Wilbur Evans

On stage 8 productions, 23 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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In the literature8 passages

• 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 original London production opened at the Drury Lane on November 1, 1951, for 802 performances with Mary Martin (Nellie), Wilbur Evans (De Becque), Peter Grant (Cable), Muriel Smith (Bloody Mary), Ray Walston (Billis), and Betta St. John (Liat); Martin’s son Larry Hagman was one of the Seabees (and during the run, Sean Connery appeared…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• A Summer 1959 summer-stock production (with Murray Matheson, Wilbur Evans, Lola Fisher, and Suzanne Bernard) added the song “Mae’s Etc.!,” which was placed between “Give It All You’ve Got” and “Love Is Hell”; and for the second act her character was given the interpolated “The Birth of the Blues” (from George White Scandals of 1926 ; lyri…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Cast: Bobby Clark, June Havoc, George Givot, Wilbur Evans, Luba Malina, Corinna Mura, Paul Haakon, Edith Meiser, Bill Callahan, Candy Jonesebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Cast: Wilbur Evans, Maureen Cannon, Betty Bruce, Noah Beery, Maurice Burke, Charles Irwin, Robert Rounsevilleebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• EBB: That’s right. No, it’s not, but who cares? Wasn’t Wilbur Evans in Up in Central Park?ebooks/Lawrence, Greg/Colored Lights_ Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz - Greg Lawrence & John Kander & Fred Ebb.txt

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