The run closed July 10, 1948
- Opened
- January 29, 1948
- Closed
- July 10, 1948
- Performances
- 188
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Adelphi Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 149th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.
Who was in it43 named
Robert H Harris
Don Liberto
Alexander March
Janet Reed
Loren Welch
Margaret Banks
Forrest Bonshire
Bruce Cartwright
Raul Celada
Leonard Claret
Virginia Conwell
Julie Curtis
Richard D Arcy
Charles Dickson
Clare Duffy
Nina Frenkin
Mary Bly Harwood
Priscilla Hathaway
Eddie Hodge
Eric Kristen
Ina Kurland
James Lane
Douglas Luther
Bettye Mccormick
Gloria Patrice
James Pollack
Dorothy Pyren
Walter Rinner
Marten Sameth
Gisella Svetlik
Marie Foster
12 of these 43 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 31 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
- George Abbott, Jerome Robbins
- Choreographer
- Jerome Robbins
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
Look, Ma, I'm Dancin’! is a musical comedy in two acts with a book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, and music and lyrics by Hugh Martin. It was produced on Broadway in 1948.
- When they withdrew from the project, Martin searched for another plot upon which to graft some of his already-written songs. Molnar’s play—which Preston Sturges had successfully adapted into a semi-classic 1935 Margaret Sulla- van film—was selected somewhat after the fact. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 235
- Walker had the lead in two subsequent musicals of the forties, Barefoot Boy with Cheek and Look, Ma, I’m Dancin’!, neither of which proved a great success, and she closed on the road in a musical called A Month of Sundays in 1952. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 74
- Unfortunately Nancy kept losing her voice, \nAnd sometimes she was out for weeks at a time … night after night we would have to disappoint our audience. Had it not been for this unfortunate illness, I think that the play would have been a hit. The Abbott Touch Thomas Hischak 2023 Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 143
- Harold Lang, the young dancing star of last season’s “Look, Ma, I’m Dancin’!”, is certain for the company. The Letters of Cole Porter Cole Porter Editor Cliff Eisen Editor Dominic Mchugh , p. 323
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 Look, Ma, I’m Dancin’! at all.
- No show page for Look, Ma, I’m Dancin’!. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.