (as "Ensemble"), Doris Carter (as "Ensemble"), Maida Clewley (as "Ensemble"), Betty Darling (as "Ensemble"), Lucille Darling (as "Ensemble"), Josie Elton (as "Ensemble"), Hazel Glen (as "Lupina"), Ona Hamilton (as "Ensemble"), Edith Harvey (as "Ensemble"), Ruth Hurst (as "Ensemble"), Sallie Hurst (as "Ensemble"), Maude Jerome (as "Ensemble"), Doris Landy (as "Ensemble"), Dorothy Markey (as "Ensemble"), Geraldine Markham (as "Ensemble"), Muriel Marlowe (as "Ensemble"), Dolly Maxted (as "Ensemble"), Dolly Moseley (as "Ensemble"), Ida Moseley (as "Ensemble"), Mary Pearce (as "Ensemble"), Alice Pittman (as "Ensemble"), Louise Powell (as "Ensemble"), Madge Read (as "Ensemble"), Hazelle Renaud (as "Ensemble"), Adelaide Robinson (as "Ensemble"), Betty Roche (as "Ensemble"), Helen Roche (as "Ensemble"), Dorothy Sabin (as "Ensemble"), Doris Smith (as "Ensemble"), Chrissie Spaller (as "Ensemble"), Florence Stack (as "Ensemble"), Dolly Stanley (as "Ensemble"), Jet Stanley (as "Eclaire"), Olga Sykes (as "Ensemble"), Jean Webb (as "Ensemble"). Produced by Charles B. Dillingham.
- (1924) Stage Play: Lollipop. Musical comedy. Music by Vincent Youmans. Book by Zelda Sears. Lyrics by Zelda Sears and Walter De Leon. Musical Director: Russell Tarbox. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Directed by Ira Hards. Knickerbocker Theatre: 21 Jan 1924- 31 May 1924 (152 performances). Cast: Connie Aldis (as "Ensemble"), Adora Andrews (as "Mrs. Mason"), Doris Carter (as "Ensemble"), Leonard Ceiley (as "Don Carlos"), April Child (as "Ensemble"), Lucille Constant (as "Ensemble"), Guerida Crawford (as "Ensemble"), Walter Crisham (as "Ensemble"), Bobby Culbertson (as "Ensemble"), Eleanor Dana (as "Ensemble"), Gloria Dawn (as "Virginia"), Addison Fowler (as "Specialty Dancer"), Ethel Fraser (as "Ensemble"), Pat Fraser (as "Ensemble"), Elsa Gray (as "Ensemble"), Royal Halee (as "Ensemble"), Ethel Helliwell (as "Ensemble"), Elsie Holt (as "Ensemble"), Katherine Huth (as "Ensemble"), Mary Jayne (as "Ensemble"), Carol Joyce (as "Ensemble") [Broadway debut], Carl Judd (as "Ensemble"), Evelyn Kindler (as "Ensemble"), Charles King (as "Ensemble"), Nick Long (as "Omar K. Garrity"), Vera Longren (as "Ensemble"), Muriel Marlowe (as "Ensemble"), Ada May (as "Laura Lamb"), Florence McCabe (as "Ensemble"), Aline McGill (as "Tessie"), Edith Morgan (as "Ensemble"), Katherine Odell (as "Ensemble"), Veronica Preston (as "Ensemble"), Harry Puck (as "Bill Geohagen"), George Rand (as "Ensemble"), Harold Raymond (as "Ensemble"), Louise Scheerer (as "Ensemble"), Zelda Sears (as "Mrs. Gerrity"), Gus Shy (as "George Jones"), Mark Smith (as "Parkinson"), Virginia Smith (as "Petunia"), Leonard St. Leo (as "Adrian"), Karl Stall (as "Lindsay"), Norene Swinton (as "Ensemble"), Florenz Tamara (as "Specialty Dancer"), Ruth Tester (as "Ensemble"), Charles Townshend (as "Ensemble"), Maude Troup (as "Ensemble"), Florence Webber (as "Helene"), Alice Wright (as "Ensemble"). Produced by Henry W. Savage.
- (1924) Stage Play: Sitting Pretty. Musical comedy. Book by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse. Music by Jerome Kern. Lyrics by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Scenic Design by P. Dodd Ackerman. Costume Design by Charles LeMaire and Alice O'Neil. Directed by Fred G. Latham and Julian Alfred. Fulton Theatre (moved to the Imperial Theatre on 9 Jun 1924- close): 8 Apr 1924- 28 Jun 1924 (95 performances). Cast: Alice Akers (as "Empress' Attendant/Ensemble"), Terry Blaine (as "Jane"), Gertrude Bryan (as "May Tolliver"), Roger Buckley (as "Ensemble"), Rudolph Cameron (as "Bill Pennington"), Betty Campbell (as "Ensemble"), Jean Castleton (as "Ensemble"), Jayne Chesney (as "Wilhelmina/Florence Nightingale"), May Clark (as "Louisa M. Alcott/Ensemble"), Virginia Clark Ensemble"), Marian Dickson (as "Wilhelmina/Ensemble"), Marjorie Eggleston (as "Mrs. Wagstaff/Rachel"), Jean Emerson (as "Ensemble"), Edward Finley (as "Jasper/Stonewall Jackson"), Frieda Fitzgerald (as "Harriet Beecher Stowe/Ensemble"), Dwight Frye (as "Horace"), Irene Griffith (as "Ensemble"), Myra Hampton (as "Babe LaMarr"), Dorothy Janice (as "Empress Eugenie"), Katherine Kohler (as "Ensemble"), Edouard Lefebvre (as "Ensemble"), Harry Lillford (as "Roper"), George E. Mack (as "Mr. Pennington"), Harriet Marned (as "Ensemble"), Earl Marvin (as "Ensemble"), Dana Mayo (as "Ensemble"), Frank McIntyre (as "Joe"), Marietta O'Brien (as "Barbara Frietchie/Ensemble"), George O'Donnell (as "Bolt/Ensemble"), Marion Phillips (as "Ensemble"), William Powers (as "Ensemble"), Eugene Revere (as "Judson Waters"), Phyllis Reynolds (as "Ensemble"), Charles Sabin (as "Ensemble"), Louise Segal (as "Converse Ensemble"), Queenie Smith (as "Dixie"), George Spelvin (as "Professor Appleby"), George Sylvester (as "Otis/Edgar Allan Poe"), Gertrude Waixel (as "Ensemble"), Charlotte Wakefield (as "George Sand/Ensemble"), Doris Waldron (as "Ensemble"), Winthrop Wayne (as "Jenny Lind/Ensemble"), Dorothy West (as "Ensemble/Empress' Attendant"), Albert White (as "Ensemble"), Albert Wyart (as "James"). Produced by F. Ray Comstock and Morris Gest.
- (1924) Stage Play: Ziegfeld Follies of 1924. Musical revue. Music by Victor Herbert, Raymond Hubbell, Dave Stamper, Harry Tierney and Dr. Albert Szirmai. Lyrics by Gene Buck and Joseph McCarthy. Dialogue by: William Anthony McGuire and Will Rogers. Musical Director: Victor Baravalle. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett, Fred Barry, Harold Sanford and Steven Jones. Featuring songs by Fred Mels and Leon Jessel. Featuring songs with lyrics by Laurant Halet. Directed by Julian Mitchell. New Amsterdam Theatre: 24 Jun 1924- 7 Mar 1925 (295 performances). Cast included: Bernice Ackerman, Miss Andrea, Lina Basquette, Marian Benda, Miss Boatwright, Arthur Brown, Dorothy Brown, Catherine Burke, Miss Byron, Miss Calame, Cynthia Cambridge, Louise Carlton, Mae Daw, Gloria Dawn [final Broadway role], Alma Drange, Giole Eller, Helen Ellsworth, Hilda Ferguson, Irving Fisher, Miss Francis, Evelyn Goodwin, Beryl Halley, Lorette Hurley, Alf James, Miss Johnson, Mary Julian, Kelo Brothers, Dorothy Knapp, Frank Lambert, Lupino Lane, Evelyn Law, Edna Leedom, Dorothy Leet, Marjorie Leet, Tom Lewis, Miss Littlefield, Doris Lloyd, Gladys Loftus, Martha Lorber, Miss Martin, Miss McDonald, Miss McGee, Constance McLaughlin, Mitty and Tillio, Polly Nally, Al Ochs, George Olsen's Band, Ann Pennington, Serge Pernikoff, Martha Pierre, Miss Rasche, Anastasia Reilly, Francis Reveaux, Will Rogers, Russian Lilliputians, Phil Ryley, Vivienne Segal, Jack Shannon, Miss Sheldon, Mark Truscott, Brandon Tynan, Miss Wildo, Cricket Wooten. Produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr..
- (1924) Stage Play: The Magnolia Lady. Musical revue. Book by Anne Caldwell. Based on a comedy by A.E. Thomas and Alice Duer Miller. Lyrics by Anne Caldwell. Music by Harold Levy. Musical Director: Harold Levy. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Scenic Design by William Castle. Directed by Hassard Short. Shubert Theatre: 25 Nov 1924- 3 Jan 1925 (47 performances). Cast: Mary Adams, Virginia Beardsley, Tom Chadwick, Ruth Chatterton, Harriet Chetwynd, Hazel Clayton, Frank Doane, Bertha Donn, Worthe Faulkner, Nellie Fillmore, Bernice Furrow, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Helen Haines, Halcyone Hargrove, George Jefferson, Sara Johnson, Katherine Kohler, Julia Lane, Lovey Lee, Ethel Martin, Edward McCullough, Tom Morrison, John Munster, George O'Brien, Bland O'Connell, Lucille Osborne, Carl Rose, Louis Sears, Virginia Sharr, Muriel Stryker, Billy Taylor, Ward Van Ness, Minor Watson, Emma Wyche. Produced by Henry Miller.
- (1924) Stage Play: Lady, Be Good. Musical comedy. Music by George Gershwin. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Based on material by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson. Musical Director: Paul Lannin. Music orchestrated by Paul Lannin, Robert Russell Bennett, Charles Grant, Stephen Jones, Max Steiner and William Daly. Musical direction by Sammy Lee. Directed by Felix Edwardes. Liberty Theatre: 1 Dec 1924-12 Sep 1925 (330 performances). Cast: Victor Arden, Ward Arnold, Adele Astaire, Fred Astaire, Jayne Auburn, Charles Bannister, James Bradbury, Walter Catlett, Patricia Clarke, Hal Crusins, Richard Devonshire, Dorothy Donovan, Alan Edwards, 'Cliff Edwards' (as "Jeff"), Edna Farrell, Jack Fraley, Alfred Hale, Peggy Hart, Maxine Henry, Dorothy Hollis, Harry Howell, Dorothy Hughes, Mary Hutchinson, Madeline Janis, Edward Jephson, Jeanearl Johnson, Grace Jones, Elmira Lahmann, Charles LaValle, Ethel Lind, Frances Lindell, Gertrude Livingstone, Bryan Lycan, 'Lionel Maclyn' (as "Ensemble"), Kathlene Martyn, Lillian Mitchell, Esther Morris, Francis Murphy, Phil Ohman, Tony Otto, Jessie Payne, Peggy Pitou, Peggy Quinn, Richard Renaud, Sylvia Shawn, Gerald Oliver Smith, Daniel Sparks, Mildred Stevens, Doris Waldron, Irene Wiley, Paulette Winston. Produced by Vinton Freedley and Alex Aarons.
