The run closed May 27, 1950
- Opened
- February 2, 1950
- Closed
- May 27, 1950
- Performances
- 134
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Richard Rodgers Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 181st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Arms and the Girl 1 more that season
| 1916 | Fulton Theatre Original · Paul Dickey | 77 perf. |
Who was in it50 named
Sterling Hall
Maria Harriton
Eda Heinemann
Katherine Henning
William Inglis
Robert Josias
Joan Keenan
William J Mccarthy
Barbara Mccutcheon
Peter Miceli
Jerry Miller
Patricia Muller
Dan O Brien
Mary O Fallon
Frederick Olsson
Arthur Partington
Shirley Robbins
Philip Rodd
Patricia Rogers
Helen Stanton
Bettina Thayer
Donald Thrall
William Thunhurst
Arthur Vinton
Norman Weise
Marc West
Onna White
Fern Whitney
Lou Yetter
Victor Young
Dolores Martin
John Tyers
21 of these 50 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 29 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
- Rouben Mamoulian
- Choreographer
- Michael Kidd
- Producer
- The Theatre Guild in association with Anthony Brady Farrell
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 Philadelphia Playbill cover, above right, features Arthur Hill, Viveca Lindfors (before she was fired), Cook, and Ronny Graham.
- The only previous Broadway musical dealing with the American Revolution was A Daughter of the Revolution in 1895. Later works concerned with the conflict were Virginia (1937), Arms and the Girl (1950), Ben Franklin in Paris (1964), and the most successful of all, 1776 (1969). Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 72
- With Arms and the Girl , Pearl Bailey continued her string of bravura performances in Broadway failures. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 31
- Arms and the Girl (1950), Make a Wish, and Mr. President (1962) were disappointments. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 145
- Arms and the Girl (1950), a musical version of the play The Pursuit of Happiness, was more successful, running for 134 performances. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 200
- Arms and the Girl, where Fabray, clowning alongside Pearl Bailey, made the most of her comic opportunities; and Make a Wish, where she played a young French girl alongside fellow flop-prone hoyden Helen Gallagher, and, although completely un-Gallic, wonderfully singing a delightful Hugh Martin score. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 57
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 Arms and the Girl at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.