The run closed April 27, 1946
- Opened
- October 5, 1944
- Closed
- April 27, 1946
- Performances
- 654
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Shubert Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 33rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Bloomer Girl 1 more that season
| 1947 | City Center Revival · William Schorr | 48 perf. |
Who was in it74 named
Arlene Anderson
Lee Barrie
Dorothy Baxter
William Bender
Cecile Bergman
Florence Berline
John Byrd
Blaine Cordner
Hubert Dilworth
Nancy Douglass
John Duane
Jean Faust
Joseph Florestano
Dan Gallagher
Phyllis Gehrig
Arthur Grahl
Harriet Hall
Toni Hart
Dorothy Hill
Butler Hixon
Jean Houloose
Lucas Hoving
Charles Howard
Eleanor Jones
Claudia Jordan
Elena Karina
Carmelita Lanza
Betty Low
Adele Lulince
Robert Lyon
Carol Macfarlane
Byron Milligan
Kathleen O Brien
Paul Olson
Brian Otis
Pamela Randell
David Reher
Henry Roberts
Jimmy Russell
Carlos Sherman
Emy St Just
Claire Stevens
Vaughn Trinnier
Gloria Tromara
John Ward
Eleanor Winter
Frances Gayer
Alan Gilbert
Holly Harris
Marcella Howard
Janie Janvier
Dorothy Jarnac
Evelyn Keller
David Lober
Ben Murphy
Olive Reeves Smith
Terry Saunders
Dick Smart
Matilda Strazza
Feodore Tedick
14 of these 74 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
- E. Y. Harburg, William Schorr
- Choreographer
- Agnes de Mille
- Producer
- John C. Wilson & Nat Goldstone
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
- Joan McCracken had created roles in the original productions of Oklahoma! (1943) and Bloomer Girl (1944). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 22
- The musicals of the post-Oklahoma! era seemed overly populated with these hoyden Jejune Allyson types (Daisy in Bloomer Girl, Hildy in On the Town, Carrie in Carousel, Lois in Kiss Me, Kate, Cissy in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Lola in Seventeen, and Hilda in Plain and Fancy). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 57
- Two years later Broadway was awash in period musicals of the Americana variety, including Bloomer Girl (1944) and Carousel (1945), which, like Oklahoma! , were choreographed by Agnes de Mille. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 165
- During the tryout of The Girl in Pink Tights, David Brooks was replaced by David Atkinson. The two are sometimes (understandably) confused, even among theatre buffs. Brooks created leading roles in Bloomer Girl (1944) and Brigadoon (1947), and introduced the standard “Almost Like Being in Love” in the latter. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 369
- Harburg explored both race relations and women’s rights with the show Bloomer Girl (10/5/44; 657 performances). The brilliant musical opened with Celeste Holm, David Brooks, Joan McCracken, and Dooley Wilson singing such Arlen and Harburg hits as “Right as the Rain,” “The Eagle and Me,” “T’morra’ T’morra’,” and “Evelin… Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 241
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 Bloomer Girl at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.