- (1925) Stage Play: Ziegfeld Follies of 1925. Musical revue. Sketches by J.P. McEvoy, Will Rogers, W.C. Fields and Gus Weinberg. Music by Raymond Hubbell, Dave Stamper and Werner Janssen. Lyrics by Gene Buck. Musical Director: Louis Gress. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett, Fred Barry, Harold Sandford and Steven Jones. Featuring songs by Leo Daniderff. Directed by Julian Mitchell. Tableaux staged by Ben Ali Haggin. New Amsterdam Theatre: 6 Jul 1925- 19 Sep 1925 (88 performances). Cast: Lina Basquette, Bertha Belmore, Marion Benda, Louise Brooks, Katherine Burke, Cynthia Cambridge, Elise Cavanna, Elsie Cavanna, Bob Chase, Chaz Chase, Harriet Chetwynd, Dare and Wahl, Ray Dooley, Alma Drange, Peggy Fears, Hilda Ferguson, W.C. Fields, Irving Fisher, Norma Forrest, Noel Francis, Evelyn Goodwin, Beryl Halley, Al Hardy, Helen Henderson, Marion Hurley, Naomi Johnson, Flo Kennedy, Dorothy Knapp, Frank Lambert, Edna Leedom, Marjorie Leet, Doris Lloyd, Gladys Loftus, Helen MacFadden, Tommy Mack, Virginia Magee, Gertrude Michaels, Mary Mulhern, Barbara Newberry, Clarence Nordstrom, Al Ochs, George Olsen's Band, Frances Reveaux, Will Rogers, Adelaide Seaman, Vivienne Segal, Jack Shannon, Ethel Shutta, Dave Stamper, Bobby Storey, The Kelo Brothers, Mark Truscott, Brandon Tynan, Vangie Valentine, Dorothy Van Alst, Cricket Wooten. Produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
- (1925) Stage Play: Sunny. Musical comedy. Book by Otto A. Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. Music by Jerome Kern. Lyrics by Otto A. Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. Musical Director: Gustave Salzer. Music arranged by Robert Russell Bennett. Scenic Design by James Reynolds. Costume Design by James Reynolds. Dances arranged by Julian Mitchell and Dave Bennett. Marilyn Miller's Hunt Ball dance arranged by Alexis Kosloff. Eight Marilyn Miller Cocktails' dances arranged by Dorothy Tiller. Directed by Hassard Short. New Amsterdam Theatre: 22 Sep 1925- 11 Dec 1926 (517 performances). Cast: Marilyn Miller, Charles Angelo, Alfred Arnold, Russell Ash, Jean Audree, William Bennett, Alice Brady, Mary Brady, Elmer Brown, Irving Carter, Gordon B. Clarke, Virginia Clark, Joan Clement, Vera Colburn, May Cornes, Miriam Crosby, Elizabeth Darling, Beatrice De Shaw, Frank Doane, Jack Donohue, Nellie Douglas, Dorothy Durland, Walter Fairmont, Jeanne Fonda, Paul Frawley, Dean Freeman, Helene Gardner, Eddie Graham, Pauline Hall, Louis Harrison, Mary Hay, Grace Holt, Esther Howard, Wensley Johnston, Ray Justus, Pert Kelton, Julia Lane, Myrtle Lane, Helen McDonald, Trude Marr, Lucy Monroe, Lee Moore, Roy Moore, Bill O'Donnell, Donald Oltrash, 'Elsa Peterson', Nickie Pittell, Elva Pomfret, Richard Renaud, Phyllis Reynolds, Leila Riley, Minard Roosa, Don Rowen, Rita Royce, William Scholar Jr., Iris Smith, Peggy Soden, Harry Spencer, Hilda Wynn Stanley, Jet Stanley, Louise Starck, Marshall D. Sullivan, Marion Swords, Ward Tallman, Ayres Tavitt, Norma Taylor, Billy Walsh, Clifton Webb, Maxine Wells, Ted Wenning, Doris Wentworth, James Wilson, Louis Yaeckel. Produced by Charles B. Dillingham. Note: Filmed by First National Pictures as Sunny (1930).
- (1925) Stage Play: The City Chap. Musical comedy. (1925). Stage Play: The City Chap. Musical comedy. Music by Jerome Kern. Book by James Montgomery. Lyrics by Anne Caldwell. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Musical Director: Victor Baravalle. Choreographed by David Bennett. Directed by R.H. Burnside. Liberty Theatre: 26 Oct 1925-26 Dec 1925 (72 performances). Cast: Charles S. Abbe (as "Sam Graham"), Betty Block, Bobbie Breslaw, Constance Brown, Katherine Burnside, Phyllis Cleveland, Betty Compton (as "Betty"), Myrtle Cox, Ursula Dale, Frisco Devere, Frank Doane (as "Blinkey Lockwood"), Peggy Dolan, Francis X. Donegan, Irene Dunne (as "Grace Bartlett"), Pearl Eaton (as "Pearl"), Helyn Eby Rock, Jeanne Edwards, Kathleen Erroll, Rita Farrell, Patricia Fitzpatrick, Edythe Flynn, Georges Fontanna, 'Richard "Skeets' Gallagher' (as "Nat Duncan"), Eddie Girard, Danzi Goodell, Ona Hamilton, Muriel Harrison, Beatrice Hughes, Mary Jane, Nell Kincaid, Katherine Kohler, Gladys Lake, Jane Lane, Fred Lennox, Joan Lindsay, Hallie Manning, Jerry Markham, Beth Meakins, Lucy Monroe, Margaret Morris, Marjorie Moss, Bessie Mulligan, Robert Emmett O'Connor (as "Pete"), Mary Pierce, Nickie Pitell, George Raft (as "George Spelvin"), Jack Rutherford [credited as John Rutherford] (as "Stephen Kellogg"), Autumn Sims, Mildred Sinclair, Blossom Vreeland, Ina Williams, Hansford Wilson, Betty Winslow. Produced by Charles B. Dillingham.
- (1925) Stage Play: Song of the Flame. Musical/opera/romance. Music by Herbert Stothart and George Gershwin. Book by Otto A. Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. Lyrics by Otto A. Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. Musical Director: Herbert P. Stothart. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Dances and Ensemble pictures arranged by Jack Haskell. Book directed by Frank Reicher. 44th Street Theatre: 30 Dec 1925- 10 Jul 1926 (219 performances). Cast: Vasily Andrewsky (as "Russian Art Singer"), Alice Ankers (as "American Ballet"), Miriam Avendale (as "American Ballet"), Chester Bennett (as "Gentleman of the Ensemble"), Ima Berline (as "American Ballet"), Hal Bird (as "Gentleman of the Ensemble"), Dorothy Booth (as "American Ballet "), Marion Booth (as "American Ballet"), Helen Bowers (as "American Ballet"), Phoebe Brune (as "Natasha"), Konstantin Buketoff (as "Russian Art Singer"), Hugh Cameron (as "Nicholas"), Adelaide Candee (as "American Ballet"), Terry Carroll (as "American Ballet"), Blanche Collins (as "Olga"), Ann Constance (as "American Ballet"), William Cooper (as "Gentleman of the Ensemble"), Betty Credito (as "American Ballet"), Louise Dalberg (as "An Avenger"), Greek Evans (as "Konstantin"), Lotta Fanning (as "American Ballet"), Paul Florence (as "Gentleman of the Ensemble"), Bernard Gorcey (as "Count Boris"), Mary Green (as "American Ballet"), Georgia Gwynne (as "American Ballet"), Buddie Haines (as "American Ballet"), Elvinne Hall (as "American Ballet"), James Herold (as "Gentleman of the Ensemble"), Louise Hersey (as "American Ballet"), Edith Higgens (as "American Ballet"), Elizabeth Hill (as "American Ballet"), Margie Horton (as "American Ballet"), Gene Hylan (as "American Ballet"), Zina Ivanova (as "Russian Art Singer"), Carolyn Johnson-White (as "American Ballet"), Tessa Kosta (as "Aniuta/The Flame"), Dorothy Lee (as "American Ballet"), Bob LeRoy (as "Gentleman of the Ensemble"), Harry Long (as "Gentleman of the Ensemble"), Lillyan Lyndon (as "American Ballet"), Dorothy MacKaye (as "Grusha"), Elsie Marcus (as "American Ballet"), Miss Milli (as "American Ballet"), Christine Moray (as "American Ballet"), Frances Nevins (as "American Ballet"), Lylian Ojala (as "American Ballet"), Lucille Osborn (as "American Ballet"), Sylvia Pagano (as "American Ballet"), Adelaide Permin (as "American Ballet"), Anna Petrenko (as "Russian Art Singer"), Laurie Phillips (as "American Ballet"), Ruby Poe (as "American Ballet"), Troupe Reynolds (as "Gentleman of the Ensemble"), Guy Robertson (as "Prince Volodya"), Elsa Roelofsma (as "American Ballet"), Ruth Sato (as "American Ballet"), Ula Sharon (as "Nadya"), Emily Sherman (as "American Ballet"), Jeannie St. John (as "American Ballet"), Leonard St. Leo (as "A Dancer"), Audrey Sturges (as "American Ballet"), Dorothy Thattell (as "American Ballet"), Frances Thress (as "American Ballet"), Philip Titman (as "Gentleman of the Ensemble"), Willard Tyson (as "Gentleman of the Ensemble"), Miss Verdi (as "American Ballet"), Donald Wells (as "Gentleman of the Ensemble"), Eileen Wenzel (as "American Ballet"), Paul Wilson (as "Alexis"). Produced by Arthur Hammerstein.
- (1926) Stage Play: Queen High. Musical comedy. Book by Laurence Schwab and Buddy G. DeSylva. "Queen High" is an adaptation of "A Pair of Sixes" by Edward Peple. Music by Lewis E. Gensler. Lyrics by B.G. DeSylva. Additional numbers by James F. Hanley. Music arranged by Robert Russell Bennett [credited as Russell Bennett]. Music orchestrated by Russell Bennett. Scenic Design by Willy Pogany. Directed by Edgar J. MacGregor [credited as Edgar McGregor]. Ambassador Theatre: 8 Sep 1926- 23 Jul 1927 (367 performances). Cast: Ward Arnold (as "Ensemble"), Charles Bannister (as "Ensemble"), Joey Benton (as "Ensemble"), Gaile Beverly (as "Coddles, the Nettletons' Maid"), Florence Blue (as "Ensemble"), Lillian Burke (as "Ensemble"), Barbara Carrington (as "Ensemble"), Helen Carrington (as "Mrs. Nellie Nettleton"), Al Downing (as "Ensemble"), Katherine Ellis (as "Ensemble"), Luella Gear (as "Florence Cole"), Barbara Grace (as "Kitty, a Model"), Albert Hale (as "Ensemble"), Peggy Hart (as "Ensemble"), Harold Hennessy (as "Ensemble"), Sophie Howard (as "Ensemble"), Jack Hughes (as "Ensemble"), Irene Isham (as "Ensemble"), Mary Lawlor (as "Polly Nettleton, Nettleton's Niece"), Ethel Lawrence (as "Ensemble"), Ann Lee (as "Ensemble"), Margaret Lee (as "Ensemble"), Elsie Lombard (as "Ensemble"), John McElroy (as "Ensemble"), Frank McIntyre (as "George Nettleton, the Senior Partner"), Edwin Michaels (as "Jimmy, the Office Assistant"), Lucille Moore (as "Ensemble"), Clarence Nordstrom (as "Richard Johns, Johns' Nephew"), Richard Oakley (as "Ensemble"), June O'Dea (as "Patricia, a Model") [Broadway debut], Charles Ruggles (as "T. Boggs Johns, the Junior Partner"), John Rutherford (as "Jerry Vanderholt, the Firm's Lawyer"), Otis Schaefer (as "Ensemble"), Daniel Sparks (as "Ensemble"), Mildred Stevens (as "Ensemble"), Carola Taylor (as "Ensemble"), Irene Warner (as "Ensemble"), Betty Wright (as "Ensemble"). Replacement actors: Neil Collins (as "Ensemble"), Frank Cullen (as "Ensemble"), Herbert Lund (as "Ensemble"), George Murray (as "Ensemble"), Betty Whitney (as "Ensemble"). Produced by Laurence Schwab. Note: Filmed by Paramount Pictures [at their Astoria, NY studio] as Queen High (1930) with Charlie Ruggles reprising his stage role as "T. Boggs Johns."
