Dance Me a Song, 1950

The run closed February 18, 1950

Opened

January 20, 1950

Closed

February 18, 1950

Performances

35

Previews

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Theatre

Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 372nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it27 named

F

Francine Bond—

C

Carmina Cansino—

C

Cliff Ferre—

Bob Fosse1927–1987

H

Hope Foye—

M

Marilyn Gennaro—

J

June Graham—

B

Babe Hines—

M

Marian Horosko—

J

Jimmy Kirkwood—

H

Heidi Krall—

D

Don Little—

M

Marion Lorne—

D

Dusty McCaffrey—

J

Joan McCracken—

B

Biff McGuire—

S

Scott Merrill—

Erik Rhodes1906–1990

Douglas Moppert
Mary Ann Niles
Tina Prescott
Cynthia Rogers
Alan Ross
Donald Saddler
Bob Scheerer
Silver
Ann Thomas

20 of these 27 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 7 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

James Shelton

Choreographer

Robert Sidney

Producer

Dwight Deere Wiman in association with Robert Ross

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 the fifteen years following the war, some two dozen revues opened on Broadway, most of them failures and most of them lacking a point of view. Many critics noted the revues had a number of composers, lyricists, and sketch writers, and the large number of contributors left the revues unfocused and scattershot. The fi… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 14
• Dance Me a Song was another in a string of now-forgotten revues that were generally dismissed by the critics and public, had relatively short Broadway runs, and left behind not a single cast album. But unlike Small Wonder (1948), Along Fifth Avenue (1949), Touch and Go (1949), and Alive and Kicking before it, and Ticke… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 21
• 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
• Shelton’s delicate ballad “I’m the Girl” was used in his 1950 revue Dance Me a Song Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 494
• Dance Me a Song, an intimate revue, was not a hit, but it served to introduce the delightful comic Wally Cox, who wrote his own very funny monologues. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 254

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 Dance Me a Song at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.