The run closed February 25, 1939
- Opened
- May 11, 1938
- Closed
- February 25, 1939
- Performances
- 338
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Shubert Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 37th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it50 named
Milton Barnett
May Block
Edward Brinkmann
Boris Butleroff
Genevieve Cooke
Ronnie Cunningham
Hene Damur
Marion Davison
Janis Dremann
The Dunham Brothers
Althea Elder
Eleanor Fiata
Diana Gaylen
Petra Gray
Ruth Haidt
Harold Haskin
Marcella Howard
Bobby Howell
Arthur Kent
Isabelle Kimpal
Nancy Knott
Evelyn Lafferty
Sonia Larina
Charles Laskey
Beatrice Lynn
Michael Mann
John Marshall
Marie Monnig
Gedda Petry
Nicolai Popov
Marie Louise Quevli
Jack Quinn
Shirley F Shaffer
Betty Jane Smith
Morton L Stevens
Katherine Stewart
Sylvia Stone
Harold Taub
Barbara Towne
Ruth Urban
Nikolas Vasilieff
Alma Wertley
Virginia Williams
7 of these 50 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 43 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
- Joshua Logan
- Choreographer
- George Balanchine
- Producer
- Dwight Deere Wiman
- Orchestrations
- Hans Spialek
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
I Married an Angel’s Second Couple (Walter Slezak, Vivienne Segal, above) is truly offbeat, as soigne cutups of Budapest. They’re old flames reunited. SLEZAK: You’ve been waiting for me for fifteen years? . . . Didn’t you get married? SEGAL: A little. Only four times.
Speaker not recorded. Anything Goes A History of American Musical Theatre Ethan Mordden, p. 479- Balanchine, George Babes in Arms Boys from Syracuse, The Cabin in the Sky I Married an Angel Louisiana Purchase Merry Widow, The On Your Toes Song of Norway Where’s Charley? Ziegfeld Follies Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 387
- She returned to Broadway in 1938 as Countess Peggy Palarffi in I Married an Angel, and two years later, triumphed as Vera Simpson in Pal Joey. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 349
- I MARRIED AN ANGEL originated as a 1933 Rodgers, Hart, and Hart (Moss) movie project for Jeanette MacDonald. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 207
- Balanchine had come to New York from the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo to form the American School of Ballet, and while he created several companies with the dancers he trained he also worked on Broadway from time to time. His talents, said Agnes de Mille, were \"beyond anything Broadway had ever known\"; he contributed… Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 312
- Simple Simon played four months on Broadway and then toured for six, and so perhaps the show turned a small profit. Its New York run totaled 135 performances, the same number of showings as Rodgers and Hart’s next musical America’s Sweetheart, which opened in 1931. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 36
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 I Married an Angel at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.