- (1926) Stage Play: Criss Cross. Musical comedy. Book and lyrics by Otto A. Harbach and Anne Caldwell. Music by Jerome Kern. Musical Director: Victor Baravalle. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett and Maurice De Packh. Choreographed by Dave Bennett. Sunshine Girls' dances devised by Mary Read. Scenic Design by James Reynolds. Costume Design by James Reynolds. Directed by R.H. Burnside. Globe Theatre: 12 Oct 1926- 9 Apr 1927 (210 performances). Cast: M. Ambark, Auguste Aramini, Phyllis Barnacle, Dorothy Bate, Charles Baum, Thomas Bell, Bobby Breslau, Phyllis Brown, Violet Bryant, Kathryn Burnside, Elsie Burton, Noreen Callow, Doris Carter, Primrose Caryll, Elizabeth Childs, Alice Donahue, Pearl Eaton (as "Chinaman/Arlette/Gainsborough Lady"), Josie Elton, Goldie Flynn, Cynthia Foley, Dorothy Francis, Virginia Franck, Danzie Goodell, Violet Hale, A. Hamid, Walter Harris, Kathryn Hereford, George Herman, Margaret Himes, Alma Hookey, Roy Hoyer, Ruth Hurst, Sallie Hurst, Genevieve Kent, William Kerschell, Margaret Kollock, Frank Lambert, John Lambert, Jane Lane, Marjorie Leet, Edward Mack, Jessie Madison, Muriel Marlowe, Emily Martin, Beth Meakins, A. Mohamed, H. Mohamed, Lucie Monroe, Dolly Mosley, P. Motcelt, Vera O'Brien, Phyllis Pearce, Gladys Pender, Oscar Ragland (as "Abanazar/Ilphrahim Benani"), Ethel Ramsden, Florence Rice, A. Riffle, Betty Roche, Helen Roche, Dorothy Sabin, Joseph Schrode (as "Susie/Coachman"), Lydia Scott, Rhoda Sewell, Jack Shannon, Doris Smith, Florence Stack, Jane Stafford, Allene Stone, Dorothy Stone, Fred Stone, Marietta Sullivan, Mabel Sunderland, Ralph Thomson, Peggy Timmons, Willie Torpey, Gwen Tremble, Mark Truscott, Lillian White, Star Woodman, Alice Wright, Doris Yates. Produced by Charles B. Dillingham.
- (1927) Stage Play: Lucky. Musical comedy. Based on material by Otto A. Harbach. Additional scenes by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. Music by Jerome Kern. Additional numbers by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. Musical Direction by Gus Salzer. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Lyrics by Otto A. Harbach. Additional music by Fred Fisher, Nora Bayes, Jack Norworth, Gus Edwards and George Gershwin. Additional lyrics by Fred Fisher, Jack Norworth, Edward Madden and Anne Caldwell. Directed by Hassard Short. New Amsterdam Theatre: 22 Mar 1927- 21 May 1927 (71 performances). Starring Walter Catlett (as "Charlie Simpson"). Cast: Bessie Allison, Alfred Arnold, Walter Arnold, Charles Bannister, Julia Brashkova, Dorothy Bell, Dick Bennett, Dulce Bentley, Martin Berkeley, Albert Birk, Leonore Blair, Betty Block, Pearl Bradley, Mary Brady, Billie Cain, Virginia Clark, Joan Clement, Hal Clovis, Charles Conkling, Emily Cote, Peggy Cunningham, Hyacinth Curtis, Jack de Lys, Maxine Demmler, Marian Dickson, Alma Drange, Charles Eaton, Mary Eaton, Eleanor Elden, Paul Everton, Rosemary Farmer, Richard Farrell, George Ferguson, Jeanne Fonda, Ethel Forrest, Rose Gaillaird, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher (as "Teddy Travers"), Charles Gibney, Elvira Gomez, Bert Gould, Alfred Hall, Pauline Hall, Aili Halmenaa, Milton Halpern, Kathryn Hamill, Vivian Harris, Jack Hughes, Max Hugo, Ray Justus, Ruby Keeler (as "Mazie Maxwell"), Betty Keen, The Keller Sisters, Lily Kimari, Kathleen Krosby, Kathryn Lambly, Myrtle Lane, Donald Lee, Fred Lennox, Edna Locke, Al Lynch, Trude Marr, Olga Marye, Bob Maxwell, Stanley McClelland, Charles Mitchell, Lillian Morehouse, Bob Morris, Josephine Mostler, Henry Mowbray, Hugh Francis Murphy, Al Ochs (as "Long Ling"), Bill O'Donnell, Don Oltarsh, Cheri Pelham, Dorothy Phillips, Nickie Pittell, Patricia Preston, Anna Rex, Phyllis Reynolds, Nita Rosso, Elizabeth Ryder, Joseph Santley, Ivy Sawyer, Lenore Shearer, Kumara Singha, Emily Slater, Hugh Sorenson, Louise Starck, Jack Talbot, Ayres Tavitt, Archibald Thompson, Peaches Tortoni, Regina Tuahinska, George Vigouroux, Eda Vittollo, Teddy Ward, Elida Webb, Princess White Deer, Martha Wilbert, Fred Wilson, Albert Wyart, Dorothy Wyatt. Produced by Charles B. Dillingham.
- (1930) Stage Play: Girl Crazy. Musical comedy. Music by George Gershwin. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Book by Guy Bolton and John McGowan. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Musical Director: Earl Busby. Choreographed by George Hale. Costume Design by Kiviette. Scenic Design by Donald Oenslager. Conducted by George Gershwin. Directed by Alexander Leftwich. Alvin Theatre: 14 Oct 1930- 6 Jun 1931 (272 performances). Cast: Jack Barrett, Gloria Beaumont, Gene Brady, Olive Brady (as "Tess Parker"), Bob Burton, Norma Butler, Lillian Carson, Kathryn Cathcart, Chief Rivers, Jack Classon, Jack Closson, Arthur Craig, Norman Curtis, Bob Derden, Dorothy Donnelly (as "Ensemble"), Kay Downer, LaVern Evans, Jack Fago, Jacqueline Feeley, Mickie Forbs, Donald Foster, Bob Gebhardt, Dorothy Gordon, Faye Greene, Harry Griffin, Marion Harcke, Thomasine Haye, Eunice Healy, Willie Howard, Ray Johnson, Starr West Jones (as "Lariat Joe"/Ensemble), Virginia Kay, Allen Kearns, Vivian Keefer, William Kent, Muriel LaCount, Rena Landeau, Jane Lane, Leila Laney, Lillian Lorray, Gertrude Lowe, Carlton Macy (as "Lank Sanders"), Mary Mascher, Ethel Merman (as "Kate Fothergill"), Betty Morton, Elsie Neal, Dick Nealy, Hazzard Newberry, Kendall Northrop, James Notono, Peggy O'Connor, Margie O'Shea, Lillian Ostrom, Lew Parker, Julia Pirie, Del Porter, Vivian Porter, Marvyne Ray, Ginger Rogers (as "Molly Gray"), Kathy Schauer, John Sciortino, Marshall Smith, Dwight Snyder, Drucilla Strain, Ruth Timmons, Clyde Veaux, Nondas Wayne. Produced by Alex Aarons and Vinton Freedley.
- (1929) Stage Play: Sweet Adeline. Musical comedy. Music by Jerome Kern. Book by Oscar Hammerstein II. Musical Director: Gustave Salzer. Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Featuring songs with lyrics by Irene Franklin. Featuring songs by Jerry Jarnagin. Costume Design by Charles Le Maire. Scenic Design by Gates & Morange. Hammerstein's Theatre: 3 Sep 1929- 22 Mar 1930 (234 performances). Cast: Caryl Bergman, Charles Butterworth (as "Ruppert Day"), Violet Carlson, Thomas Chadwick, Robert Chisholm, Robert Fischer, Irene Franklin, Gus, Max Hoffmann, Jr. (as "Tom Martin, first mate, S.S. St. Paul"), Robert Emmett Keane, Len Mence, Helen Morgan (as "Addie, Emil's older daughter"), John Seymour, Will, Irving Arnold, Helen Ault, Sally Bates, Peter Bender, Louise Bernhardt, Harriet Britton, Dorothy Brown, Lillian Burke, John Campbell, Mary Carney, Kaye Carroll, Don Carter, Louise Chowning, Gertrude Clave, Nore Cliff, Aida Conkey, Don Cortez, Myrtle Cox, Wally Crisham, Betty Croke, Nonie Dale, Joseph Davidenko, Fanille Davies, George Djimos, Frank Dobert, Lynn Eldridge, Harry Esmond, La Vergne Evans, Jackson Fairchild, Polly Fisher, Frances Flanigan, Christine Gallagher, Helene Gardner, Mildred Gethins, Pauline Gorin, Jack Gray, Evelyn Hannons, Muriel Harrison, Dorothy Hiller, Jerry Jarnagin, Helen Kelly, Grace La Rue, Evelyn Laurie, Gloria Le Bow, Louis Leo, Borrah Levinson, Andy Lieb, Madge MacAnally, George Magis, Marion Martin, Helen McDonald, Peggy Messinger, Paul Moran, Billy Murray, Laura Mutch, Gladys Nelson, Ruby Nevins, Ruth Penery, George Raymond, Joe Reilly, Josephine Rice, Tom Rider, Robertina Robertson, Gustave Salzer (as "Gus, 1st violin"), Len Saxon, Madgio Schmylee, Martin Sheppard, William Sheppard, Bob Shutta, Alexis Sokoloff, Baum Sturz, Bertha Mae Swan, Morris Tepper, Mabel Thilbault, Tom Thompson, Jim Thornton, Elenore Tierney, Cyrilla Tuite, Emily Van Hoven, Genevieve Van Hoven, Robert Vernon, Efim Vitis, Lorena Walcott, Ben Wells, Marion Young. Produced by Arthur Hammerstein.
- (1944) Stage Play: Seven Lively Arts. Musical revue. Music by Cole Porter. Lyrics by Cole Porter. Miss Lillie's sketches by Moss Hart. Book by George S. Kaufman and Ben Hecht. Ballet music by Igor Stravinsky. Music arranged by Robert Russell Bennett, Ted Royal and [error]. Scenic Design by Norman Bel Geddes [final Broadway credit]. Costume Design by Mary Grant. Modern gowns by Valentina. Lighting Design by Hassard Short. Associate Prod. Design: Albert A. Ostrander. Assistant to Hassard Short: William Strahlman. Sketches directed by Philip Loeb. Choreographed by Anton Dolin. Musical Staging by Jack Donohue Directed by Hassard Short. Ziegfeld Theatre: 7 Dec 1944- 12 May 1945 (183 performances). Cast: Anton Dolin (as "Pas de Deux" Dancer/Scene de Ballet" Dancer/"Mr. Manningham"), Benny Goodman (as "Billy Rose Buys the Metropolitan Opera House!" Performer), Bert Lahr (as "The Stagehand"/"Local Boy Makes Good"/"Fragonard in Pink"/"Only Another Boy and Girl"/"Drink" Singer/"The Patient"/"The Great Man Speaks"/"Mr. Clarence Day"/"Heaven on Angel Street"), Beatrice Lillie (as "Lady Agatha Pendleton"/"There'll Always Be An England"/"Fragonard in Pink, Only Another Boy and Girl"/The Customer, Ticket for the Ballet"/"When I Was a Little Cuckoo" Singer/"Dancin' to a Jungle Drum" Singer/Mrs. Manningham, Heaven on Angel Street"), Alicia Markova (as "Pas de Deux" Dancer/"Scene de Ballet" Dancer), Robert Austin, Franca Baldwin, Paula Bane, Truly Barbara, Virginia Barnes, Michael Barrett, Johnsie Bason, John Beggs, Susan Blanchard, Phyllis Brown, Charlotte Bruce, Angelina Buttignol, Albert Carroll, Irene Carroll, Sonny Cavell, Jean Colleran, Evangeline Collis, Margaretta De Valera, Nina Dean, Bettye Durrence, Paddy Ellerton, Rose Marie Elliott, Paul Fairleigh, Adriana Favaloro, Morey Feld, Louise Ferrand, Jerry Florio, Helen Gallagher, Arlene Garver, Mimi Gomber, Dolores Gray (as "Wow-ohh-wolf!" Singer/"Hence It Don't Make Sense" Singer/"Movie Actress"/'Big Town"/"Is It The Girl?" Singer), Alan Grossman, Edward Hackett, Jean Harris, Vincent Henry, Robert Herring, Alma Holt, Raynor Howell, Stella Hughes, Ray Johnson, Jim Kane, Harriet Katzman, Thomas Kenny, Robert Kimberly, Savona King, Mary Ann Krejci, Barry Laffin, Lee Lauterbur, Constance Love, Ethel Madson, Richard Martin, John Mathews, Viki Maulsby, Jere McMahon, Gayle Mellott, Buddy Millard, Dickie Millard, Marty Miller, Helen Molveau, Dennie Moore (as "Lady Carleton/There'll Always Be An England/Mrs. Day/Heaven on Angel Street"), Louise Newton, Red Norvo (as "Billy Rose Buys the Metropolitan Opera House!" Performer), Paul Olson, Richmond Page, Michael Pober, Mary Roche, Bettina Rosay, King Ross, Lester Russon, Allen Sharp, Gwen Shirey, Cissy Smith, Adrian Storms, Bill Tabbert, Gordon Taylor, Temple Texas, William Utely, Martha Emma Watson, Sid Weiss, Teddy Wilson, Billie Worth, Nan Wynn [Broadway debut]. Produced by Billy Rose.
