Johnny Johnston

On stage 3 productions, 17 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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In the literature6 passages

• Act One: “Payday” (Company); “Mine Til’ Monday” (Johnny Johnston, Dody Heath, Company); “Mine Til’ Monday” (reprise) (Jordan Bentley, Dody Heath, Lou Wills Jr., Joe Calvan, Billy Parsons); “Make the Man Love Me” (Marcia Van Dyke, Johnny Johnston); “I’m Like a New Broom” (Johnny Johnston, Friends); “I’m Like a New Broom” (reprise) (Johnny…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act Two: “That’s How It Goes” (Harland Dixon, Patti Milligan, Janet Parker, Company); “He Had Refinement” (Shirley Booth); “Growing Pains” (Johnny Johnston, Nomi Mitty); “Is That My Prince?” (Shirley Booth, Albert Linville); “Halloween” (dance) (Johnny Johnston, Lou Wills Jr., Joe Calvan, Billy Parsons, Children, Singers, Dancers); “Don’t…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Cast: Shirley Booth, Johnny Johnston, Marcia Van Dyke, Nomi Mitty, Nathaniel Frey, Harland Dixon, Lou Wills Jr.ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• . . . First, Dance as Narrative, in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Right , Lou Wills Jr. and bordello girls haunt cowering Johnny Johnston on Halloween. (Choreography by Herbert Ross.) Below , more Goldilocks in a Dream Ballet by Agnes de Mille: Pat Stanley separates Princesses from Prince Charmings in “Lady in Waiting,” because she wants a hu…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
• The rest of the cast was of no great eclat: Johnny Johnston as Johnny (a sharp agent, or something, got him top billing with Booth), Marcia Van Dyke as Katie, musical comedy regular Nathaniel Frey as Oscar, and Nomi Mitty as Francie, with a fine veteran of the past, Harland Dixon, a dancing comic prominent in the 1920s, as the old-clothes…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/B0035RP5R8 EBOK - Ethan Mordden.txt
• JOHNNY JOHNSTON, 81, St-Louis-born singer/actor, died Jan.6, 1996. Known mostly as a singer, he was the male lead in the Bdwy musical A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. GEORGEtheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1995-96 Season, v.52 (Willis).txt

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