Irra Petina

On stage 5 productions, 21 years

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Worked with more than once4 names

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In the literature8 passages

• Cast : Donn (Don) (Donald) Driver (Jerry), Diana Drake (Joan), Fred Lightner (Willie), Paul Valentine (Clayton Harrison), Irra Petina (Lucy Vernay), Robert Wright (Murph), Toby Deane (Aggie July), Charles G. Martin (Miller), Jack Purcell (Waiter), Rene Miville (Waiter); Dancers: Jeanna Belkin, Lois Bewley, Sandy Bozoki, Diane Consoer, Pat…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act One: “On with the Show” (Donn Driver, Diana Drake, Troupers); “Mr. Right” (Irra Petina); “Dynamic” (Irra Petina, Robert Wright); “Blue Sierras” (Toby Deane, Patrons); “No! No! No!” (Paul Valentine); “The Wide Open Spaces” (Paul Valentine, Toby Deane, Diana Drake, Donn Driver); “Gold Cannot Buy” (Townspeople); “Remember the Night” (Pau…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act Two: “New-Look Feeling” (staged by Donn Driver) (Irra Petina, Donn Driver, Diana Drake, Patrons); “Set Me Free” (Irra Petina); “Somehow I’ve Always Known” (Robert Wright); “Remember the Night” (reprise) (Paul Valentine); “(What’s) My Fatal Charm?” (Paul Valentine); “Men Are a Pain in the Neck” (Toby Deane); “Wherever I May Go” (Irra P…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• The plot dealt with a down-and-out opera company that becomes stranded in Virginia City, Nevada, in the late 1890s. Somehow, the opera’s diva (Irra Petina) ends up running a beauty emporium, and soon finds she must decide on a husband, the town’s dull but dependable banker (Robert Wright) or the fascinating but flighty opera company manag…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act One: Overture (Orchestra); “The Best of All Possible Worlds” (Max Adrian, Chorus); “Oh, Happy We” (Robert Rounseville, Barbara Cook); “It Must Be So” (Robert Rounseville); Lisbon Sequence (Maria Novotna, Robert Barry, Chorus); “It Must Be Me” (Robert Rounseville); “Mazurka” (danced by Party Guests); “Glitter and Be Gay” (Barbara Cook)…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act Two: “Quiet” (Barbara Cook, Irra Petina, William Olvis); “Eldorado” (Robert Rounseville); “Bon Voyage” (William Olvis, Chorus); “What’s the Use?” (Irra Petina, Norman Roland, William Chapman, Robert Mesrobian, Chorus); “Gavotte” (Max Adrian, Irra Petina, Barbara Cook, Robert Rounseville); “Make Our Garden Grow” (Company)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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