Cab Calloway

On stage 3 productions, 20 years

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Worked with more than once4 names

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In the literature8 passages

• Film cast (1959) : Cab Calloway (replacing the film’s Sammy Davis Jr. for contractual reasons), Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters, André Previn (conductor). Columbia OS 2016.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Act Two: “I Ain’t Got No Shame” (lyric by DuBose Heyward) (Cab Calloway, Ensemble); “It Ain’t Necessarily So” (lyric by Ira Gershwin) (Cab Calloway, Ensemble); “What You Want with Bess?” (lyric by DuBose Heyward) (John McCurry, Leontyne Price); “Time and Time Again” (lyric by DuBose Heyward) (Helen Thigpen, Ensemble); “Street Cries” (lyri…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• As Horace Vandergelder, Merrick selected Cab Calloway, who didn’t have much Broadway pedigree; he’d only played Sportin’ Life in a 1953 revival of Porgy and Bess. But Calloway, like Bailey, was an entertainer well known from records, radio, film, and TV. Many audience members still remembered his trademark “Hi-De-Hi-De-Hi-De” from his 193…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• Cast: LeVern Hutcherson (or Leslie Scott, Irving Barnes), Leontyne Price (or Urylee Leonardos), Cab Calloway, John McCurry, Helen Colbert, Helen Thigpen, Georgia Burke, Helen Dowdyebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Pearl Bailey as Dolly Gallagher Levi and Cab Calloway as Horace Vandergelder in the 1967 production of Hello, Dolly! Credit: Photofestebooks/Hoffman, Warren/Great White Way_ Race and the Broadway Musical, The - Warren Hoffman.txt
• 6. John Chapman, “Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway & Co. Make a Brand-New Hit of ‘Dolly!,’” review of Hello, Dolly! , book by Michael Stewart, music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, directed by Lucia Victor, St. James Theatre, New York, New York Daily News , November 13, 1967.ebooks/Hoffman, Warren/Great White Way_ Race and the Broadway Musical, The - Warren Hoffman.txt

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