John W. Bubbles

On stage 7 productions, 36 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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In the literature6 passages

• Judy Garland performed in concert with guest stars Alan King and John W. Bubbles, along with fourteen chorus dancers and nineteen singers; special lyrics and music were by Roger Edens.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Cast: Todd Duncan, Anne Brown, Warren Coleman, John W. Bubbles, Abbie Mitchell, Ruby Elzy, Georgette Harvey, Edward Matthews, Helen Dowdy, J. Rosamond Johnsonebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• John W. Bubbles as Sportin' Life and Anne Wiggins Brown as Bess in Porgy and Bess. New York, Alvin Theatre, 1935. [Photograph by Vandamm. Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
• Irving Berlin, Mario Braggiotti, Anne W. Brown, John W. Bubbles, Irving Caesar, Virginia Chris-theatre-pdfs/The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin - Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.txt
• Brown (Bess); to his left, on the ground, John W. Bubbles (Sportin’ Life) and Todd Duncan (Porgy)theatre-pdfs/The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin - Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.txt
• IT AIN’T NECESSARILY SO Published separately and in the complete piano-vocal score September 1935. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Introduced by John W. Bubbles (Sportin’ Life) and ensemble.theatre-pdfs/The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin - Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.txt

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