Thomas Mitchell

On stage 16 productions, 44 years

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At Home Abroad

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In the literature8 passages

• Besides Gallagher, the critics adored Thomas Mitchell as Hazel’s doctor, and despite a completely non-singing and -dancing role, he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical (his two duets with Hazel were dropped during the tryout). And Jack Whiting walked away with critical valentines for Styne’s best song, the satiric “Eve…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Tony Awards : Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Thomas Mitchell ); Best Costumes (Miles White )ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• PAUL LIBIN: I was a young man growing up in Chicago when I saw Death of a Salesman in a touring company with Thomas Mitchell, and I’ve had a passion for it ever since. That was when I said to myself, “I want to be an actor.” The play went right to my heart.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• After the play I saw Thomas Mitchell walking down the stage-door alley of the Erlanger Theater with his hat tucked down over his head, and I was stunned. “My god,” I said, “Willy Loman is alive!”ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• The show received mixed reviews, with praise for Gallagher, Robert Alton’s dances, Thomas Mitchell in a nonsinging lead, and veteran Jack Whiting’s comeback as the mayor of New York, singing the show’s hit, “Every Street’s a Boulevard.” But business was slow, and after five months the show suspended its run, having recouped half of its $2…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
• Thomas Mitchell and Rene Ray in An Inspector Calls. New York, Booth Theatre, 1947. [Photograph by Vandamm. Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 4 (O-S).txt

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