Peter Palmer

On stage 3 productions, 18 years

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Worked with more than once3 names

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Also credited on1 work

Li’l Abner

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In the literature8 passages

• The NYCCLOC revived the musical on May 30, 1962, for sixteen performances; the cast included Broadway’s original Li’l Abner, Peter Palmer (Tommy) as well as Sally Ann Howes (Fiona), Farley Granger (Jeff), and New York City Center Ballet Company dancer Edward Villella (Harry). On January 30, 1963, the company’s third revival opened for fif…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• The third visit opened on February 27, 1963, for fifteen performances; Betty Garde was again Aunt Eller, and the cast featured Peter Palmer (Curly), Louise O’Brien (Laurey), and Richard France (Will Parker); the production returned to City Center later in the spring, opening on May 15 for fifteen more performances. The final City Center p…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act One: “A Typical Day (in Dogpatch, U.S.A.)” (Dogpatchers); “If I Had My Druthers” (Peter Palmer, Marc Breaux, Ralph Linn, Jack Matthew, Robert McClure, George Reeder); “If I Had My Druthers” (reprise) (Edith Adams); “Jubilation T. Cornpone” (Stubby Kaye, Dogpatchers); “Rag Offen the Bush” (Dogpatchers); “Namely You” (Edith Adams, Peter…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Besides the usual shenanigans depicting Daisy Mae’s (Edith Adams) relentless romantic pursuit of Li’l Abner (Peter Palmer), the plot centered on the government’s decision that Dogpatch is the most useless and unnecessary place in the United States and is thus suitable for an atom-bomb testing site. But all ends well when it’s revealed the…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Cast: Edie Adams, Peter Palmer, Howard St. John, Stubby Kaye, Charlotte Rae, Tina Louise, Joe E. Marks, Julie Newmar, Grover Daleebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Following the lead of Finian’s Rainbow, Li’l Abner was a musical fantasy set in a rural Southern community that aimed satirical darts at existing social conditions. Here the main targets are the government’s propensity for bull-dozing areas for atom-bomb tests, right-wing militarists, inefficient politicians, and conformity. Based on the…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt

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• Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
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