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Elizabeth Allen

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ActorOn stage 19241980

Elizabeth Allen was an American actress who starred as Leona Samish in the Rodgers and Sondheim musical Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), and appeared in The Gay Life and Sherry!.

On stage 9 productions, 56 years

1924 Dawn Sam H Harris Theatre · Original 56 perf.
1925 A Holy Terror George M Cohans Theatre · Original 32 perf.
1925 The Handy Man 39th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Edgar MacGregor 24 perf.
1928 Revolt Vanderbilt Theatre · Original 30 perf.
1957 Romanoff and Juliet Plymouth Theatre · Original · directed by George S. Kaufman 389 perf.
1961 The Gay Life Shubert Theatre · Revival · directed by Gerald Freedman 113 perf.
1965 Do I Hear A Waltz? 46th Street Theatre · Original · directed by John Dexter 220 perf.
1967 Sherry! Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by Joe Layton 65 perf.
1980 42nd Street Majestic Theatre · Original · directed by Gower Champion 3,486 perf.

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Worked with more than once5 names

Richard Carlyle 2 productions
Leslie Franzos 2 productions
James Dybas 2 productions
Dolores Gray 2 productions
Carl Nicholas 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 3 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

In the literature8 passages

  • Cast: Elizabeth Allen, Sergio Franchi, Carol Bruce, Madeline Sherwood, Julienne Marie, Stuart Damon, Fleury D’Antonakis, Jack Manningebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Revill was fine, as were Elizabeth Allen as Whiteside’s secretary and, above all, Dolores Gray. If ever a performer woke up a sleeping show, it was Gray, who entered forty minutes into the first act and delivered the exuberant title song. The songs for Allen and Gray were fine, but the composers never came up with a decent number for Whit…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
  • Rehearsing for Do I Hear A Waltz?: Sondheim, Julienne Marie (seated), Carol Bruce, Richard Rodgers, and Elizabeth Allen, the star of the show, 1965 (Illustration Credit 45)ebooks/Secrest, Meryle/Stephen Sondheim - Meryle Secrest.txt
  • Elizabeth Allen was in the show and she had been the star of the first show I ever did professionally in Kansas City. Madeline Sherwood was in it, who I had seen in the movie Sweet Bird of Youth , and Carol Bruce, who was a hoot and a half. There was a wonderful woman named Fleury D’Antonakis, who played the maid in the show, who I would…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer/Untold Stories of Broadway, Part 1, The - Jennifer Tepper.txt
  • SERGIO FRANCHI, ELIZABETH ALLEN in “DO | HEAR A WALTZ?” === —S S_—__SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSQSQ ssstheatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • starring Elizabeth Allen and Sergio Franchi. with Carol Bruce, Madeleine Sherwood, Julienne Marie, Stuarttheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt

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