Nancy Walker

On stage 14 productions, 32 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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. 9 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.

In the literature8 passages

• First performance: 13 December 1944, Boston, Colonial Theatre, cast incl. Betty Comden (Claire DeLoone), Nancy Walker (Hildy Esterhazy), Sono Osato (Ivy Smith), Adolph Green (Ozzie), Cris Alexander (Chip), John Battles (Gabey); Jerome Robbins (choreo.), George Abbott (dir.), Max Goberman (cond.)ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Dedication: none, but the Three Dance Episodes from “On the Town” are dedicated to Sono Osato (I), Betty Comden (II) and Nancy Walker (III)ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Act One: Prelude; “Away, Away, Away” (Richard Kiley); “Horn Pipe Dance” (Michael Dominico, Richard France, Buddy Schwab); “Away, Away, Away” (reprise) (Richard Kiley); “Sunday” (Passengers); “Havin’ a Ball” (Nancy Walker); “Other Girls” (Estelle Loring); “Other Girls” (dance) (Virginia Bosler, Maxine Berke, Elizabeth Logue, Michael Domini…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• John Chapman in the Daily News said the evening was “disarming” and “unpretentious,” and suggested one could enjoy it if one wasn’t too critical. He liked “The Story of Alice” (“pleasantly malicious”); praised Helen Halpin (a “practically impossible combination” of Judy Garland and Nancy Walker); and the sketch “Matrimonial Agency,” in wh…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act One: “Career Guidance” (Career Guides, Nancy Walker); “Wearing of the Blue” (Nancy Walker, Company); “I Need All the Help I Can Get” (Nancy Walker); “Cool Combo Mambo” (The Kids); “You Walked Out” (Dick Williams); “Cool Credo” (Dick Williams, Nancy Walker, Combo, Bandannies, Kids); “Bringing Up Daughter” (Benay Venuta); “Don’t Look No…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act Two: “Call the Police” (Nancy Walker, Dorothy Aull, Joy Lane, Bette Graham); “Unmistakable Sign” (Nancy Walker, Benay Venuta); “Why Her?” (Dick Williams); “Me and Love” (Nancy Walker); “Remember the Dancing” (Benay Venuta, Alice Pearce, Alan Bunce, Doreen McLean, Michael Roberts, Alice Nunn, Peter Conlow, Norma Douglas, Company); “Hon…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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