The run closed March 3, 1951
- Opened
- February 6, 1951
- Closed
- March 3, 1951
- Performances
- 31
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- 48th Street Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 387th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it52 named
Nancy Curtis
Leone Exton
Valerie Exton
Florence Farmer
Walter Farmer
Ilene Godfrey
Leland Holland
Nancy Hore Ruthven
Sally Hore Ruthven
Helen Hunter
Vere James
Barbara Jardine
Tom Kennedy
Hope Kitchen
Phyllis Konstam
Phyllis Limburg
Ed Macrae
Frank Mcgee
Clare Meynell
Eric Millar
Hugh Nowell
Rosemary Pinsent
Elsa Purdy
Ruth Ridgway
Ron Roberts
Juliet Rodd
Harold Sack
Norman Schwab
Ivor Sharp
Frank Sherry
Dick Stollery
Greta Stollery
Bill Stubbs
Ben Trotter
Ken Twitchell Jr
Scoville Wishard
Rea Zimmerman
15 of these 52 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 37 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
- Howard Reynolds in association, Lena Ashwell, OBE
- Choreographer
- June Day, Christine Nowell
- Producer
- Moral Re-Armament, and Howard Reynolds in association with Lena Ashwell, OBE
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
- And six book musicals weren’t for the record: it appears that Happy as Larry, The Liar, Jotham Valley, Hit the Trail, Portofino, and Happy Town went commercially unrecorded. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 5
- The musical is generally ignored in Broadway reference books, perhaps because it was perceived as a privately financed musical by amateurs that had the air of a vanity production about it. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 125
- The six book musicals for which it appears no songs have been commercially recorded are: Happy as Larry, The Liar, Jotham Valley, Hit the Trail, Portofino, and Happy Town. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 875
- six book musicals weren’t for the record: it appears that Happy as Larry, The Liar, Jotham Valley, Hit the Trail, Portofino, and Happy Town went commercially unrecorded. The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 5
- The musical is distinguished for having one of the most collectible of Broadway programs (Playbill-sized programs, which seem to have been printed by Playbill magazine, were given to the audience). The rare program is distinguished as the first to use an all-color artwork cover. The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 127
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 Jotham Valley at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.