John Battles

On stage 3 productions, 17 years

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Worked with more than once3 names

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In the literature8 passages

• Cast: Sono Osato, Nancy Walker, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, John Battles, Cris Alexander, Alice Pearce, Allyn Ann McLerieebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Cast: John Battles, Annamary Dickey, William Ching, John Conte, Muriel O’Malley, Lisa Kirk, Roberta Jonayebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• With Don Ameche as the show’s sole draw, and John Battles, not seen on Broadway since he took leads in On the Town and Allegro in the forties, playing Ameche’s secretary and understudying the role of Chun, 13 Daughters, in spite of its absurd plot and weak score, somehow received several favorable reviews. But by then Broadway had seen mu…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
• Gabey (John Battles) is our hero, smitten with a photograph of Miss Turnstiles (Sono Osato). He and his two pals (Adolph Green, Cris Alexander) break up to search for her, and Gabey succeeds. He and Miss Turnstiles agree to meet later, but Madame Dilly wrecks it, even as Gabey’s chums have picked up their dates, an anthropologist (Betty C…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
• John Battles (Gabey) and Sono Osato (Ivy) in front of Oliver Smith’s set for the Coney Island roller coaster (Act II, Scene 5) . Photofest Digital Archive.ebooks/Oja, Carol J_/Bernstein Meets Broadway_ Collaborative Art in a Time of War (Broadway Legacies) - Carol J. Oja.txt
• Another personnel issue occurred only two weeks into the run, when Remo Bufano, a celebrated puppeteer who had been playing the walk-on role of Figment, left for the West Coast because of an “MGM deal,” according to “Showlog.” 150 Then in February, John Battles was ill for a time, and Abbott wrote to Clark about having heard “that Peerles…ebooks/Oja, Carol J_/Bernstein Meets Broadway_ Collaborative Art in a Time of War (Broadway Legacies) - Carol J. Oja.txt

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