Shirley Booth

On stage 30 productions, 45 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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In the literature8 passages

• Act One: “Payday” (Company); “Mine Til’ Monday” (Johnny Johnston, Dody Heath, Company); “Mine Til’ Monday” (reprise) (Jordan Bentley, Dody Heath, Lou Wills Jr., Joe Calvan, Billy Parsons); “Make the Man Love Me” (Marcia Van Dyke, Johnny Johnston); “I’m Like a New Broom” (Johnny Johnston, Friends); “I’m Like a New Broom” (reprise) (Johnny…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act Two: “That’s How It Goes” (Harland Dixon, Patti Milligan, Janet Parker, Company); “He Had Refinement” (Shirley Booth); “Growing Pains” (Johnny Johnston, Nomi Mitty); “Is That My Prince?” (Shirley Booth, Albert Linville); “Halloween” (dance) (Johnny Johnston, Lou Wills Jr., Joe Calvan, Billy Parsons, Children, Singers, Dancers); “Don’t…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act One: “Mona from Arizona” (John Dennis, Reid Shelton, Ray Hyson, Larry Laurence); “The Sea Song” (Shirley Booth, Boarders, Neighbors); “Old Enough to Love” (Richard France); “Coney Island Boat” (sung in counterpoint with popular 1902 standard “In the Good Old Summertime,” lyric by Ren Shields and music by George Evans) (Shirley Booth,…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act Two: “Hang Up” (Mae Barnes, Boarders, Neighbors); “Alone Too Long” (reprise) (Shirley Booth); “More Love Than Your Love” (Wilbur Evans); “Vaudeville” (includes three acts: [1] The Three Clowns; [2] A Lady in Red; and [3] Butterfly Wings) (Various cast members); “Lottie Gibson’s Specialty” (Shirley Booth); “Throw the Anchor Away” (Larr…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• The absence of plot resulted in a revue-like musical in which Shirley Booth acted as tour guide for the pleasures to be found in turn-of-the-century Coney Island, including beer-garden quartets, acrobats, a visit to the Old Mill’s tunnel-of-love-cum-spook-house (replete with luminous flying skeletons and monsters), a Fourth of July celebr…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• The other critics weren’t quite as enthusiastic as Atkinson, but all found things to like in the new musical, and they tossed bouquets at Shirley Booth. John Chapman in the Daily News praised the score (“a lusty Coney racket”) and singled out the evening’s two musical highlights (both performed by the “perfect entertainer” Booth), one the…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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