Ray Bolger

On stage 12 productions, 43 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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Also credited on4 works

Babes in Toyland
George White’s Scandals
The Wizard Of Oz
Where’s Charley?

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In the literature8 passages

• On Your Toes . Ray Bolger and Tamara Geva (1936). Photograph: White 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
• Arriving in Boston, where On Your Toes was playing its final week, I found things in better shape than I had expected. Ray Bolger was sensational in the lead, and “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” remains in my memory as one of the best numbers I’ve ever seen in the theatre, both musically and choreographically. The book, however, was a mess; t…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Clearly, by the late 1940s Loesser was ready for Broadway. Drawing on the star status of Ray Bolger and the experience of George Abbott (the writer-director of Rodgers and Hart’s On Your Toes , also starring Bolger, and the director of Pal Joey ), fledgling producers Ernest Martin and Cy Feuer were prepared to take a calculated risk on Lo…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Junior Dolan (Ray Bolger), music professor and former child vaudeville star, presents his student’s jazz composition, “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue,” to the Russian Ballet. Prima Ballerina Vera Barnova (Tamara Geva) takes a fancy to Junior and sees to it that the ballet is produced with Junior dancing the male lead. Vera’s former partner and…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Cast : John Lynds (Brassett), Robert Shackleton (Jack Chesney), Ray Bolger (Charley Wykeham), Betty Oakes (Kitty Verdun), Allyn (Ann) McLerie (Amy Spettigue), James Lane (Wilkinson, Photographer), Paul England (Sir Francis Chesney), Horace Cooper (Mr. Spettigue), Rose Inghram (Donna Lucia D’Alvadorez), Irene Weston (Patricia), Ralph Lowe…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act One: “The Years before Us” (Students); “Better Get out of Here” (Ray Bolger, Allyn McLerie, Betty Oakes, Robert Shackleton); “The New Ashmolean Marching Society and Students’ Conservatory Band” (Robert Shackleton, Allyn McLerie, Betty Oakes, Ray Johnson, Students, Young Ladies); “My Darling, My Darling” (Robert Shackleton, Betty Oakes…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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