The run closed January 10, 1948
- Opened
- April 18, 1946
- Closed
- January 10, 1948
- Performances
- 734
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Nederlander Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 25th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it55 named
Joan Bartels
Chandler Cowles
Fred Danieli
Virginia Davis
Francis Dometrovich
Alex Dunaeff
Bettye Durrence
Peter Fara
Ruth Feist
Shellie Filkins
Darcy Gardner
Ward Garner
Betty Gilpatrick
George Hall
Betty Lou Holland
Bruce Howard
George Irving
Tommy Knox
Henry Lawrence
Sid Lawson
Betty Lorraine
Rae Macgregor
Howard Malone
William Mende
David Nillo
Marjorie Oldroyd
Doris Parker
Patricia Penso
Paula Purnell
Roy Ross
Danny Scholl
Evelyn Shaw
Edward Silkman
Kevin Smith
Alvis Tinnin
Eugene Tobin
Glenn Turnbull
Jessie Armor
Jack C Carter
Jay Lloyd
Diane Marshe
James Young
13 of these 55 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
- Robert H. Gordon
- Producer
- Melvyn Douglas & Herman Levin
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
- In 1946, the Broadway revue Call Me Mister dealt with the adjustment of World War II servicemen to civilian life. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 119
- For decades, the revue had been a mainstay of the American musical theatre, but the years following World War II saw the genre’s last hurrah, with a few hits such as Call Me Mister (1946) and Inside U.S.A. (1948). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 14
- While Call Me Mister focused on World War II’s GIs returning to civilian life and Inside U.S.A. offered a sometimes skewed look at travel within the United States, Alive and Kicking had no discernible point of view and lacked an overall signature in its songs and sketches. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 15
- Because Harold Rome and Arnold Auerbach had created the songs and sketches for the hit revue Call Me Mister (1946), which ran for 734 performances and introduced the popular song “South America, Take It Away,” the critics were generally disappointed with the team’s new ef Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 105
- HAROLD ROME’s musical revue Call Me Mister (4/ 18/46; 734 performances), with Betty Garrett, intro- duced the songs “South America, Take It Away,” “The Face on the Dime,” and “The Red Ball Express.” Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 392
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 Call Me Mister at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.