Bert Lahr

On stage 19 productions, 37 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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Also credited on1 work

The Wizard Of Oz

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In the literature8 passages

• “Friendship” (Billy/Reno/Moon) (introduced in DuBarry Was a Lady by Ethel Merman and Bert Lahr [December 6, 1939])ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Cast : Bert Lahr , Dolores Gray , Elliott Reid, Colette Marchand, J. C. McCord, Stanley Prager, Kathryne Mylorie, Alan LeRoy, Patricia Tobin, Robert Gallagher, Richard Gray, Larry Laurence, Arthur Rubin, Walter Kelvin, Frank Reynolds, Gordon Hamilton, Bob Emmett, Jeannette Aquilina, Vera Lee, Gloria Danyl, Margery Beddow, Jane Mason, Rich…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Despite lyrics and sketches by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, music by Jule Styne, and stellar performances by veteran Bert Lahr and relative newcomer Dolores Gray, Two on the Aisle was another of the era’s revues to close in the red. But it did better than most: it played for almost three hundred performances, toured briefly with its sta…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Cast : Bert Lahr , Nancy Walker , Shelley Berman, Dick Van Dyke, Joy Nichols, Imelda De Martin, Richard France, June L. Walker, Maureen Bailey, Buzz Halladay, Mace Barrett; Ensemble: Caroljane Abney, Sandra Devlin, Ray Pointer, Noel Schwartz, Martin Charnin, Bob Roman, Cy Young, Jo Ann Tenney, Roger Le-Page, Mal Throne, Mona Pivar, Al Fio…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act One: “The Girls Against the Boys” (Dick Van Dyke, Mace Barrett, Buzz Halliday, Ensemble); “Rich Butterfly” (Husband: Bert Lahr; Wife: Nancy Walker); “Can We Save Our Marriage?” (Counselor: Dick Van Dyke; Stella: June L. Walker; Harry: Bert Lahr); “I Gotta Have You” (Imelda De Martin, Richard France, Caroljane Abney, Sandra Devlin, Ray…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Despite its cast of four major comics (Bert Lahr, Nancy Walker, Dick Van Dyke, and Shelley Berman), The Girls Against the Boys lasted just two weeks on Broadway.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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