Theatre Register

The redheads

Gwen Verdon danced Redhead in 1959 and was one. Almost nobody else here started out that way. Lucille Ball was a brunette until MGM got hold of her, and Carol Burnett went red because George Abbott thought the princess in Once Upon a Mattress needed brightening — so Broadway did not so much cast redheads as manufacture them. Hand-built and sourced, one citation per head, because no biography in the catalogue mentions hair.

12 in the catalogue.

Bernadette Peters 1948 16 productions
Gwen Verdon 1925–2000 7 productions
Patricia Marand 1934–2008 4 productions
Clive Revill 1930–2025 3 productions
Van Johnson 1916–2008 3 productions
Carol Burnett 1933 2 productions
Danny Kaye 1911–1987 2 productions
Jesse Tyler Ferguson 1975 2 productions
Bonnie Franklin 1944–2013 1 productions
Kenneth Tobey 1917–2002 1 productions
Lucille Ball 1 productions
Red Buttons 1 productions

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