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Jean Casto

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ActorOn stage 19391953

Jean Casto was an American actress who introduced the comic number "Zip" in the original Broadway production of Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey (1940).

On stage 9 productions, 14 years

1939 I Must Love Someone Longacre Theatre · Original · directed by Ned McGurn 191 perf.
1940 Pal Joey Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Original · directed by George Abbott 374 perf.
1942 Three Men on a Horse Forrest Theatre · Revival 28 perf.
1944 Decision Belasco Theatre · Revival 160 perf.
1944 No Way Out Cort Theatre · Original 8 perf.
1945 Carousel Majestic Theatre · Original · directed by Rouben Mamoulian 890 perf.
1948 Goodbye, My Fancy Morosco Theatre · Original · directed by Sam Wanamaker 446 perf.
1951 The Small Hours National Theatre · Original 20 perf.
1953 The Pink Elephant Playhouse Theatre · Original · directed by Harry Ellerbe 5 perf.

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Worked with more than once3 names

Maurice Burke 2 productions
John Marriott 2 productions
Howard Smith 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. 2 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 literature1 passages

  • Jean Casto singing “Zip." During the show's out-of-town tryout, Gypsy Rose Lee stopped the art of stripteasing. On the following two pages. Gypsy s sister, June Havoc, ca singing “That Terrific Rainbow.”theatre-pdfs/Thou Swell Thou Witty-The Life and Lyrics of Lorenz Hart - Hart, Dorothy.txt

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