The run closed March 17, 1945
- Opened
- January 28, 1944
- Closed
- March 17, 1945
- Performances
- 481
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Winter Garden Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 53rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it106 named
Eva Reyes
Claire Anderson
Richard Andre
Anita Arden
Gail Banner
Thor Bassoe
Morton Beck
Richard Bengali
Aleks Bird
Leonard Bushong
Nancy Callahan
Jean Cleveland
John Conrad
Jeanne Coyne
Margaret Cuddy
Jean Cummings
Sergio Dekarlo
Dorothy Durkee
Jimmy Dutton
Virginia Edwards
Malka Farber
Francine Fernandez
Charles Flynn
Lydia Fredericks
Marjorie Gaye
Janet Gaylord
Arthur Gondra
Frank Guzzardo
Perdita Hanson
William Hearne
Anne Helm
Horton Henderson
Ben Hernandez
Peggy Holmes
Edmund Howland
Catherine Hyatt
Dorothy Hyatt
Barbara Jevne
Barry Kent
Alicia Krug
Bobby Lane
Ramona Lang
James Lanphier
Terry Lasky
William A Lee
Danny Leeds
David Leonard
Lucille Lewis
Ted Lund
Andrea Mann
Margie Markle
Grace Martin
James Mate
Martha Mckinney
Jerry Meilan
Tony Montell
Gar Moore
Dean Myles
John O Neil
Leon Palmer
Rose Marie Patane
Gedda Petry
Donald Powell
Raul Reyes
Eric Roberts
John Robinson
Jimmy Russell
Naomi Sanders
Eric Schepard
Jeanne Shelby
Armando Sisto
Jerry Sylvon
Robert Tavis
Vera Teatom
Eleanor Tennis
Aura Vainio
Pat Vecchio
Joe Viggiano
Robert Watoff
Betty Williams
Hank Wolf
Louis Altmark
Imogen Carpenter
Joey Gilbert
Francine Hernandez
Audrey Howell
Martin Klein
Marjorie Leach
Eloise Marguery
George Marsh
Marta Nita
Erminie Randolph
Manuel San Miguel
13 of these 106 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 93 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, John, John Kennedy
- Choreographer
- Paul Haakon
- Producer
- Michael Todd
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
- Bobby Clark (in his squaw disguise) and June Havoc cutting up during the “Count Your Blessings” number. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 147
- starred with June Havoc (interestingly, he worked more than once with both Hovick sisters) in Cole Porter’s Mexican Hayride and what seemed like an odd match on paper, a revival of the Victor Herbert operetta Sweethearts (it was hit, by the way), Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 57
- With a career that spanned over six decades, she made a debut in the 1936 Sigmund Romberg flop Forbidden Melody. Finally gaining stardom after a quarter century in the business, she played Gladys Bumps, singing “That Terrific Rainbow” and “The Flower Garden of My Heart” in the original production of Pal Joey, followed… Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 265
- Film adaptations of Something for the Boys and Mexican Hayride contained no songs by Porter; Paris and Fifty Million Frenchmen confined Porter’s music to background noise; Let’s Face It offered two songs; Dubarry Was a Lady, three; and Panama Hattie, four. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 239
- Porter had produced his sixth successive old-fashioned Broadway hit, Mexican Hayride. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 263
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 Mexican Hayride at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.