Sono Osato

On stage 4 productions, 8 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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In the literature8 passages

• First performance: 13 December 1944, Boston, Colonial Theatre, cast incl. Betty Comden (Claire DeLoone), Nancy Walker (Hildy Esterhazy), Sono Osato (Ivy Smith), Adolph Green (Ozzie), Cris Alexander (Chip), John Battles (Gabey); Jerome Robbins (choreo.), George Abbott (dir.), Max Goberman (cond.)ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Dedication: none, but the Three Dance Episodes from “On the Town” are dedicated to Sono Osato (I), Betty Comden (II) and Nancy Walker (III)ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Cast: Sono Osato, Nancy Walker, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, John Battles, Cris Alexander, Alice Pearce, Allyn Ann McLerieebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• In putting his own expectations and contribution in perspective, Kazan singled out the factors he considered primarily responsible for the show’s appeal. Apart from Weill and his music, he drew particular attention to three women he describes as “marvelous” and “extraordinary”: Mary Martin, Agnes de Mille, and the dancer Sono Osato. “I wa…ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.txt
• The first time I saw him without Randall was at Gene and Betsy Kelly's house on Rodeo Drive. I had met the Kellys through Sono Osato before she left town. Farley became the main reason I continued to go there. A Kelly regular, he had been brought into the group by a boyfriend whom he had dumped for Randall whom I wanted him to dump for me…ebooks/Laurents, Arthur/Original Story By_ A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood - Arthur Laurents.txt
• Gabey (John Battles) is our hero, smitten with a photograph of Miss Turnstiles (Sono Osato). He and his two pals (Adolph Green, Cris Alexander) break up to search for her, and Gabey succeeds. He and Miss Turnstiles agree to meet later, but Madame Dilly wrecks it, even as Gabey’s chums have picked up their dates, an anthropologist (Betty C…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt

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