- (1939) Stage Play: Du Barry Was a Lady. Musical comedy. Music by Cole Porter. Lyrics by Cole Porter. Book by Herbert Fields and Buddy G. DeSylva. Orchestra Arrangements by Hans Spialek. Additional Arrangements by Robert Russell Bennett and Ted Royal. Choral Arrangements by Hugh Martin. Assistant to Hugh Martin: Ralph Blanc. Scenic Design by Raoul Pène Du Bois. Costume Design by Raoul Pène Du Bois. Lighting Design by Albert A. Ostrander. Assistant to Robert Alton: Charles Millang. Choreographed by Robert Alton. Directed by Edgar J. MacGregor. 46th Street Theatre (moved to The Royale Theatre from 21 Oct 1940- close): 6 Dec 1939- 12 Dec 1940 (408 performances). Cast: Bert Lahr (as "Louis Blore, His Most Royal Majesty, The King of France"), Ethel Merman (as "May Daly/Mme. La Comtesse du Barry"), Benny Baker (as "Charley, His Royal Highness, The Dauphin of France"), Betty Grable (as "Alice Barton, Mme. La Marquisse Alisande de Vernay"), Betty Allen, Gloria Arden, Walter Armin (as "Bill Kelly/Docteur Michel"), Gene Ashley, Johnny Barnes, Helen Bennett, Marguerite Benton, Ruth Bond, Evelyn Bonefine, Boris Butleroff, Hugh Cameron, Janice Carter, Virginia Cheneval, Stella Clauson, Harold Cromer, Mary Daniels, Jacqueline Franc, Joel Friend, Ronda Gale, Russell Georgiev, Tilda Getze, Anne Graham, Ronald Graham, Stanley Grill, Marion Harvey, Douglas Hawkins, Peter Holliday, Beverly Hosier, Dorothea Jackson, Adele Jergens (as "Dancing Girl"), Mel Kacher, Patricia Knight, Nancy Knott, Frances Krell, Don Liberto, Gloria Martin, Jean Moorehead, Carl Nicholas, Audrey Palmer, Barbara Pond, Tito Renaldo, Roy Ross, David Shelly, Geraldine Spreckels, Jane Sproule, Jane Sprowl, Jack Stanton, Kay Sutton, Paul Thorne, Edith Turgell, Lewis Turner, Marie Vannemen, Arlyne Varden, William Vaux, Charles Walters (as "Harry Norton, Captain of King's Guard"), Nina Wayler. Produced by Buddy G. DeSylva.
- (1933) Stage Play: Hold Your Horses. Musical comedy. Music by Robert Russell Bennett, Robert A. Simon, Louis Alter, Arthur Swanstrom, Ben Oakland and Owen Murphy. Book by Russel Crouse and Corey Ford. Based on a play by Charles Beahan, Russel Crouse and Corey Ford. With many nonsensical moments by Joe Cook. Lyrics by Robert Russell Bennett, Robert A. Simon, Louis Alter, Arthur Swanstrom, Ben Oakland and Owen Murphy. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Musical Director: Gene Salzer. Featuring songs by Margot Millham and Leslie Stuart. Featuring songs with lyrics by Margot Millham, Owen Hall and J.P. Murray. Directed by John Shubert. All dances, ensembles and principals' dances by Robert Alton. Ballets created and staged by Harriet Hoctor. Stage Manager: Frederick De Cordova. Book directed by R.H. Burnside. Winter Garden Theatre: 25 Sep 1933- 9 Dec 1933 (88 performances). Cast: Jack Anthony, Walter Armin (as "Charles Rector"), James Babbitt, Julia Barker, Alayne Blair, W.K. Brady, Jack Burleigh, Lehman Byck, Jack Byrne, Phyllis Carroll, Emeeta Casanova, Andre Charise, Dave Chasen (as "Frothington"), Cecile Clancy, Jay Conley, Mary Connor,Joe Cook (as "Broadway Joe"), Colleen Cooper, Barbara Coswell, Inez Courtney (as "Gwen Fordyce"), Carmen Cuyler, Hene Damur, Helen Day, Dorothy Drum, Helene Ecklund, Marion Farrish, Margie Finley, Helen Folsom, Frances Ford, Jimmie Fox, Peggy Gallimore, Douglas Gilmore, John Glenn, Ruth Gormley, Edwin Guhl, Clarence Harvey, Maurine Holmes, Jack Howard, Meredith Howard, Virginia Howard, Jeryl Joyce, Adelaide Kaye, Josephine Kaye, Marguerite Kennedy, Connie Madison, Jane Manners, Lila Manor, Lola Manor, Gene Martel, Rosalie McCallion, Joe McKeon, Edward J. McNamara, Tully Millet, Jack Morrissey, R.J. Mulligan, Ona Munson (as "Marjory Ellis"), Donnell O'Brian, Emmett O'Brien, Eileen O'Connor, Ethel O'Dell, Olaf Olsen (as "Kid Hogan's Second"), Evelyn Page, Walter Palm (as "Bartender at Nigger Mike's"), Pat Palmer, Tom Patricola, Tesha Pierson, Ernest Recco, Harry Rogers, Polly Rose, Jean Ryan, Lovee Sabalis, George Schiller, Myra Scott, Charles Senna, C. Ellsworth Smith, Stanley Smith, Edna Strong, Frances Stutz, Tanya Tschergi, Frances Upton (as "Dolly Montague"), Dick Wallace, Rex Weber, Eugene Winchester, Jack Wolf, Sunny Wright, Dan Wyler. Produced by Producing Associates, Inc., Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert and Joe Cook. Produced under the supervision of John Shubert.
- (1936) Stage Play: The Show is On. Musical revue. Sketches by David Freedman; "Mr. Gielgud Passes By" by Moss Hart. Music mostly by Vernon Duke. Lyrics mostly by Ted Fetter. Additional music by Hoagy Carmichael, Arthur Schwartz, George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Herman Hupfeld, Will Irwin and Richard Rodgers. Additional lyrics by Stanley Adams, Howard Dietz, Ira Gershwin, E.Y. Harburg, Herman Hupfeld, Norman Zeno and Lorenz Hart. Music orchestrated by Gordon Jenkins. Additional orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett and [error]. Production Design by Vincente Minnelli. Conceived by Vincente Minnelli. Sketches directed by Edward C. Lilley. Choreographed by Robert Alton. "Casanova" choreographed by Harry Losee. Directed by Vincente Minnelli. Winter Garden Theatre: 25 Dec 1936- 17 Jul 1937 (236 performances). Cast: Marion Allen, Vera Allen (as "Desdemona"), Gene Ashley, Gracie Barrie, Hazel Boffinger, Kenneth Bostock, Roy Campbell's Continentals, Mary Ann Carr, Marie Carroll, Andre Charise, Dorothy Daly, Doris Donaldson, Helen Ecklund, Hugh Ellsworth, Peggy Gallimore, Reginald Gardiner (as "Shakespeare"), Paul Haakon, Pearl Harris, Irene Kelly, Jerrie Koban, Bert Lahr (as "Ronald Taylor"), Jane Lane, Beatrice Lillie (as "Go Go Benuti"), Mitzi Mayfair, June McNulty, Gertrude Medwin, Jean Moorehead, Marion Murray, Gifford Nash, Fred Nay, Mortimer O'Brien, Paul Owen, Mary Phillips, Mischa Pompianov, Ralph Riggs, Harry Rogue, Polly Rose, Richard Satterfield, Robert Shafer, Sherry Stuart, Evelyn Thawl, Willem Van Loon, Charles Waters, Mildred Webb, Duke Williams. Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.
- (1937) Stage Play: The Show is On. Musical revue (return engagement). Sketches by David Freedman. "Mr. Gielgud Passes By" by Moss Hart. Music mostly by Vernon Duke. Lyrics mostly by Ted Fetter. Additional music by Hoagy Carmichael, Arthur Schwartz, George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Herman Hupfeld, Will Irwin and Richard Rodgers.
- (1958) Stage Play: Flower Drum Song. Musical comedy. Book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joseph Fields. Based on the novel by C.Y. Lee. Music by Richard Rodgers. Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Musical Director: Salvatore Dell'Isola. Dance arrangements by Luther Henderson Jr. Costume Design by Irene Sharaff. Lighting Design by Peggy Clark. Hair Design by Ronald De Mann. Choreographed by Carol Haney. Directed by Gene Kelly. St. James Theatre: 1 Dec 1958- 7 May 1960 (600 performances). Cast: Larry Blyden (as "Sammy Fong"), Pat Suzuki, Miyoshi Umeki (as "Mei-Li"), Juanita Hall, Arabella Hong [Broadway debut], Ed Kenney, Keye Luke (as "Wang Chi Yang"), Patrick Adiarte, Jose Ahumada, Fumi Akimoto, Peter Chan (as "Professor Cheng"), Paula Chin, Victor Duntiere, Anita Ellis, Helen Funai, Pat Griffith, Luis Robert Hernandez, Mary Huie, Marion Jim, Betty Kawamura, Susan Lynn Kikuchi, Baayork Lee, Jon Lee, Chao Li, George Li, David Lober, Robert Lorca, Harry Shaw Lowe, Wonci Lui, George Minami, Jo Anne Miya, Eileen NaKamura, Denise Quan, Rose Quong [Broadway debut], Vicki Racimo, Linda Ribuca, Yvonne Ribuca, Shawnee Smith, Jack Soo (as "Frankie Wing") [Broadway debut], Maureen Tiongco, David Toguri, Mabel Wing, Conrad Yama, George Young, Yuriko. Produced by Rodgers & Hammerstein. Produced in association with Joseph Fields. Note: Nominated for 1959 Tony Award (with Hammerstein) for Best Book (Musical) and Best Musical.
