Nanette Fabray

On stage 13 productions, 46 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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Also credited on5 works

George White’s Scandals
Let’s Face It
Oh, Kay!
The Band Wagon
Ziegfeld Follies

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In the literature8 passages

• Act One : “A Girl with a Flame” (Nanette Fabray); “That’s What I Told Him Last Night” (Florence Ames, Girls); “I Like It Here” (Georges Guetary); “That’s My Fella” (Nanette Fabray); “That’s My Fella” Dance (Arthur Partington and Barbara McCutcheon; First Two Couples: Fern Whitney, Maria Harrington, William Inglis, Edward Balin; Whittier a…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act Two : “Don’t Talk” (reprise) (John Conte); “I’ll Never Learn” (Nanette Fabray, Georges Guetary); “There Must Be Something Better Than Love” (Pearl Bailey); “She’s Exciting” (Georges Guetary); “Mister Washington! Uncle George” (Boys and Girls); “A Cow and a Plough and a Frau” (reprise) (Nanette Fabray, Georges Guetary)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Nanette Fabray was the leading lady in a number of musicals, including the long-running hit High Button Shoes (1947), in which she was decidedly second to Phil Silvers’s top banana. She never created a classic leading role in a hit show, and so while Ethel Merman is forever Annie Oakley and Mama Rose; Mary Martin is Nellie Forbush and Pet…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Despite the musical’s short Broadway run, Nanette Fabray, Georges Guetary, and Pearl Bailey left the production before the musical closed and were respectively succeeded by Mary O’Fallon, John Tyers, and Dolores Martin.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Cast : Eda Heinemann (Dr. Didier), Phil Leeds (Dr. Francel), Nanette Fabray (Janette), Harold Lang (Ricky), Helen Gallagher (Poupette), Howard Wendell (Policeman, Sales Manager), Melville Cooper (Marius Frigo), Stephen Douglass (Paul Dumont), Mary Finney (The Madam), Le Roi Operti (Felix Labiche); The Sylvia Manon Trio; Singers: Mary Hami…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act One: “The Tour Must Go On” (Dean Campbell, Boys, Girls); “I Wanna Be Good ’n’ Bad” (Nanette Fabray, Girls); “The Time Step” (Nanette Fabray, Helen Gallagher, Harold Lang); “What I Was Warned About” (Nanette Fabray); “Who Gives a Sou?” (Nanette Fabray, Stephen Douglass, Helen Gallagher, Harold Lang); “Folies Labiche Overture” (aka “Hel…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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