Ray Walston

On stage 17 productions, 30 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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Also credited on1 work

Paint Your Wagon

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In the literature8 passages

• Cast : Shannon Bolin (Meg), Robert Shafer (Joe Boyd), Ray Walston (Applegate), Jean Stapleton (Sister), Elizabeth Howell (Doris), Stephen Douglass (Joe Hardy), Al Lanti (Henry), Eddie Phillips (Sohovik), Nathaniel Frey (Smokey), Albert Linville (Vernon, Postmaster), Russ Brown (Van Buren), Jimmie Komack (Rocky), Rae Allen (Gloria), Cherry…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Tony Awards and Nomination : Best Musical (Damn Yankees ); Best Leading Actress in a Musical (Gwen Verdon ); Best Leading Actor in a Musical (Ray Walston ); Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Russ Brown ); Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Rae Allen); Best Authors of a Musical (George Abbott and Douglass Wallop ); Best Composer and Lyric…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• I was stage manager for Damn Yankees . We were on the road. Gwen Verdon stops the show with “Whatever Lola Wants.” Ray Walston comes out afterward. He’s supposed to say, “What a flop!” which always gets a tremendous laugh. But this time he takes his handkerchief and hits it on the ground three times in imitation of Lola. There’s a deathly…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• Cast: Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll, Juanita Hall, Ray Walston, Dino DiLuca, Geoffrey Holder, Rawn Spearman, Frederick O’Neal, Carmen De Lavallade, Alvin Ailey, Arthur Mitchellebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Cast: Gwen Verdon, Stephen Douglass, Ray Walston, Russ Brown, Shannon Bolin, Rae Allen, Jean Stapleton, Nathaniel Frey, Robert Shaferebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Despite its closing after ninety-five performances, Greenwillow yielded Perkins a Tony nomination. Ray Walston recalled, “It just floored me. But once in a while a Hollywood notable gets handed a nomination merely for lending his gilt-edged presence to the Great White Way.” (Jackie Gleason won the award that year.) Tony Perkins conclusive…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt

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