The run closed September 15, 1951
- Opened
- December 8, 1949
- Closed
- September 15, 1951
- Performances
- 740
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Ziegfeld Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 24th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 3 more that season
| 1926 | Times Square Theatre Original | 199 perf. |
| 1962 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 1995 | Lyceum Theatre Revival · Charles Repole | 24 perf. |
Who was in it90 named
Suzanne Ames
Charles Basile
Bill Bradley
Bob Burkhardt
Angela Castle
Joan Coburn
Robert Cooper
Jerry Craig
Crandall Diehl
William Diehl
Pat Donohue
Anna Rita Duffy
Nicole France
Aristide J Ginoulias
Pauline Goddard
Patty Ann Jackson
Fran Keegan
Annette Kohl
Kazimir Kokic
William Krach
Alicia Krug
John Laverty
Shelton Lewis
Mary Martinet
Irving Mitchell
Candy Montgomery
Bob Neukum
Caren Preiss
Reta Shaw
Judy Sinclair
Curt Stafford
Junior Standish
Evelyn Taylor
Norma Thornton
Lucille Udovick
David Vogel
Polly Ward
Prue Ward
Beverly Jane Weston
Eddie Weston
Marjorie Winters
Helen Wood
Hope Zee
Meredith Baylis
Heber Cannon
Robert Chisholm
Carol Cole
Kathy Collin
Anne Collins
Shirl Conway
Georgine Darcy
Sara Dillon
Marcella Dodge
Pam Donohue
Beth Douglas
Rise Drake
Pat Gaston
Jack Gray
Jay Harnick
Sue Hight
Doris Hollingsworth
June Kirby
Martha Mathes
Sherry Mccutcheon
Glenn Olson
Betty O Neil
Ann Sparkman
Brik Tone
Bob Trehy
Paula Trueman
Ruth Webb
James White
25 of these 90 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 65 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
- Agnes de Mille
- Producer
- Herman Levin & 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.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Recordings 1 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
- Wilson, John C. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Kiss Me, Kate Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 387
- Vernon was also his assistant for the 1953 film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 15
- Carol Channing in a revised version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, called Lorelei (1974). At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 87
- Styne’s next show wasn’t as successful, but it was important as the first meeting between Styne and his longtime collaborators Comden and Green. Two on the Aisle (7/19/51; 281 performances) was Styne’s only Broadway revue and was written to fit the talents of Bert Lahr and Dolores Gray. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 538
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes has remained an especially vital property. The film musical version was released in 1953, and, in 1974, Carol Channing returned to the part in a revised version titled Lorelet. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 134
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.
- Which of the 1 recordings of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.