Willie Howard

On stage 22 productions, 36 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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Also credited on2 works

George White’s Scandals
Ziegfeld Follies

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In the literature8 passages

• Cast: Willie Howard, Allen Kearns, Ginger Rogers, William Kent, Ethel Merman, Antonio & Renee DeMarco, Lew Parker, Roger Edens, Red Nichols Orchestraebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Ziegfeld Follies . Willie Howard and Fanny Brice in the sketch based on Sailor, Beware!ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• C AST : Allen Kearns, Ginger Rogers, Willie Howard, Ethel Merman (as Kate Fothergill), William Kent, Peggy O’Connor, Eunice Healy, Lew Parker, Carlton Macy, Clyde Veaux, Olive Brady, Chief Rivers, Donald Fosterebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
• “Great Temptations,” and Ann Pennington, Frances Williams, Eugene and Willie Howard and Harry Richman were featured in “George White’s Scandals.” Frank Tinney was in the “Vanities,” and Clark and McCullough were cavorting in “The Ramblers,” and so was Fred Stonetheatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
• singers carrying mikes climb proscenium-arch ladders to no particular purpose; the incidental comedy gets right down to bosom-peeking (shades of Willie Howard!). And, most curiously, Willa Kim’s costumestheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
• not Willie Howard. The billowing “Quest” song is highly serviceable as a finale. There is something essentially vulgar, however, about hearing the inspired madman promise to “reach for an unreachable star, beat an unbeatable foe.” Cervantes’ rough landscape has been planted with pretty ordinary poesies. The physical production makes every…theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt

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