The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- March 15, 1934
- Closed
- —
- Performances
- 149
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Fulton Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 176th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.
Who was in it8 named
8 of these 8 names have a person record behind them and link to one. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Leonard Sillman
- Choreographer
- Leonard Sillman
- Producer
- Charles Dillingham (Leonard Sillman uncredited)
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
Maggie Smith made her Broadway debut at the Barrymore in June 1956 as one of Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1956. But it was female impersonator T.C. Jones who drew raves for his embodiments ofTallulah Bankhead, Bette Davis, and other stars, and who kept the revue running for 220 performances. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 303
The current edition of New Faces spoofed Menotti in Ronny Graham’s “The Great American Opera”; the composer was also kidded in the 1955 Off-Broadway revue Once Over Lightly with “Melvin” (“A Nine-Minute Menotti”) (words by Marshall Barer and music by Dean Fuller;
Speaker not recorded. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 264- Originally presented in Pasadena as Low and Behold, Leonard Sillman’s New Faces had to give 137 auditions before the needed $15,000 was raised to open at the Fulton Theatre (then on 46th Street west of Broadway). Under the “supervision” of Elsie Janis, Sillman’s dewy-eyed, intimate revue served much the same function a… Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 92
- There would be more spoofs down the road (including three more editions of New Faces ), but none matched the success of the 1952 revue. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 260
- Hammerlee may not have been destined to play Lizzie on Broadway in Curtain Going Up , but the theatre gods ensured she introduced the merry number two months later in New Faces ; all agreed the song was one of the revue’s highlights, and it was preserved on the New Faces ’ cast album. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 267
- Six months after Pleasure Dome closed down, its director David Tihmar and song writers Dean Fuller and Marshall Barer reunited for New Faces of 1956 ; Tihmar choreographed the new revue, and Fuller and Barer contributed a number of songs. Two of their numbers, “La Ronde” (“This Is Quite a Perfect Night”) and “Mustapha… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 556
- The 1960s brought Frank Loesser's unsuccessful musical Greemvillow (i960), starring Anthony Perkins, Ellen McCown, Pert Kelton, and Cecil Kellaway; the Ballets Africains and West Side Story, from the Winter Garden (i960): Lucille Ball in a moderately entertaining musical (and Cy Coleman's Broadway debut), Wildcat (1961… At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 291
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 New Faces at all.
- When it closed.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.