- (1959) Stage Play: Redhead. Musical comedy. Book by Herbert Fields, Dorothy Fields, Sidney Sheldon and David Shaw. Music by Albert Hague. Lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Music orchestrated by Philip J. Lang and Robert Russell Bennett. Musical Director: Jay Blackton. Vocal arrangements by Jay Blackton. Dance arrangements by Roger Adams. Directed and Choreographed by Bob Fosse. 46th Street Theatre: 5 Feb 1959- 19 Mar 1960 (452 performances). Cast: Gwen Verdon (as "Essie Whimple"), Richard Kiley (as "Tom Baxter"), John Aristedes (as "Dancer"), Margery Beddow (as "Dancer"), Kevin Carlisle (as "Dancer"), Shirley de Burgh (as "Dancer"), Mame Dennis (as "Singer"), Bob Dixon (as "The Tenor/Singer"), Joan Fagan (as "Singer"), Clifford Fearl (as "Singer"), Pat Ferrier (as "Ruth LaRue/Tilly/Dancer"), Lydia Fredericks (as "Singer"), David Gold (as "Dancer"), Bette Graham, Dee Harless (as "Singer"), Harvey Hohnecker (as "Dancer"), Patrick Horgan (as "Sir Charles Willingham") [Broadway debut], Reby Howells (as "Dancer"), Janie Janvier (as "Singer"), Patti Karr (as "Dancer"), Elizabeth Kerr (as "Street Performer"), Elaine King (as "Dancer"), Kasimir Kokich (as "Dancer"), Lee Krieger (as "Alfy, Stage Doorman"), John Lankston (as "Singer"), Cynthia Latham (as "Maude Simpson"), William LeMassena (as "Howard Cavanaugh"), Buzz Miller (as "Jailer"), Larry Mitchell (as "Singer"), Dale Moreda (as "Dancer"), Joy Nichols (as "May"), Stan Page (as "Singer"), Noel Parenti (as "Dancer"), Liane Plane (as "Dancer"), Doris Rich (as "Sarah Simpson"), Shev Rodgers (as "Singer"), Alton Ruff (as "Dancer"), Kelley Stephens (as "Singer"), Leonard Stone (as "George Poppett"), Ralph Sumpter (as "Inspector White"), Dean Taliaferro (as "Dancer"). Understudies: Kevin Carlisle (as "Jailer"), Bob Dixon (as "Alfy"), Joan Fagan (as "Inez"), David Gold (as "Sir Charles Willingham"), Dee Harless (as "May"), Patti Karr (as "Essie Whimple"), Elizabeth Kerr (as "Maude Simpson/Sarah Simpson"), Lee Krieger (as "George Poppett"), Jerry LaZarre (as "Tom Baxter"), John Lankston (as "Howard Cavanaugh"), Allyn Ann McLerie (as "Essie Whimple"), Liane Plane (as "Tilly") and Shev Rodgers (as "Inspector White"). Replacement Actors: Burt Bier (as "Singer"), Mary Burr (as "Dancer"), Dorothy Dushock (as "Dancer"), William Guske (as "Dancer"), Curtis Hood (as "Dancer"), Michael McAloney (as "Sir Charles Willingham"), Pat McEnnis (as "Singer"), Donna Monroe (as "Singer"), Connie Sharman (as "Singer"), Matthew Tobin [Broadway debut], David Williams (as "Singer/The Tenor"), Iva Withers (as "May"). Understudies: Margery Beddow (as "Ruth LaRue/Tilly"), Clifford Fearl (as "Alfy"), William Guske (as "Jailer"), Elaine King (as "Inez"), Liane Plane second understudy (as "Essie Whimple"), Patty Wilkes (as "May"). Produced by Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr. Associate Producer: Theatrical Interests Plan Inc.
- (1955) Stage Play: South Pacific. Musical/drama (revival). Adapted from "Tales of South Pacific" by: James A. Michener. Music by Richard Rodgers. Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan. Musical Director: Frederick Dvonch. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Costume Design by Motley. Scenic Design by Jo Mielziner. Staged by Charles Atkin. City Center: 4 May 1955- 15 May 1955 (15 performances). Cast: Richard Armbruster (as "Seaman Tom O'Brien"), Helen Baisley, Herb Banke, Emy Boselli, Warren J. Brown, Richard Collett, Sandra Deel, Clifford Fearl, Don Fellows, Nick Gentile, Richard Hildebrandt, Edith Lane, Carol Lawrence (as "Liat"), Howard Lear, Theresa Mari, Frank Maxwell, Eileen Moran, Antonio Obregon, Balentin Obregon, Louise Pearl, Michelle Reiner, Seth Riggs (as "Yeoman Herbert Quale"), J.J. Riley, Bob Rippy, Gene Saks (as "Professor"), Janice Samarie, Richard Silvera, Henry Slate, Margaret Sokal, Elaine Spaulding, Sylvia Syms (as "Bloody Mary"), Evans Thornton, Murray Vines, Ralph Vucci, Raymond Wearer, Julie Winston, Martin Wolfson (as "Captain George Brackett, U.S.N."). Produced by New York City Center Light Opera Company (William Hammerstein: General Director).
- (1952) Stage Play: Three Wishes for Jamie. Musical comedy. Music by Ralph Blane. Lyrics by Ralph Blane. Book by Charles O'Neal and Abe Burrows. Based on the novel by Charles O'Neal. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Choral arrangements by William Ellfeldt. Choreographed by Ted Cappy, Herbert Ross and Eugene Loring. Scenic Design by George Jenkins. Costume Design by Miles White. Directed by Abe Burrows. Mark Hellinger Theatre (moved to The Plymouth Theatre from 27 May 1952- close): 21 Mar 1952- 7 Jun 1952 (92 performances). Cast: Leigh Allen, Doris Atkinson, Estelle Aza, Marian Baird, Robert Baird, Buddy Bryan, Michele Burke (as "Nora/Singer"), Walter Burke (as "Power O'Malley"), James Capp, Jerry Cardoni, Alfred Catal, Billy Chapin (as "Kevin"), Wilton Clary (as "McCaffrey/Big Patrick"), Peter Conlow (as "Dennis O'Ryan"), Royal Dano (as "Jess Proddy"), Ann Deasy, Donn Driver, Clifford Fearl, Pud Flanagan, Dick Foote (as "Sheriff Haines"), George Foster, Marie Gibson, 'Robert Halliday' (as "Tim Shanahan"), Mary Haywood, Anne Jeffreys (as "Maeve Harrigan"), Malcolm Keen, Joan Kibrig, Robert Lamont, Elizabeth Logue, Mildred Ann Mauldin, Ralph Morgan, Jeff Morrow (as "Randal Devlin"), Jerry Newby, Greg O'Brien, Grania O'Malley, Nancy Price, Charlotte Rae (as "Tirsa Shanahan") [Broadway debut], John Raitt, June Reimer, Ann Richards, Janet Sayers, Jackie Scholle, Richard Scott, Robert St. Clair, Joe Stember, Donald Thrall, Tafi Towers, Richard Vine, Martin Walker, Bert Wheeler (as "Owen Roe Tavish"), Sandra Zell. Produced by Albert Lewis and Arthur Lewis.
- (1960) Stage Play: Camelot. Musical. Book by Alan Jay Lerner. Based on "The Once and Future King" by T.H. White. Music by Frederick Loewe. Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. Musical Director: Franz Allers. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett and Philip J. Lang. Dance and choral arrangements by Trude Rittman. Scenic Design by Oliver Smith. Costume Design by Adrian [worked on the designs for 3 months before he died in September 1959] and Tony Duquette. Lighting Design by Feder. Hair Design by Ernest Adler. Sound Design by Jack Mitnick. Assistant to Mr. Smith: Bill Pitkin and Jack Brown. Assistant to Mr. Duquette: Stanley Simmons. Choreographed by Hanya Holm. Directed by Moss Hart [final Broadway credit; died during production run]. Majestic Theatre: 3 Dec 1960- 5 Jan 1963 (873 performances + 2 previews that began on 1 Dec 1960). Cast: Julie Andrews (as "Guenevere"), Richard Burton (as "Arthur"), Robert Coote (as "King Pellinore"), John Cullum (as "Sir Dinadan") [Broadway debut], Virginia Allen (as "Lady Catherin"), M'el Dowd (as "Morgan Le Fey"), Robert Goulet (as "Lancelot Du Lac"), Roddy McDowall (as "Mordred"), Virginia Allen (as "Lady Catherine/Dancer"), Judi Allinson (as "Dancer"), Laurie Archer (as "Dancer"), Joan August (as "Singer"), Mary Sue Berry (as "Singer"), Frank Bouley (as "Singer"), Jerry Bowers (as "Dancer"), Marnell Bruce (as "Singer"), Carlene Carroll (as "Dancer"), Michael Clarke-Laurence (as "Dap"), Joan Coddington (as "Dancer"), Jack Dabdoub (as "Sir Gwilliam/Singer"), Peter De Visé (as "A Page"), Peter Deign (as "Dancer"), Randy Doney (as "Dancer"), Richard Englund (as "Dancer"), James Fox (as "Singer"), Richard Gain (as "Dancer"), James Gannon (as "Sir Sagramore/Singer"), Gene GeBauer (as "Dancer"), Katia Geleznova (as "Dancer"), Christina Gillespie (as "Lady Anne"), Murray Goldkind (as "Singer"), Judy Hastings (as "Singer"), Warren Hays (as "Singer"), Paul Huddleston (as "Singer"), David Hurst (as "Merlyn"), Benita James (as "Singer"), Adriana Keathley (as "Dancer"), Michael Kermoyan (as "Sir Ozanna/Singer"), James Kirby (as "Dancer"), Richard Kuch (as "Clarius/Dancer"), Donald Maloof (as "Singer"), Leland Mayforth (as "A Page"), Dawn Mitchell (as "Dancer"), Larry Mitchell (as "Singer"), Joe Nelson (as "Dancer"), Paul Richards (as "Singer"), Claudia Schroeder (as "Dancer"), Beti Seay (as "Dancer"), Marjorie Smith (as "Nimue/Singer"), John Starkweather (as "Herald/Dancer"), Robin Stewart (as "Tom of Warwick"), Shelia Swenson (as "Singer"), John Taliaferro (as "Singer"), Jimmy Tarbutton (as "Dancer"), Leesa Troy (as "A Lady/Singer"), Dorothy White (as "Singer"), Bruce Yarnell (as "Sir Lionel"). Standby: Inga Swenson (as "Guenevere"). Understudies: Mary Sue Berry (Nimue), Frank Bouley (Dap), Michael Clarke-Laurence (as "King Pellinore/Merlyn"), John Cullum (as "Arthur/Mordred), Peter De Visé (as "Tom of Warwick"), James Gannon (as "Lancelot Du Lac"), Donald Maloof (as "Sir Lionel"), Larry Mitchell (as "Sir Dinadan"), Paul Richards (as "Mordred"), Leesa Troy (as Guenevere/Morgan Le Fey"). Replacement actors during long production run: Christian Alderson (as "Dancer"), Mary Sue Berry (as "Nimue"), Frank Bouley (as "Sir Castor of Cornwall"), Jerry Bowers (as "Herald/Horse"), Patricia Bredin (as "Guenevere") [from 16 Apr 1962- ?], Christopher Cary (as "Mordred"), John Cullum (as "Mordred"), Steve Curry (as "Tom of Warwick"), Jack Dabdoub (as "Sir Lionel"), Kathie Dalton (as "Dancer"), Peter Deign (as "Sir Sagramore"), Jack Eddleman (as "Singer"), Janet Frank (as "Singer"), Gene GeBauer (as "Clarius"), Kathryn Grayson (as "Guenevere") [from 22 Oct 1962- ?], Daniel P. Hannafin (as "Singer"), Judith Hastings (as "Lady Anne"), Janet Hays (as "Singer"), Tom Head (as "Singer"), Loren Hightower (as "Dancer"), Paul Huddleston (as "Scottish Knight"), Jack Irwin (as "Singer"), Jeremy Ives (as "Dancer"). Howard Kahl (as "Singer"), Adriana Keathley (as Lady Anne"), Edward Kerrigan (as "Dancer"), Glenn Kezer (as "Singer"), Elizabeth Lamkin (as "Singer"), Phyllis Lear (as "Dancer"), Tommy Long (as "A Page"), Richard Lyle (as "Dancer"), Robert Mackie (as "Singer"), Donald Maloof (as "Sir Colgrevance"), Janet McCall (as "Singer"), Jack McMinn (as "Singer"), Richard Mills (as "A Page"), Robert Neukum (as "Singer/Sir Sagramore"), Paul Olson (as "Dancer"), Janet Pavek (as "Guenevere") [from 9 Jul 1962- ?], Robert Peterson (as "Singer/Sir Dinadan/Sir Gwilliam/Sir Ozanna/Lancelot Du Lac") [from 8 Oct 1962- ?], Frank Piper (as "Dancer"), Lowell Purvis (as "Dancer"), Philip Rash (as "Singer"), George Ritner (as "Singer"), Tani Seitz (as "Morgan Le Fey"), William Squire (as "Arthur") [from 25 Sep 1961 - ?], Robert St. Clair (as "Dancer"), John Starkweather (as "Sir Gwilliam"), Don Stewart (as "Singer/Sir Colgrevance/Sir Dinadan"), Don Strong (as "Clarius/Dancer/Horse"), Evelyn Taylor (as "Dancer"), Royston Thomas (as "Tom of Warwick"), Arthur Treacher (as "King Pellinore") [from 8 Oct 1962 - ?/final Broadway role], Leesa Troy (as "Lady Sybil"), Louis Turenne (as "Merlyn"), Joan Volkman (as "Dancer"), Byron Webster (as "Dap/King Pellinore"), Toodie Wittmer (as "Dancer"), Chester Wolenski (as "Dancer"). Standbys: Jan Moody (as "Guenevere"), Janet Pavek (as "Guenevere"). Understudies: Jack Dabdoub (as "Merlyn"), Jack Eddleman (as "Mordred"), Judith Hastings (as "Nimue"), Howard Kahl (as "Herald"), Glenn Kezer (as "Sir Lionel"), Tommy Long (as "Tom of Warwick"), Richard Mills (as "Tom of Warwick"), Robert Peterson (as "Lancelot Du Lac/Sir Lionel"), George Ritner (as "Dap/Herald/Sir Dinadan"), John Starkweather (as "Sir Dinadan"), Don Stewart (as "Lancelot Du Lac/Sir Lionel"), Louis Turenne (as "Arthur"), Byron Webster (as "King Pellinore"). Produced by Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe and Moss Hart. Note: Filmed as Camelot (1967).
