On stage 5 productions, 13 years
| 1947 | Finian’s Rainbow 46th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Bretaigne Windust | 725 perf. |
| 1951 | Paint Your Wagon Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Daniel Mann | 289 perf. |
| 1953 | Cyrano de Bergerac City Center · Revival · directed by José Ferrer | 15 perf. |
| 1957 | Livin' The Life Phoenix Theatre · Original · directed by David Alexander | 25 perf. |
| 1960 | Bye Bye Birdie Martin Beck Theatre · Original · directed by Gower Champion | 607 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 once2 names
| Kay Medford | 2 productions |
| James Mitchell | 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.
In the literature2 passages
- Act One: “I’m On My Way” (Rufus Smith, Robert Penn, John Randolph, Chun-Tao Cheng, Tom Al, Jared Reed, Richard Aherne, Gordon Dilworth, Miners); “Ramson” (Robert Penn); “What’s Goin’ On Here?” (Olga San Juan); “I Talk to the Trees” (Tony Bavaar, Olga San Juan); “They Call the Wind Maria” (Rufus Smith, Miners; danced by James Mitchell and…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- “Hymn for a Sunday Evening” from Bye Bye Birdie. With Paul Lynde, Marijane Maricle, Susan Watson, Johnny Borden and the Original Broadway Cast. Narr. Dick Van Dyke. Dir. and chor. Gower Champion. Prod. Edward Padula. The Ed Sullivan Show , CBS, WCBS, New York, 12 Jun. 1960.ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.
What this page does not know
- What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
- Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
- Which of the credits above the roles on this record — actor — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.