Kenny Baker

On stage 1 production

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In the literature8 passages

• Rodney Hatch (Kenny Baker), an unassuming barber, has come to shave Whitelaw Savory (John Boles). The latter, a prominent eccentric art collector, has recently acquired a statue of the Anatolian Venus for his Foundation of Modern Art, because it reminded him of a lost love. When Hatch is left alone, he foolishly puts the ring intended for…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Original cast (1943) : Mary Martin, Kenny Baker, Maurice Abravanel (conductor). Decca DL 79122; reissued on AEI 1136; reissued on Time-Life P 16374, set STL AM10 with Lady in the Dark and The Threepenny Opera (set title, Kurt Weill ). Contents: “I’m a Stranger Here Myself,” “Forty Minutes for Lunch (ballet),” “Speak Low,” “West Wind,” “Fo…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• 6 . Robert Garland, “Mary Martin, John Boles, Kenny Baker Head Cast of New Comedy,” New York Journal-American , October 8, 1943; quoted in Steven Suskin, Opening Night on Broadway , 525; reprinted in New York Theatre Critics’ Reviews , vol. 4, 264.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Pearson in “Get Away Old Man.” Mary Martin made a great hit in “One Touch of Venus” with John Boles, Kenny Baker and Paula Laurence;theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
• Kenny Baker from radio and movies was cast as Rodney Hatch, the barber who brings a statue of Venus to life when he slips his fiancee's engagement ring on the goddess's finger. John Boles, also from motion pictures, played the art collector who buys the statue of Venus and has it brought to New York. But it was Mary who gave the show life…theatre-pdfs/Mary Martin-Broadway Legend (Ronald L. Davis).txt
• Kenny Baker didn't mix very much with the rest of the cast members, but he proved perfect as the timid barber whom Venus promptly takes a shine to. Agnes de Mille threw some disruptive tantrums during the weeks of rehearsal and stubbornly refused to cut a single minute from her ballets. Her dancers never stopped working and had the dedica…theatre-pdfs/Mary Martin-Broadway Legend (Ronald L. Davis).txt

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