- (1943) Stage Play: Something for the Boys. Musical comedy. Music by Cole Porter. Book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields. Lyrics by Cole Porter. Choral arrangements by William Parson. Music orchestrated by Hans Spialek, Robert Russell Bennett, Don Walker and Ted Royal. Scenic Design by Howard Bay. Costume Design by Billy Livingston. Assistant to Mr. Bay: Albert A. Ostrander. Assistant to Mr. Livingston: Grace Houston. Lighting Design by Hassard Short. Choreographed by Jack Cole. Book directed by Herbert Fields. Additional Numbers Staged by Lew Kessler. Directed by Hassard Short. Alvin Theatre: 7 Jan 1943- 8 Jan 1944 (422 performances). Cast: Ethel Merman (as "Blossom Hart"), Jimmy Allison (as "Singer"), Anita Alvarez (as "Micheala"), Alice Anthony (as "Dancer"), The Barnes Twins (as "Lois & Lucille"), Joseph Bell (as "Singer"), May Block (as "Dancer"), Betty Bruce (as "Betty-Jean"), William Callahan (as "Corp. Burns"), Stanley Catron (as "Dancer"), Madeleine Clive (as "Mrs. Grubbs"), Jean Coyne (as "Dancer"), Bob Davis (as "Dancer"), Betty Deane (as "Dancer"), Patricia Deering (as "Dancer"), Benny DeSio (as "Dancer"), Alan Fleming (as "Singer"), Jerry Florio (as "Dancer"), Albert Gaeta (as "Dancer"), Betty Garrett (as "Mary-Frances"), Aaron Gobetz (as "Dancer"), Ruth Godfrey (as "Dancer"), Dolores Goodman (as "Dancer"), Ray Harrison (as "Dancer"), Jack Hartley (as "Lt. Col. S.D. Grubbs"), Richard Harvey (as "Singer"), Betty Heather (as "Dancer"), Buddy Irving (as "Singer"), Margie Jackson (as "Dancer"), Allen Jenkins (as "Harry Hart"), Bill Johnson (as "Staff Sgt. Rocky Fulton"), Jeanne Jones (as "Dancer"), Art Lambert (as "Singer"), Stuart Langley (as "Sgt. Laddie Green"), Paula Laurence (as "Chiquita Hart"), Bruce Lord (as "Singer"), William Lynn (as "Mr. Tobias Twitch"), David Mann (as "Dancer"), Paul Mario (as "Singer"), Remi Martell (as "Sgt. Carter/Dancer"), Paul Martin (as "Dancer"), John Mayo (as "Singer"), Frances Mercer (as "Melanie Walker"), Joseph Monte (as "Singer"), Duncan Noble (as "Dancer"), Jean Owens (as "Dancer"), Jed Prouty (as "Roger Calhoun"), Ricky Riccardi (as "Dancer"), Walter Rinner (as "Burke/Singer"), Leslie Shannon (as "Dancer"), Ethel Sherman (as "Dancer"), Puddy Smith (as "Dancer"), Nina Starkey (as "Dancer"), William Vaux (as "Dancer"), Joe Viggiano (as "Dancer"), Murvyn Vye (as "Singer"), William Weber (as "Dancer"), Patricia Welles (as "Dancer"), Helen Wenzel (as "Dancer"), June Wieting (as "Dancer"), Lou Wills Jr. (as "Dancer"), Parker Wilson (as "Dancer"). Understudy: Betty Garrett (as "Blossom Hart"). Replacement actors: Leon Anthony (as "Dancer"), Tom Barrigan (as "Singer"), Dick Beard (as "Dancer"), Forrest Bonshire (as "Dancer"), Gloria Brooks (as "Dancer"), Betty Bruce (as "Chiquita Hart"), Edward Cassell (as "Singer"), Clarissa (as "Micheala"), Muriel Cole (as "Dancer"), William Drew (as "Dancer"), Charles Flynn (as "Singer"), Jack Foley (as "Dancer"), Charles Howard (as "Mr. Tobias Twitch"), Frank Hyers (as "Harry Hart"), George Lambrose (as "Singer"), Roma Leigh (as "Dancer"), Brayton Lewis (as "Singer"), June MacLaren (as "Dancer"), Jack Malis (as "Dancer"), Jerry Meilan (as "Dancer"), Mavis Mims (as "Betty-Jean"), Willamae Montur (as "Maid"), Ben Murphy (as "M.P./Singer"), Mischa Pompianov (as "Dancer"), Nancy Porter (as "Mary-Frances"), Bobby Preist (as "Dancer"), Dale Preist (as "Dancer"), Jules Racine (as "Dancer"), Gordon Richards (as "Singer"), Bob Roland (as "Singer"), Herbert Ross (as "Dancer"), Ruth Ryder (as "Dancer"), George Sabo (as "Dancer"), Shirl Thomas (as "Melanie Walker"), Terry Towne (as "Dancer"), Milton Watson (as "Sgt. Laddie Green"). Produced by Mike Todd.
- (1948) Stage Play: Heaven on Earth. Musical comedy. Music by Jay Gorney. Music arranged by Robert Russell Bennett and Don Walker. Lyrics by Barry Trivers. Book by Barry Trivers. Vocal Arrangements and direction by Hugh Martin. Musical Director: Clay Warnick. Additional lyrics by Norman Zeno. Musical adaptation for dances by Alan Morand. Scenic Design and Costume Design by 'Raoul Pène Du Bois'. Production Supervised by Eddie Dowling. Directed by John Murray Anderson. New Century Theatre: 16 Sep 1948- 25 Sep 1948 (12 performances). Cast: Lisa Ayres (as "Dancer"), Dick Bernie (as "Magistrate Kennedy"), David Burns (as "H.H. Hutton"), Dean Campbell (as "Singer"), Angela Castle (as "Singer"), Steve Condos (as "Sailor with Trumpet"), Irwin Corey (as "Commissioner Frobisher"), Julie Curtis (as "Singer"), 'Richard D'Arcy' (as "The Lover"), Ernest Di Gennaro (as "Dancer"), Dante DiPaolo (as "Dancer") [Broadway debut], Robert Dixon (as "John Bowers"), Harold Drake (as "Dancer"), Danny Drayson (as "Punchy"), Cece Eames (as "Dancer"), Babette George (as "Dancer"), Betty George (as "Officer Blandings/Singer"), June Graham (as "The Lover"), John Gray (as "Singer"), Pearl Hacker (as "Singer"), Peter Lind Hayes (as "James Aloysius McCarthy"), Bill Hogue (as "Butch/Singer"), Gretchen Houser (as "Dancer"), Marguerite James (as "Dancer"), Dorothy Jarnac (as "Friday"), Ray Johnson (as "Dancer"), Dorothy Keller (as "Officer Jonesy"), Red Knight (as "Dancer"), Carol Lee (as "Dancer"), Dorothy Love (as "Dancer"), Douglas Luther (as "Singer"), Caren Marsh (as "Fannie Frobisher/Dancer"), Remi Martel (as "Slim/Dancer"), Jack Mattis (as "Dancer"), Ellen McCown (as "Singer"), Ruth Merman (as "Florabelle Frobisher/Dancer"), Wynn Murray (as "Lieut. Sullivan"), Barbara Nunn (as "Mary Brooks"), Jean Olds (as "Singer"), Billy Parsons (as "Sailor"), Donald Powell (as "Dancer"), Dottie Pyren (as "Singer"), Frank Reynolds (as "Dancer"), Jack Russell (as "Radio Engineer/Dippy/Singer"), Bert Sheldon (as "Officer O'Brien/Singer"), Gloria Sickling (as "Dancer"), Curt Stafford (as "Singer"), Claude Stroud (as "Officer Clabber"), Alice Swanson (as "Dancer"), Lucille Udovich [credited as Lucille Udovick] (as "Singer"), Vincent Van Lynn (as "Singer"), Nina Varela (as "Mrs. Frobisher"), Evelyn Ward (as "Dancer"), Jack Whitney (as "Dancer"), Jack Wilkins (as "Dancer"). Produced by Monte Proser. Produced in association with Ned C. Litwack.
- (1933) Stage Play: Music orchestrator (w/William Daley, Adolph Deutsch) for "Pardon My English", produced on Broadway. Musical comedy. Music by George Gershwin. Book by Herbert Fields. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Musical Director: Earl Busby. Scenic Design by John Wenger. Costume Design by Robert Ten Eyck. Production staged by Vinton Freedley. Musical numbers staged by George Hale. Book directed by John McGowan. Majestic Theatre: 20 Jan 1933-25 Feb 1933 (43 performances). Cast: Albert Amato, Eugene Ashley, Alex Atzenbeck, Peggy Bancroft, Jack Barrett, Rosil Benda, Tony Blair, Gene Brady, Lauretta Bruns, Thomas Burke, Clare Carter, Jack Carver, Marie Clyde, Don Cortez, John Cortez, Gordon Cross, Norman Curtis, Maxine Darrell, Jack Davis, Vance Elliott, Eva Farrell, Mildred Fenton, Dorothea Frank, Mack Gassl, Joe Gerhei, George Givot (as "Michael Bramleigh"), Irving Green, Harry Griffin, Cliff Hall, Betty Hamilton, Helen Hannan, Kal Hansen, Marion Harcke, Raymond Hitchcock, Meredith Howard, Virginia Howard, Josephine Huston, Joe Kaye, Irene Kelly, Hans Kiendl, Irene Kimmel, Meta Korbett, Tom Lannon, William Lilling, Ruth Marshal, Elsie Neal, Edith Nelson, Marion Nevins, Barbara Newberry, Marion Newberry, Jacqueline Paige, Myrtle Patterson, Jack Pearl, John Perkins, Gloria Pierre, Carl Randall, Lyda Roberti (as "Gita"), Wilma Roeloff, Kenneth Rogers, Eddie Ryan, Max Seidl, Billie Seward, Eleanor Shaler, Harry T. Shannon, George Shields, Barbara Smith, Gerald Oliver Smith, Robert Spencer, Harold Sternberg, Cynthia Thompson, Jimmy Thompson, Beau Tilden (as "Gentleman of the Ensemble"), Ruth Urban, Efin Vitis, Joe Wagner. Produced by Alex Aarons and Vinton Freedley.
