Vivian Blaine

On stage 5 productions, 20 years

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once1 names

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking.

In the literature8 passages

• Original cast (1950) : Robert Alda, Vivian Blaine, Sam Levene, Isabel Bigley, Pat Rooney Sr., Stubby Kaye, Irving Actman (conductor). Decca 8036; reissue MCA 2034. Missing: “Havana” and “Crapshooter” dances.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• FILM (Samuel Goldwyn [released by MGM] 1955) : Cast: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, and Stubby Kaye. Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Produced by Samuel Goldwyn. Choreography by Michael Kidd: Deleted songs: “A Bushel and a Peck,” “More I Cannot Wish You,” “I’ve Never Been in Love Before,” and “Marry the Man…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Act One: “Opening” (aka “Runyonland”) (Ensemble); “Fugue for Tinhorns” (Stubby Kaye, Johnny Silver, Douglas Deane); “Follow the Fold” (Isabel Bigley, Pat Rooney Sr., Paul Migan, Margery Oldroyd, Christine Matsios); “The Oldest Established” (Sam Levene, Stubby Kaye, Johnny Silver, Ensemble); “I’ll Know” (Isabel Bigley, Robert Alda); “A Bus…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act Two: “Take Back Your Mink” (Vivian Blaine, Hot Box Girls); “Adelaide’s Lament” (reprise) (Vivian Blaine); “More I Cannot Wish You” (Pat Rooney, Sr.); “Luck, Be a Lady” (Robert Alda, Crap Shooters); “The Crap Game Dance” (Ensemble); “Sue Me” (Sam Levene, Vivian Blaine); “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat” (Stubby Kaye, Ensemble); “Foll…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act One: “Chief of Love” (Voice on Recording); “Try to Love Me” (Vivian Blaine); “It’s Doom” (Johnny Desmond); “The Husking Bee” (Johnny Desmond, David Wayne)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act Two: “It’s the Second Time You Meet That Matters” (Johnny Desmond); “Why Did He Leave Me?” (Virginia Martin); “Let the Lower Lights Be Burning” (traditional; see below) (David Wayne); “Chief of Love” (reprise) (Vivian Blaine); “Say, Darling” (Johnny Desmond); “The Carnival Song” (Vivian Blaine); “Husking Bee Dance” (Matt Mattox, Dance…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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