James Barton

On stage 12 productions, 77 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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In the literature8 passages

• Act One: “I’m On My Way” (Rufus Smith, Robert Penn, John Randolph, Chun-Tao Cheng, Tom Al, Jared Reed, Richard Aherne, Gordon Dilworth, Miners); “Ramson” (Robert Penn); “What’s Goin’ On Here?” (Olga San Juan); “I Talk to the Trees” (Tony Bavaar, Olga San Juan); “They Call the Wind Maria” (Rufus Smith, Miners; danced by James Mitchell and…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• During the Broadway run, Eddie Dowling replaced James Barton, and Olga San Juan was first replaced by Nola Fairbanks and then by Ann Crowley. The national tour starred Burl Ives (Rumson) and Nola Fairbanks and also Ellen McCown (Jennifer), and included original cast members Gordon Dilworth, Josh Wheeler, and Jared Reed. The tour was based…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Early the following May, James Barton announced his intention to leave the show, citing the need to take a rest as his reason for his departure after only about half a year. This left the production in trouble, because Barton’s name was a huge commercial draw and artistic linchpin, as Lerner explained to him in the following letter:ebooks/Unknown/Alan Jay Lerner_ A Lyricist's Letters - Unknown.txt
• 135 James Barton (1890–1962) was a popular figure from revue and vaudeville, but his theatrical credits also included Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh (1946). Sam Zolotow, “Broadway to See Sarah Churchill,” New York Times , January 5, 1951, 16 .ebooks/Unknown/Alan Jay Lerner_ A Lyricist's Letters - Unknown.txt
• New York Public Library: Hanya Holm papers, James Barton papers, Jo Mielziner papers, Brooks Atkinson papers, Leland Hayward papers, S. N. Behrman papers, Comden and Green papers, Richard Rodgers papers, Frederick Brisson papers, Katharine Hepburn papers, Richard Kiley papers, Jerome Robbins papers, Agnes de Mille papersebooks/Unknown/Alan Jay Lerner_ A Lyricist's Letters - Unknown.txt
• Mansfield and W. C. Fields; “Hello, Alexander” had McIntyre and Heath and Gilda Gray; and “The Passing Show of 1919” was played by Walter Woolf, James Barton, Blanche Ring andtheatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

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