The run closed May 18, 1946
- Opened
- April 8, 1944
- Closed
- May 18, 1946
- Performances
- 882
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- New Century Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 15th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it134 named
Val Valentinoff
Danny Aiello
Norma Amigo
Roy Andrews
Al Bahr
Irina Baranova
Charles Conaway Jr
Virginia Conrad
Kay Crespi
Lee Davis
The di Gatanos
Toni Gilman
Ernest Goodheart
Ray Hamilton
Virginia Harriot
Richard Harvey
Walter Hastings
Bill Herne
Ruth Joseph
Dorothy Keller
Terry Kelly
Bernard Kovler
Erik Kristen
George Lambrose
Kathryn Lazell
Larry Lieberman
Walter Long
Rae Macgregor
Charles Martin
Patricia Martin
Lee Mayer
Larry Mayo
Don Miraglia
Lillian Moore
Merritta Moore
Joan Myles
Nancy Newton
John O Neil
Dell Parker
Mitzi Perry
Sherri Phillips
Ben Piazza
Dorothea Pinto
David Pullman
Arthur Randy
Ruth Rathbun
Ruthe Reid
Renee Russell
Edna Ryan
George Sabo
June Sitarr
George Spaulding
Geraldine Stroock
Bill Tabbert
Henry Tatler
Robert Thomas
Ken Tibbetts
Frank Touhey
Robert Tower
Myra Weldon
Dorothy Wygal
Marie Windsor
Frank Greco
Milton Douglas
Ford Leary
Al Norman
Ross Wyse Jr
Ernest Anderson
Daurine Andrews
Alice Anthony
Jane Arden
Jeanne Bantle
John Barry
Peyton Blowe
Robert Cain
William Campbell
Charles Chartier
William Clarke
Jeffrey Clay
Ted Cona
Cookie Conklin
Michael Conrad
Roie Curie
Richard Dana
Frank de Winters
Jim Elsegood
Gloria Evans
Jane Everett
Edward Feder
Jack Foley
Jessie Fullum
Myra Green
Edward Hackett
Marian Harvey
William Hunter
Randy Kaye
Lorraine Latham
Jeanne Lewis
Ann Mace
June Mann
Phyllis Manning
Margie Mcdonnell
Ruth Mitchell
Beau Monte
Marjorie Noble
Joseph Paz
William Rains
Jeanne Remy
Harry Lee Rogers
Randee Sanford
Dana Stearley
Karen Stevens
Gisella Svetlik
Evelyn Swirson
Peter Thomas
George Thornton
David Tihmar
Terry Townes
Arthur Ulisse
Joan Vohs
Mimi Walters
Jeffrey Warren
Jo Ann Whitney
Georgina Yeager
10 of these 134 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 124 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
- Harry Delmar, Fred Thompson
- Choreographer
- Catherine Littlefield
- Producer
- Dave Wolper & Albert Borde
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
New York: New Century Theatre, 8 April 1944 [882 performances] West End Broadway the Golden Age of the American Musical Adrian Wright Boydell B, p. 315
- Though it was one of Broadway’s most popular wartime attractions, Follow the Girls is all but forgotten today. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 148
- Follow the Girls (4/8/44; 882 performances), a musical with music by Philip Charig and lyrics by Dan Shapiro and Milton Pascal, was a surprising success. It starred Jackie Gleason, Gertrude Niesen, and Irina Baranova. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 291
- Theatergoers in the I !JI.Os could choose from a variety of musical al ternati\'es that succeeded by relying less on the cogency of scripts than on the power of perform- ers: star-vehicle musical comedies (Mexican llayride, 1911; Follow The Girls, 1946), Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 363
- Perhaps Ankles Aweigh’s Spud and Dinky were a subtle homage (and a subtle sequel) to the earlier musical’s sailor-characters Goofy, Spud, and Dinky. The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 462
- Follow the Girls 882 performances Opened April 8, 1944 Closed May 18, 1946 Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 457
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 Follow The Girls at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.