- (1932) Stage: Music orchestrator (w/Frank Tours [also music director], Maurice De Packh) for "Face the Music" on Broadway. Musical comedy revue. Book by Moss Hart. Lyrics / music by Irving Berlin. Scenic Design by Albert R. Johnson. Costume Design by Kiviette and Weld. Choreographed by Albertina Rasch. Staged by Hassard Short. Directed by George S. Kaufman. New Amsterdam Theatre: 17 Feb 1932- 9 Jul 1932 (165 performances). Cast: Thomas Arace, Ward Arnold, Jack Barnes, Virginia Bethel, Mary Boland (as "Mrs. Meshbesher"), Mary Brooks, Dave Burns, Charles Burrows, Katherine Carrington, Dorothy Claire, Charles Coleman, Aida Conkey, Leslie Cornell, Ed Crosswell, Guy Daly, Maxine Darrell, Peggy Dell, Martin Dennis, Nancy Dolan, Bert Doughty, Elsie Duffy, Clyde Fillmore, George Ford, Edward Gargan (as "Mr. O'Rourke"), Jack Good, Frances Halliday, Rita Horgan, Elizabeth Houston, Valerie Huff, Jay Hunter, Vernon Jayson, Alice Kellerman, Irene Kelly, Mary Kennedy, Phil King, Dorothy Lamb, Jeanette Lea, Betty Lee, Margaret Lee, Clark Leston, Bob Long, Helen Lyons, Joseph Macauley (as "Rodney St. Clair, Prosecuting Attorney"), Ruth Martin, Vida McLain, Howard Morgan, J. Harold Murray (as "Pat Mason, Jr."), Fred Nay, Dorissa Nelova, Evelyn Nielson, Chester O'Brien, Emmett O'Brien, Mortimer O'Brien, Hugh O'Connell (as "Martin van Buren Meshbesher"), Pat O'Keefe, Oscar Polk (as "Rivington"), Wilma Roeloff, Etna Ross, Jack Ross, Jimmy Ryan, Jean Sargent, Peter Sargent, Martin Shepard, Stuart Steppler, Helen Thompson, Andrew Tombes (as "Hal Reisman"), Kathleen VanNoy, Mary Grace Van Noy, Dorothy Waller, Teddy West, Jack Wolfe, Dan Wyler. Produced by Sam Harris.
- (1936) Stage Play: Ziegfeld Follies of 1936. Musical revue. Music by Vernon Duke. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Based on material by David Freeman. Musical Director: John McManus. Music orchestrated by [error], Conrad Sallinger, Robert Russell Bennett and Don Walker. Additional Orchestrations by Conrad Sallinger, Robert Russell Bennett, Don Walker and Will Vodery. Scenic Design and Costume Design by Vincente Minnelli. Sketches directed by Eddie Dowling. Ballets directed by George Balanchine. Stage Director: Frederick De Cordova. Directed by John Murray Anderson and Edward C. Lilley. Winter Garden Theatre: 30 Jan 1936- 9 May 1936 (115 performances). Cast: Fanny Brice, Bob Hope, Gertrude Niesen, Eve Arden, Gene Ashley, Josephine Baker, Milton Barnett, Vicki Belling, Herman Belmonte, Prescott Brown, Edward Browne, Florine Callahan, Judy Canova, George Church, Stella Clauson, Evelyn Dale, Dorothy Daly, Maxine Darrell, Roger Davis, Nancy Dolan, Tom Draper, Althea Elder, George Enz, Helene Fromson, Thomas Gleason, Vera Haal, Georgia Hiden, Harriet Hoctor, Gay Hoff, John Hoyt, Stan Kavanaugh, Irene Kelly, Lyn Leslie, Ula Love, Elena Marano, Helene Marchand, Duke McHale, Rodney McLennan, Betty McMahon, Mary Alice Moore, Jean Moorhead, Howard Morgan, Jane Moxon, Paul Nelson, The Nicholas Brothers, Gertrude Niesen, Hugh O'Connell, Eileen O'Driscoll, Jessica Pepper, Gloria Pierre, Cherry Preisser, June Preisser, Isabel Pulsford, William Quentmeyer, Peggy Quinn, J. Ramos, Erminie Randolph, Frances Rands, Cornelia Rogers, J. Sastere, Marion Semler, Thelma Shearon, Didi Skoug, Marlyn Stuart, Ricki Tanzi, Peggy Thomas, Ethel Thorsen, Williem Van Loon, Marie Vanneman, Everette West, Irving West, Ben Yost. Produced by Billie Burke Ziegfeld, Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.
- (1931) Stage Play: Of Thee I Sing. Musical. Music by George Gershwin. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. Musical Director: Eugene Fuerst. Musical Director: Charles Previn. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett and William Daly. Scenic Design by Jo Mielziner. Costume Design by Charles Le Maire. Dancing ensembles staged by George Hale. Book directed by George S. Kaufman. Music Theatre (moved to The 46th Street Theatre from 10 Oct 1932 to close): 26 Dec 1931- 14 Jan 1933 (441 performances). Cast: Ruth Adams, Dave Allman,Florenz Ames (as "The French Ambassador"), Kathleen Ayres, Bruce Barclay, Vivian Barry, Leslie Bingham, Grace Brinkley, Bobbie Brodsley, Robert Burton, Martha Carroll, Mary Carroll, Ray Clarke, Dudley Clements (as "Matthew Arnold Fulton"), Charles Conklin, Tom Curley, Tom Draak, Leon Dunar, Ann Ecklund, Frank Ericson, Jack Fago, Michael Forbes, Olgene Foster, Virginia Franck, Frank Gagen, William Gaxton (as "John P. Wintergreen"), Dorothy Graves, Yvonne Gray, Peggy Greene, Sulo Hevonpaa, Walter Hinger, Milton Hollander, Georgette Lampsi, Terry Lawlor, David Lawrence, Martin Le Roy, Jack Linton, Lillian Lorray, George E. Mack, Martha Maggard, Sam Mann, Mary Mascher, John McCahill, Charles McClelland, Jake Vander Meuelen, Frank Miller, Harold Moffet (as "Francis X. Gilhooley"), Victor Moore (as "Alexander Throttlebottom"), George Murphy (as "Sam Jenkins"), Richard Neely, Hazzard Newberry, June O'Dea, Anita Pam, Jack Ray, Ralph Riggs (as "The Chief Justice/The Guide"), Edward H. Robins, Billie Seward, Peter Shance, Grenna Sloane, Adele Smith, Peggy Thomas, Patricia Whitney, Jessica Worth. Produced by Sam Harris.
- (1935) Stage Play: May Wine. Musical. Music by Sigmund Romberg. Additional orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett. Material by Frank Mandel. Adapted from the "The Happy Alienist" by Erich von Stroheim and Wallace Smith. Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Musical Direction by Robert Emmett Dolan. Music orchestrated by Don Walker. Directed by José Ruben. St. James Theatre: 5 Dec 1935- 6 Jun 1936 (213 performances). Cast: Betty Allen, Beulah Blake, Remo Buffano, Patricia Calvert, Victor Casmore, Tomes Chapman, Frank Chester, Lee Childs, Jack Cole, Radley E. Collins, Alice Dudley, Robert C. Fischer, Michael J. Forbes, Roy Gordon, Rollin Grimes Jr., Inga Hill, Marian Huntley, Betty Kerr, Walter Woolf King, Bela Lublov, Nancy McCord, Clifford Menz, Harry Mestayer, Charles Palloy, Marie Louise Quevli, Walter Slezak (as "Prof. Johann Volk"), Guy Smith, Jr., Maury Tuckerman. Produced by Laurence Schwab.
- (1932) Stage Play: Hot-Cha! Musical comedy. Music by Ray Henderson. Lyrics by Lew Brown. Book by Mark Hellinger, H.S. Kraft, Ray Henderson and Lew Brown. Based on a story by H.S. Kraft. Musical Direction by Al Goodman. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Scenic Design by Joseph Urban. Costume Design by John Harkrider. Choreographed by Bobby Connolly. Directed by Edgar J. MacGregor and Edward C. Lilley. Ziegfeld Theatre: 8 Mar 1932-18 Jun 1932 (119 performances). Cast: Iris Adrian, Louise Allen, Mary Ann, Nick Basil, Miriam Battista, Herman Belmonte, Leonard Berry, Virginia Biddle, Joan Burgess, Alice Burrage, Tito Coral, Mary Coyle, Jack Daley, Dorothy Day, Antonio de Marco, Renee De Marco, Louis Delgado, Alan DeSylva, Marion Dixon, Dody Donnelly, Betty Dumbris, Prudence Edgar, Georgia Ellis, Jules Epailly (as "Store Keeper, Manuel"), Harriet Fink, Marjorie Fisher, Dorothy Flood, John Fulco, Robert Gleckler, Pearl Harris, Patty Hastings, Florence Healy, Hernandez Brothers, Theo Holley, Jean Howard, Stanley Howard, Mercedes Hughes, Alfonso Iglesias, Dorothy Kal, Gloria Kelly, Tom Kelly, June Knight, Frances Kruger, Charles La Torre, Bert Lahr (as "Alky Schmidt"), Jane Lane, Rose Louise, Evelyn Lowrie, Neva Lynn, June MacCloy, Frances Markey, Edwin Marsh, Mary Joan Martin, Lorelle McCarver, Lou Ann Meredith, Rosalie Milan, Vic Monroe, Grace Moore, Pauline Moore, George O'Brien, Ethel O'Dell, Catherine O'Neil, Lester Ostrander, Lynne Overman (as "Hap Wilson"), Arthur Page, Sherry Pelham, Theo Phane, Lilyan Picard, Eleanor Powell (as "Dancer"), Basil Prock, Polly Ray, Carol Renwick, Mary Alice Rice, Wilburn Riviere, Buddy Rogers (as "Jack Whitney"), Alma Ross, William Ruppel, Mina Ruskin, Marion Santre, Roy Sedley, Gertrude Sheffield, Marie Stevens, Kay Stewart, Thomas Thompson, Lupe Velez (as "Conchita"), Veloz and Yolanda (Veloz and Yolanda Veloz), Efim Vitis, Marion Volk, Molly Wakefield, Diana Walker, Lorraine Webb, Mildred Webb, Marjorie White. Produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr..
- (1931) Stage Play: Singin' the Blues. Drama.
- (1931) Stage Play: America's Sweetheart. Musical comedy. Music by Richard Rodgers. Book by Herbert Fields. Lyrics by Lorenz Hart. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Musical Director: Alfred Goodman. Choreographed by Bobby Connolly. Costume Design by Charles Le Maire. Production Supervised by Bobby Connolly. Directed by Monty Woolley. Broadhurst Theatre: 10 Feb 1931- 6 Jun 1931 (135 performances). Cast: Jeanne Aubert, Virginia Bruce (as "Miss Mulligan"), Alice Burrage (as "Telephone Operator"), Terry Carroll, Bud Clark, Inez Courtney (as "Madge Farrell"), Dorothy Dare (as "Dorith"), Raoul De Tisne, Al Downing, Jay Ford, Charles Fowler, Herbert Hall, Harriette Lake, Francetta Malloy, Vera Marsh, Sue Moore, Fred Shawhan, John Sheehan (as "S.A. Dolan"), Gus Shy, O.J. Vanasse, Jack Whiting. Produced by Laurence Schwab and Frank Mandel.
- (1963) He orchestrated choral conductor Robert Shaw's 1963 Christmas album "The Many Moods of Christmas", which Shaw recorded twice--in 1963, with the Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, and in 1983, with the Atlanta Symphony Chorus and Orchestra. He also arranged a suite entitled "Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture", based on Gershwin's opera, and using many of Gershwin's orchestrations.
