The run closed July 10, 1948
- Opened
- October 10, 1947
- Closed
- July 10, 1948
- Performances
- 315
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Majestic Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 100th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it82 named
Patricia Barker
Tommy Barragan
James Barron
Bill Bradley
Robert Byrn
Stephen Chase
Victor Clarke
Lawrence Fletcher
Patricia Gianinoto
Melissa Hayden
Jean Houloose
Charlotte Howard
Edmund Howland
Julie Humphries
Helen Hunter
Sylvia Karlton
Raymond Keast
Walter Kelvin
Josephine Lambert
Christina Lind
William Mccully
Harrison Muller
Robert Neukum
Mary O Fallon
Mariane Oliphant
Ruth Ostrander
Lily Paget
Paul Parks
Ralph Patterson
Tom Perkins
David Poleri
Frances Rainer
Robert Reeves
Yolanda Renay
Blake Ritter
Stanley Simmons
Wilson Smith
Sam Steen
Mia Stenn
Devida Sewart
Susan Svetlik
Wesley Swails
Charles Tate
Evelyn Taylor
Gene Tobin
Lucille Udovick
Katrina van Oss
Ruth Vrana
Frank Westbrook
Gloria Wills
William Bradley
Andrea Downing
Bernard Green
Clarence Hall
Robert Herget
Clara Knox
Gay Laurence
John Laverty
Ralph Linn
Therese Miele
Davidia Stewart
Jean Tachau
Gean Tobin
Nanette Vezina
Edward Weston
17 of these 82 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 65 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Agnes de Mille, Oscar Hammerstein II, Uncredited
- Choreographer
- Agnes de Mille
- Producer
- Theatre Guild
- Orchestrations
- Russell Bennett
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
- The musical was no ground-breaker and clearly not in the class of their earlier works; it didn’t even attempt the depth and scope of the team’s ambitious but flawed Allegro and Me and Juliet; Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 738
- It ran for 315 per-formances. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 270
- The first three productions Fiorellol, Allegro, and the previously never revived Lady In The Dark—were excitingly presented with striking staging and performances by leading musical comedy stars. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 320
- With Allegro, the team attempted to break more musical-theater conventions. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 464
- The show, although not as well regarded as Rodgers and Hammerstein’s greatest hits, was better received than Allegro, Pipe Dream, or Me and Juliet. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 466
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Allegro at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.