Theatre Register

Lou Wills Jr.

Shows · Lou Wills Jr.

ActorOn stage 19411970

On stage 9 productions, 29 years

1941 Best Foot Forward Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Original · directed by George Abbott 326 perf.
1943 One Touch of Venus Imperial Theatre · Original · directed by Elia Kazan 567 perf.
1943 Something for the Boys Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by Hassard Short 422 perf.
1944 Laffing Room Only Winter Garden Theatre · Original · directed by John Murray Anderson 232 perf.
1945 Are You With It? New Century Theatre · Original · directed by Edward Reveaux 264 perf.
1947 Louisiana Lady New Century Theatre · Original · directed by Edgar MacGregor 4 perf.
1951 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by George Abbott 270 perf.
1951 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn “A New Musical” Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by George Abbott 270 perf.
1970 Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen Majestic Theatre · Original · directed by Marc Breaux 19 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once12 names

Val Buttignol 3 productions
Doris York 3 productions
Dolores Goodman 3 productions
Billy Parsons 3 productions
William Weber 2 productions
William Carson 2 productions
Terry Castagna 2 productions
Stuart Langley 2 productions
Shirley Booth 2 productions
Ruth Amos 2 productions
Roland Wood 2 productions
Ray Harrison 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 6 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

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