David Wayne

On stage 19 productions, 29 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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Also credited on1 work

Finian’s Rainbow

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In the literature8 passages

• Original Lincoln Center revival cast (1966) : Barbara Cook, Constance Towers, Stephen Douglass, David Wayne, William Warfield, Franz Allers (conductor). RCA LSO 1126.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Cast : Gordon B. Clarke (Mr. Schneider), Constance Ford (Frankie Jordan), David Wayne (Jack Jordan), Jack Naughton (Photographer, Waiter), Jack Manning (Pilot Roy Peters), Robert Morse (Ted Snow), Eileen Letchworth (June), Horace McMahon (Schatzie Harris), Jerome Cowan (Richard Hackett), Vivian Blaine (Irene Lovelle), Johnny Desmond (Rudy…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act One: “Chief of Love” (Voice on Recording); “Try to Love Me” (Vivian Blaine); “It’s Doom” (Johnny Desmond); “The Husking Bee” (Johnny Desmond, David Wayne)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• John McClain in the New York Journal-American said the play had “enormous style and humor and lilt,” and David Wayne was “utterly believable” as the theatre novice (he also noted that Wayne stopped the show with “Something’s Always Happening on the River”); Richard Watts in the New York Post found Say, Darling “an enormously engaging and…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Gower conducted the remainder of the casting process in a similar way inclusive of producer, songwriters, and librettist. 33 Actor David Wayne, who had won Broadway renown as the leprechaun in Finian’s Rainbow (1947), was chosen to play Grandpère Alexandre Bonnard, the seventy-plus but still sassy patriarch who sported Maurice Chevalier-l…ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
• “A Certain Girl” and title song from The Happy Time. With Robert Goulet, David Wayne, and Mike Rupert. Narr. Robert Goulet. Dir. and chor. Gower Champion. Prod. David Merrick. 22nd Annual Tony Awards. NBC, WNBC, Shubert Theatre, New York, 21 Apr. 1968.ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt

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