Lend An Ear, 1948

The run closed January 21, 1950

Opened

December 16, 1948

Closed

January 21, 1950

Performances

460

Previews

—

Theatre

Nederlander Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 58th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it27 named

William Eythe1918–1957

Carol Channing1921–2019

Y

Yvonne Adair1897–1989

Gene Nelson1920–1996

J

Jennie Lou Law—

G

Gloria Hamilton—

B

Bob Scheerer—

A

Al Checco1921–2015

P

Peter Conlowb. 1929

B

Bob Herget—

W

William Skipper1921–1987

Anne Renee Anderson
Dorothy Babbs
Robert Dixon
Nancy Franklin
Antoinette Guhlke
Hal Hackett
George Hall
Beverly Hosier
Jenny Lou Law
Betty Low
Arthur Maxwell
Tommy Morton
Jeanine Smith
Lee Stacy
Larry Stewart
Bill Woods

11 of these 27 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 16 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

Gower Champion, Hal Gerson

Choreographer

Gower Champion

Producer

William Katzell, Franklin Gilbert, William Eythe

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

Around this production

• He won his first Tony for staging Lend An Ear (1948), which intro- duced Carol Channing to Broadway audiences. The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre 1943 1965 Naden Corinne J Rowman Litt, p. 193

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 Lend An Ear at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.