The run closed July 2, 1949
- Opened
- October 9, 1947
- Closed
- July 2, 1949
- Performances
- 727
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- New Century Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 26th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of High Button Shoes 1 more that season
| 1948 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it82 named
Nancy Babcock
Jean Marie Caples
Vincent Carbone
Gloria Casper
Raul Celada
Leonard Claret
Clay Clement
Edward Cole
Carole Coleman
Ray Cook
Erno Czako
William David
Evans Davis
Jacqueline Dodge
Estelle Gardner
Margaret Gavan
Evelyn Giles
Tom Glennon
Donald Harris
Ronnie Hartman
Neil Harwood
Edward Hayes
Fred Hearn
Betty Hyatt
Dorothy Karrol
Ray Kirchner
Elena Lane
Kay Lewis
Louisa Lewis
Fay Moore
Tommy Morton
Ben Murphy
Hannah O Leary
Arthur Partington
Audrey Peters
William Pierson
Kenneth Spaulding
George Spelvin
Toni Stuart
William Sumner
Roy Tobias
Eleonore Treiber
Don Weissmuller
Helene Whitney
Dick Beard
Carol Stone
Aza Bard
George Bockman
Jackie Collins
Rex Cooper
Jack Diamond
David E Dubble
Ann Dunbar
Phyllis Gehrig
Robert Herget
Bill Hogue
Chris Karner
Jack Miller
James Nygren
Keith Russell
Donald Saddler
Sue Scott
Kenneth Spalding
Isabella Wilson
22 of these 82 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.
Characters6 roles recorded
Phil Silvers Harrison Floy
Joey Faye Mr. Pontdue
Nanette Fabray Mama Sara Longstreet
Jack McCauley Papa Henry Longstreet
Lois Lee Fran
Mark Dawson Hubert Ogglethorpe
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Creative team
- Director
- George Abbott
- Choreographer
- Jerome Robbins
- Producer
- Monte Proser & Joseph Kipness
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
- 'Everything's Coming Up Roses' was a revised version of 'Betwixt and Between' (lyric by Sammy Cahn) which Styne and Cahn had written for their 1947 Broadway musical High Button Shoes. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 800
- High Button Shoes (10/ 9/47; 727 performances), again introduced a new composer and lyricist to Broadway. JuLE StyNE and Sammy Cahn provided the songs for the Phil Silvers and Nanette Fabray show. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 26
- The team had much better luck with their next attempt, High Button Shoes (10/9/47; 727 performances). This time they got their man, Phil Silvers, and he and Nanette Fabray opened the show at the Century Theater. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 538
- After several flops, Fabray achieved great attention replacing Celeste Holm soon after the opening of Bloomer Girl, and became a star (at the ripe old age of twenty-five) as the leading lady of High Button Shoes, singing the standard of the show, “Papa, Won’t You Dance With Me?” Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 57
- This was Fosse’s major choreographic set piece, his version of Jerome Robbins’s “Keystone Kop Bailet” from High Button Shoes, complete with a game of musical chairs, multiple entrances, exits, and an absurdist gorilla. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 83
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 recording is held for High Button Shoes at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.