- (1935) Stage Play: At Home Abroad. Musical revue. Music by Arthur Schwartz. Lyrics by Howard Dietz. Based on material by Howard Dietz. General Musical Direction by Al Goodman. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett, David Raksin, Hans Spialek, Don Walker, Phillip Walsh and Russell Wooding. Vocal arrangements by Charles Henderson. Choreographed by Gene Snyder and Harry Losee. Directed by Vincente Minnelli (also scenic design). Dialog directed by Thomas Mitchell. Winter Garden Theatre (moved to The Majestic Theatre from 20 Jan 1936- close): 19 Sep 1935- 7 Mar 1936 (198 performances). Cast: Beatrice Little, Eleanor Powell, Ethel Waters, Herb Williams, Joanna Allen, Vera Allen, Frank Baker, Mary Bay, Regina Beck, Helen Bennett, Cliff Billings, Hazel Boffinger, Theodor Bonn, Mildred Borst, Jane Burks, Mary Ann Carr, Jean Carson, Andre Charise, Geri Chopin, Douglas Daniels, Wilbur Daniels, Helene Ecklund, Eddie Foy Jr., Peggy Gallimore, Reginald Gardiner, Marjorie Gayle, Paul Haakon, Helen Hannen, Pearl Harris, Sue Hasting's Marionettes, Julie Jenner, Neville Landor, Jane Lane, Arnold Lenhart, Rose Lieder, Fred Locke, Gene Martel, James McColl, June McNulty, Joseph Meyers, Woods Miller, John Payne, Polly Rose, Virgil Scoggins, Claire Scott, Anne St. George, Craig Stevens, Sally Warren, Leo Watson, Mildred Webb (as "Lady of the Ensemble"), Ruth White, Nina Whitney. Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.
- (1959) Stage Play: The Sound of Music. Musical. Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Music by Richard Rodgers. Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Based on "The Trapp Family Singers" by Maria Augusta Trapp. Musical Director: Frederick Dvonch. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Choral arrangements by Trude Rittman. Musical staging by Joe Layton. Scenic Design by Oliver Smith. Costume Design by Lucinda Ballard. Directed by Vincent J. Donehue. Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (moved to The Mark Hellinger Theatre from 6 Nov 1962- close): 16 Nov 1959- 15 Jun 1963 (1443 performances + 5 previews). Cast: Mary Martin (as "Maria Rainer, a postulant at Nonnberg Abbey"), Theodore Bikel (as "Captain Georg von Trapp"), Kurt Kasznar (as "Max Detweiler"), Marion Marlowe (as "Elsa Schraeder"), Patricia Neway (as "The Mother Abbess"), Joanne Birks (as "Ensemble"), Patricia Brooks (as "Ensemble"), June Card (as "Ensemble"), Dorothy Dallas (as "Ensemble"), Brian Davies (as "Rolf Gruber"), Ceil Delli (as "Ensemble"), Kathy Dunn (as "Louisa von Trapp"), Luce Ennis (as "Ursula, a maid/Ensemble"), Cleo Fry (as "Ensemble"), Barbara George (as "Ensemble"), Stefan Gierasch (as "Herr Zeller"), Michael Gorrin (as "Admiral von Schreiber"), Joey Heatherton (as "Ensemble"), Lucas Hoving (as "Ensemble"), Elizabeth Howell (as "Sister Berthe, Mistress of Novices"), Patricia Kelly (as "Ensemble"), Maria Kova (as "Ensemble"), Evanna Lien (as "Gretl von Trapp"), Mary Susan Locke (as "Marta von Trapp"), Nan McFarland (as "Frau Schmidt, the housekeeper"), Shirley Mendonca (as "Ensemble"), Kathy Miller (as "Ensemble"), Lorna Nash (as "Ensemble"), Muriel O'Malley (as "Sister Margaretta, Mistress of Postulants"), Lauri Peters (as "Liesl von Trapp"), Keith Prentice (as "Ensemble"), John Randolph (as "Franz, the butler"), Nancy Reeves (as "Ensemble"), Marilyn Rogers (as "Brigitta von Trapp"), Bernice Saunders (as "Ensemble"), Connie Sharman (as "Ensemble"), Karen Shepard (as "Sister Sophia"), Kirby Smith (as "Baron Elberfeld"), William Snowden (as "Friedrich von Trapp"), Gloria Stevens (as "Ensemble"), Joseph Stewart (as "Kurt von Trapp"), Tatiana Troyanos (as "Ensemble"), Mimi Vondra (as "Ensemble"), Sue Yaeger (as "A Postulant"). Standbys: Renée Guérin (as "Maria Rainer") and Kenneth Harvey (as "Captain Georg von Trapp"). Understudies: Dorothy Dallas (as "Sister Berthe"), David Gress (as "Friedrich von Trapp/Kurt von Trapp"), Joey Heatherton (as "Liesl von Trapp/Louisa von Trapp"), Lucas Hoving (as "Herr Zeller"), Elizabeth Howell (as "Frau Schmidt/The Mother Abbess"), Sheppard Kerman (as "Max Detweiler"), Maria Kova (as "Sister Sophia"), Mary Susan Locke (as "Brigitta von Trapp"), Keith Prentice (as "Rolf Gruber"), Nancy Reeves (as "Sister Margaretta"), Karen Shepard (as "Elsa Schraeder"), Kirby Smith (as "Admiral von Schreiber/Franz") and Frances Underhill (as "Gretl von Trapp/Marta von Trapp"). Replacement cast [during Lunt-Fontanne Theatre run]: Maureen Bailey (as "Ensemble"), Jay Barney (as "Franz, the butler"), Richard Carafa (as "Kurt von Trapp"), Jeannie Carson (as "Maria Rainer, a postulant at Nonnberg Abbey") [from ? Jul 1962- ?], Imelda De Martin (as "Ensemble/Liesl von Trapp"), Nancy Dussault (as "Maria Rainer, a postulant at Nonnberg Abbey") [from ? Sep 1962- ?], Helen Feit (as "Ensemble"), Dan Ferrone (as "Ensemble"), Catherine Gale (as "Ensemble"), Geraldine Gale (as "Ensemble"), Ann Gardner (as "Ensemble"), Barbara Gregory (as "Ensemble"), Sarah Hageman (as "Ensemble"), Elizabeth Howell (as "The Mother Abbess"), Lois Hunt (as "Elsa Schraeder"), Tommy Leap (as "Kurt von Trapp"), Valerie Lee (as "Gretl von Trapp"), Sara Letton (as "A Postulant/Ensemble"), Nadine Lewis (as "Sister Margaretta, Mistress of Postulants"), Evanna Lien (as "Marta von Trapp"), Paul Lipson (as "Max Detweiler"), Mary Susan Locke (as "Brigitta von Trapp"), Milton Luchan (as "Herr Zeller"), Marissa Mason (as "Liesl von Trapp"), Laura Michaels (as "Gretl von Trapp"), Jen Nelson (as "Elsa Schraeder"), Nita Novy (as "Brigitta von Trapp"), Lizabeth Pritchett (as "Sister Berthe, Mistress of Novices/The Mother Abbess"), Lu Ann Ragle (as "Ensemble"), Bernice Saunders (as "Ursula, a maid"), Donald Scott (as "Captain Georg von Trapp"), Leslie Smith (as "Gretl von Trapp"), Royston Thomas (as "Friedrich von Trapp"), Webb Tilton (as "Baron Elberfeld"), Ronnie Tourso (as "Friedrich von Trapp"), Peter Van Hattum (as "Rolf Gruber"), Jay Velie (as "Admiral von Schreiber") [final Broadway role], Gina Viglione (as "Ensemble"), Jon Voight (as "Rolf Gruber") [Broadway debut], Arthur Warren (as "Friedrich von Trapp"), Connie Webber (as "Ensemble"), Mitzi Wilson (as "Ensemble"), Martha Wright (as "Maria Rainer, a postulant at Nonnberg Abbey") [from ? Oct 1961 - ?]. Standby: Barbara Meister (as "Maria Rainer"). Understudies: Maureen Bailey (as "Liesl von Trapp"), Imelda De Martin (as "Liesl von Trapp/Louisa von Trapp"), Kenny Doré (as "Friedrich von Trapp/Kurt von Trapp"), Dan Ferrone (as "Rolf Gruber"), Cleo Fry (as "Sister Berthe"), Sarah Hageman (as "Frau Schmidt"), Valerie Lee (as "Gretl von Trapp/Marta von Trapp"), Sara Letton (as "Liesl von Trapp"), Evanna Lien (as "Marta von Trapp/Brigitta von Trapp"), Shirley Mendonca (as "Sister Sophia"), Steven Meyer (as "Herr Zeller"), Laura Michaels (as "Gretl von Trapp/Marta von Trapp"), Patty Michaels (as "Louisa von Trapp"), Lizabeth Pritchett (as "The Mother Abbess"), Wayne Sullivan (as "Friedrich von Trapp/Kurt von Trapp"), Webb Tilton (as "Admiral von Schreiber/Franz/Herr Zeller"). [During Mark Hellinger Theatre run]: Nancy Dussault (as "Maria Rainer, a postulant at Nonnberg Abbey"). Understudy: Phil Proctor [credited as Philip Proctor] (as "Rolf Gruber") [earliest Broadway credit]. Produced by Leland Hayward, Richard Halliday, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Note: Filmed by Robert Wise Productions/Argyle Enterprises [distributed by Twentieth Century Fox] as The Sound of Music (1965).
- (1960) Stage Play: Finian's Rainbow. Musical (revival). Based on material by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy. Musical Director: Max Meth. Choreographed by Herbert Ross. Directed by Herbert Ross. 46th Street Theatre: 23 May 1960- 1 Jun 1960 (unknown performances). Cast: Anita Alvarez (as "Susan Mahoney"), Carol Brice (as "Maude"), Jeannie Carson (as "Sharon McLonergan"), Biff McGuire (as "Woody Mahoney "), Howard Morris (as "Og"), Bobby Howes (as "Finian McLonergan"), Marilynn Allwyn, Issa Arnal (as "Singer"), Patty Austin (as "Diane"), John Boni, Sorrell Booke (as "Senator Billboard Rawkins"), Eddie Bruce (as "Buzz Collins"), Nan Courtney, Edgar Daniels, Michael Darden, Hugh Dilworth, Julius C. Fields, Jerry Fries, Arthur Garrison, Gene Gavin (as "Dancer"), Bill Glover (as "2nd Passion Pilgrim Gospeleer/Singer"), Don Grey, Robert Guillaume (as "2nd Geologist/Singer"), Ellen Halpin, Tiger Haynes (as "3rd Passion Pilgrim Gospeleer/Singer"), Loren Hightower, Marnell Higley, Nat Horne, Barney Johnston, Jerry Laws (as "1st Passion Pilgrim Gospeleer/Singer"), Ronald Lee, Sally Lee, Mary Louise, John McCurry, Diane McDaniel, Tom McElhany (as "Sheriff"), Jim McMillan, Larry Mitchell, Carmen Morales, Lispet Nelson, Paul Olsen, Wakefield Poole (as "Dancer") [Broadway debut], Mavis Ray, Stephanie Reynolds, Jaime Juan Rogers, Joe Ross (as "Mr. Shears"), Sandra Roveta, Ron Schwinn, Knute Sullivan, Jacqueline Walcott, Alyce Elizabeth Webb, Beverly Jane Welch, Myrna White. Produced by New York City Center Light Opera Company (Jean Dalrymple: Director). Note: Filmed by Warner Bros./7-Arts as Finian's Rainbow (1968).
- (March 23, 1953) He was the conductor for the musical, "Paris '90," at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio with Cornelia Otis Skinner in the cast. Cornelia Otis Skinner also wrote the book. Kay Swift wrote the music and lyrics. Nathaniel Shilkret was music director. Donald Oenslaer was set designer. Helene Pons was costume designer. Alden S. Blodget was director.
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