The run closed December 4, 1948
- Opened
- September 20, 1948
- Closed
- December 4, 1948
- Performances
- 88
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Ziegfeld Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 252nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it69 named
Lucy Andonian
Ralph Angell
Marion Begin
Jean Bishop
Arthur Brey
Betty Brusher
Libby Burke
Rita Charise
Fred Cuelar
Gene Curtsinger
Peter de Bear
Trudy Deluz
Sofia Derue
Norma Doggett
Jeanne Eisen
Stephen Esail
Peter Fields
Betty Flannagan
Kahler Flock
Martha Flynn
Vera Ford
Tommy Gleason
Ralph Graves
Marie Groscup
Audrey Guard
John Huck
Robert Hudson
Betty Huff
John King
Patrick Kirk
Patricia Kirkland
Phyllis Kramer
Gwenn Lakind
Judy Landon
Dale Lefler
Ross Lynch
Christine Matsios
Joe Mazzolini
Mary Menzies
Robert Meser
Bill Miller
Lorraine Miller
Verne Miller
Carl Milletaire
Maurice Monte
Leonard Morganthaler
Melva Niles
Gerhard Pechner
Theresa Piper
Roy Raymond
Henry Reese
Sue Remos
Stanley Roseman
Michael Sandin
John Schickling
Michael Scrittorale
Ralph Smith
Paul Steffen
Leonard Taylor
Robert Thompson
Rosarita Varela
Arthur Veiga
Mary Wood
6 of these 69 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 63 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
- Jules Dassin
- Choreographer
- Jack Cole
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 score was based on music by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, adapted by Wright and Forrest, who later did the same for Borodin's music in Kismet.
- In 1948, she was one of his co-choreographers for the Broadway musical Magdalena , and she worked with him in a succession of six film musicals during the early 1950s, in which he choreographed and she was a chorus (and sometimes lead) dancer: On the Riviera (1951); Meet Me after the Show (1951); The Merry Widow (1952)… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 15
- He noted the evening would be perfect for those who enjoyed Magdalena (which had also starred Raitt) and My Romance (which had starred Jeffreys), both major flops that opened in 1948. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 240
- Returning to New York, he found it difficult to find a worthwhile vehicle, ending up in the flops Magdalena, Three Wishes for Jamie, and Carnival in Flanders. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 63
- John Raitt had made his mark as Billy Bigelow in the original production of Carousel (1945), but Magdalena and Three Wishes for Jamie were disappointing failures that lasted about three months apiece. The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 243
- For the team of Robert Wright and George Forrest, At the Grand was their third Broadway-bound musical for which they had composed an original score (their 1945 musical Spring in Brazil closed during its pre-Broadway tryout as did their 1957 show The Carefree Heart; the latter didn’t have much more success in London whe… The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 808
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 Magdalena at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.