The run closed February 14, 1951
- Opened
- December 14, 1950
- Closed
- February 14, 1951
- Performances
- 84
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Mark Hellinger Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 247th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it61 named
Carlene Carroll
Joseph Comadore
Richard D Arcy
Clive Dill
Gordon Edwards
Sage Fuller
Joe Gifford
Joseph Gifford
Blanche Grady
Geraldine Hamburg
Betsy Holland
Elmira Jones Bey
Billie Kirpich
Vera Lee
Jill Melford
Ray Morrissey
Illona Murai
Ilona Murai
Joe Nash
Philip Nasta
Kris Nodland
Gloria Olson
Dell Parker
Dick Reed
Richard Reed
Madelyn Remini
Dorothy Richards
Irene Riley
Bertram Ross
John Sandal
Gwenna Lee Smith
Kenny Smith
Osborne Smith
Emy St Just
William Sutherland
Swen Swenson
Norval Tormsen
Eileen Turner
Grace Varik
Helen Wenzel
Jeane Williams
Parker Wilson
Margaret Wright
19 of these 61 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 42 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
- John C. Wilson, John
- Choreographer
- Helen Tamiris
- Producer
- Herman Levin and Oliver Smith
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
Theatre: Mark Hellinger Theatre Opening Date: December 14, 19 The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 102
- the sketch “Meet the Authors” (the latter was also added to the Broadway production of Bless You All after its New York opening). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 16
- Despite its large cast and lavish production values (and a huge initial investment of $230,000), Bless You All was yet another in the parade of the era’s luckless revues, and like Alive and Kicking , Dance Me a Song , Tickets, Please! , Michael Todd’s Peep Show , and Pardon Our French , it soon disappeared. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 105
- Bless You All also tipped its hat to Charles Addams: Mary McCarty sang “Little Things Meant So Much to Me” as she bricked up her husband’s body inside the wall of their home. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 107
- Bless You All was the third musical in three years in which Valerie Bettis walked away with rave notices. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 109
- If the lavish Bless You All was one of the biggest and most expensive revues of its era, Razzle Dazzle was the tiniest. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 129
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 Bless You All at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.