Marcia Van Dyke

On stage 1 production

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• Cast : Billy Parsons (Willie), Joe Calvan (Allie), Dody Heath (Hildy), Beverly Purvin (Della), Lou Wills Jr. (Petey), Marcia Van Dyke (Katie), Jordan Bentley (Aloysius), Johnny Johnston (Johnny Nolan), Shirley Booth (Cissy), Nathaniel Frey (Harry), Bruno Wick (Max), Ruth Amos (Mae), Roland Wood (Moriarty), Claudia Campbell (Annie), Harlan…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• 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
• There was a musical about a poor, struggling family living in a Brooklyn tenement; their sad, bittersweet story centered on Katie (Marcia Van Dyke) and Johnny Nolan (Johnny Johnston), in love with one another but frustrated over their hardscrabble life. And Katie holds a certain amount of resentment against ne’er-do-well Johnny as she tri…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• As for the other cast members, the critics were glad to see old-timer Harland Dixon back on stage, and they praised Marcia Van Dyke in her Broadway debut. She had first been seen in New York at Carnegie Hall as a member of the first violin section of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, and later appeared in a supporting role in the 1949…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
• 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

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