Joan Roberts

On stage 6 productions, 60 years

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Worked with more than once10 names

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In the literature4 passages

• A 1961 summer-stock production with Paul Hartman and Joan Roberts was choreographed by Peter Conlow, who two years earlier had created the role of Wint in the original production. It’s unclear if the revival’s choreography was his or was based on Onna White’s original dances; instead of “The Beardsley Ballet,” the program listed the “Hall…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Cast: Betty Garde, Alfred Drake, Joan Roberts, Joseph Buloff, Celeste Holm, Howard Da Silva, Lee Dixon, Joan McCracken, Bambi Linn, George S. Irving, George Church, Ralph Riggs, Marc Platt, Katharine Sergavaebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Cast : Blythe Danner, Gregory Harrison, Judith Ivey, Treat Williams, Polly Bergen, Marge Champion, Betty Garrett, Joan Roberts, Donald Saddler, Jane White, Carol Woods, Louis Zorich, Roxane Barlow, Carol Bentley, Erin Dilly, Kelli O’Haraebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Oklahoma! with Alfred Drake and Joan Roberts (in surrey), Lee Dixon and Celeste Holm (left of Drake), and Joseph Buloff (kneeling). New York, St. James Theatre, 1943. [Photograph by Vandamm. Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt

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