The run closed May 30, 1942
- Opened
- January 23, 1941
- Closed
- May 30, 1942
- Performances
- 467
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Neil Simon Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 56th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Lady in the Dark 1 more that season
| 1943 | Broadway Theatre Revival · Albertina Rasch | 83 perf. |
Who was in it80 named
Jerome Andrews
Dorothy Bird
Anne Bracken
Kenneth Casey
Andre Charise
Catherine Conrad
Audrey Costello
Jean Cumming
Patricia Deering
Carol Deis
Eleanor Eberle
Hazel Edwards
Max Edwards
Sally Ferguson
Len Frank
Gordon Gifford
Dan Harden
Fred Hearn
Manfred Hecht
Yaroslav Kirov
Ellie Lawes
Joan Lawes
Ann Lee
Robert Lee
June Maclaren
Jacqueline Macmillan
William Marel
Robert Mills
Warren Mills
Beth Nichols
Virginia Peine
Gedda Petry
Donald Randolph
June Rutherford
Natalie Schafer
Jeanne Shelby
Larry Siegle
Harold Simmons
Lois Volkman
George Ward
William Welch
Wana Wennerholm
Margaret Westberg
Parker Wilson
Florence Wyman
Bonnie Baken
Edward Browne
Oscar Catoire
Rita Charise
Walter Coy
H Robert Edwards
Jane Gordon
William Howell
Stella Hughes
Robert Lyon
Gregory Macdougall
Margaret Maclaren
Paul Mcgrath
Carl Nicholas
Willard Parker
Frank Sherman
Roger Smith
John Sweet
Frank Taylor
Joan Volkman
Wana Wenerholm
14 of these 80 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 66 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
- Hassard Short, Moss Hart
- Choreographer
- Albertina Rasch
- Producer
- Sam H. Harris
- Orchestrations
- Kurt Weill
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
- The first three productions Fiorellol, Allegro, and the previously never revived Lady In The Dark—were excitingly presented with striking staging and performances by leading musical comedy stars. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 320
- had he not withdrawn after LADY IN THE DARK [Weill: January 23, 1941] and THE FIREBRAND OF FLORENCE [Weill: March 22, 1945], he might have done for the comedy musical what Oscar Hammerstein did for the serious musical Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 104
- By the time he ended his brief but productive American career with Lost in the Stars (1949), the German refugee had managed to produce no less than eight shows in his adopted homeland, including two certifiable hits, Lady in the Dark (467 performances) and One Touch of Venus (567 performances). Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat To Sondheim and Lloyd Web, p. 167
- LADY IN THE DARK—FIRST DREAM SEQUENCE, See OH, FABULOUS ONE, et al. LADY IN THE DARK—SECOND DREAM SEQUENCE, See MAPLETON HIGH CHORALE, et al. LADY IN THE DARK—THIRD DREAM SEQUENCE, See GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH, THE, et al. LADY IN THE DARK—FOURTH DREAM SEQUENCE, See BOSS IS BRINGING HOME A BRIDE, THE, et al. The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin Gershwin Ira 1896 1983, p. 437
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 Lady in the Dark at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.