Walter Slezak

On stage 12 productions, 45 years

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Worked with more than once6 names

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In the literature8 passages

• Act One: “Never Too Late for Love” (Walter Slezak, Ensemble); “Cold Cream Jar Song” (Walter Slezak); “Octopus Song” (Gerald Price); “Restless Heart” (William Tabbard, Male Ensemble); “Why Be Afraid to Dance?” (Ezio Pinza; danced by Ezio Pinza, William Tabbard, Florence Henderson, Ensemble); “Never Too Late for Love” (reprise) (Ezio Pinza,…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act Two: “Birthday Song” (Florence Henderson, Edna Preston, Ensemble); “To My Wife” (Walter Slezak); “The Thought of You” (William Tabbard, Florence Henderson); “Love Is a Very Light Thing” (Ezio Pinza); “Other Hands, Other Hearts” (Florence Henderson, Ezio Pinza, William Tabbard); “Fanny” (reprise) (Ezio Pinza, Florence Henderson, Willia…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• HARVEY SABINSON: My brother Lee was representing Walter Slezak when he appeared in Fanny , the first big hit produced by David Merrick. Ezio Pinza, the Metropolitan Opera basso, was the costar. Saturday afternoons, I used to hang around at the theater where both stars, when they weren’t performing, would usually be listening to the radio—…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: Reinald Werrenrath, Natalie Hall, Tullio Carminati, Katherine Carrington, Al Shean, Walter Slezak, Nicholas Joy, Marjorie Mainebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Cast: Dennis King, Vera Zorina, Vivienne Segal, Walter Slezak, Audrey Christie, Charles Waltersebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Cast: Ezio Pinza, Walter Slezak, Florence Henderson, William Tabbert, Nejla Ates, Gerald Price, Alan Carneyebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt

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