The run closed January 14, 1950
- Opened
- November 13, 1948
- Closed
- January 14, 1950
- Performances
- 420
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Winter Garden Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 70th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it80 named
Truly Barbara
James Brock
John Brophy
Bob Burkhardt
Marlene Cameron
Arline Castle
Charles Chartier
Babs Claire
Barbara Davis
Jessie Elliott
James Elsegood
Claire Louise Evans
Yvette Fairhill
Lydia Fredericks
Christina Frerichs
Pat Gaston
Betty George
John Gray
Claire Grenville
Pearl Hacker
Pauline Hahn
Donny Harris
Cavada Humphrey
Patty Ann Jackson
June Kirby
Margaret Jean Klein
Frances Krell
Marjorie Leach
Douglas Luther
Jonathan Marlowe
Norma Marlowe
Pat Marlowe
Abbe Marshall
Ila Mcavoy
Ellen Mccowan
Mickey Miller
George Morris
Toni Parker
Dorothea Pinto
Joyce Reedy
William Reedy
Bobby Roberts
Jack Russell
Clifford Sales
Joseph Schenck
Eugene Schwab
John Sheehan
Judy Sinclair
Kenneth Spaulding
Curt Stafford
Eugene Steiner
Ruth Thomas
Norma Thornton
Larry Villani
Rosemary Williamson
Lee Barnett
Richard Case
Virginia Harriot
Raymond Johnson
Larry Laurence
Beverly Purvin
Fran Warren
20 of these 80 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 60 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
- Howard Bay
- Choreographer
- Hermes Pan
- Producer
- Michael Todd
- Orchestrations
- Ted Roy
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.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
- As the Girls Go was the first Broadway attraction to charge $7.20 for orchestra seats. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 138
- Bobby Clark in Mexican Hayride, Sweethearts, and As the Girls Go appeared in drag. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 290
- ayride (1944; 481 performances; with Gypsy’s sister June Havoc) and As the Girls Go (1948; 420 performances; the plot dealt with the first woman president, and Clark played the First Husband). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 70
- leading the Mike Todd “tired businessman” specialties As the Girls Go and Peep Show, his last Broadway appearance, in 1950. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 57
- If you read the scripts of As the Girls Go (1948), Whoopee (1928), Du Barry Was a Lady (1939). and Foxy (1964), you might chuckle once or twice. but in reality they were funny for the same reason that Sugar was—they were excellent vehicles for Bobby Clark, Eddie Cantor, and Bert Lahr, brilliant clowns all. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 201
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 photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for As The Girls Go at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.