Mary Martin

On stage 17 productions, 50 years

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Worked with more than once11 names

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Also credited on1 work

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In the literature8 passages

• Until now, Flying by Foy had maintained a virtual monopoly on theatrical flying systems. Back in 1953, Peter Foy developed a system to send Mary Martin and the Darling children whizzing through the air in Peter Pan . For the next half century, the company had been refining their systems in order to accommodate the needs of any large-scale…ebooks/Berger, Glen/Song of Spider-Man_ The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History - Glen Berger.txt
• There have always been injuries on Broadway. Even Mary Martin in Peter Pan broke her arm when she was accidentally flown into a brick wall. The star of Wicked —Idina Menzel—fell through a trapdoor the night before her final performance and cracked a rib. Before a performance of The Little Mermaid, actor Adrian Bailey fell through a trapdo…ebooks/Berger, Glen/Song of Spider-Man_ The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History - Glen Berger.txt
• One Touch of Venus , act I, scene 4. Mary Martin in the center behind the dressing screen (1943). Photograph: Vandamm Studio. Museum of the City of New York. Theater Collection.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
• 20 . The role of Venus, originally intended for Marlene Dietrich, was Mary Martin’s first starring Broadway role. After answering more than tentatively in the affirmative, Dietrich backed down from playing the sexy Venus, allegedly for the sake of her impressionable nineteen-year-old daughter. Martin, now mainly known from later roles as…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt

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