The run closed February 2, 1946
- Opened
- December 28, 1944
- Closed
- February 2, 1946
- Performances
- 463
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Adelphi Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 57th 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.
Other stagings of On the Town 4 more that season
| 1963 | Prince of Wales Theatre Transfer | |
| 1971 | Imperial Theatre Revival · Ron Field | 73 perf. |
| 1998 | Gershwin Theatre Revival · George C. Wolfe | 69 perf. |
| 2014 | Lyric Theatre Revival · John Rando | 368 perf. |
Who was in it79 named
Susan Steell
Sam Adams
Maxine Arnold
Aza Bard
Larry Bolton
Remo Bufano
Shirley Ann Burton
Frances Cassard
Lyle Clark
Richard D Arcy
Carle Eberle
Malka Farber
Cyprienne Gabelman
Barbara Gaye
Jeanne Gordon
Herbert Greene
Jean Handy
Melvin Howard
Lonny Jackson
Dorothy Johnson
Lila King
Marion Kohler
Frances Lager
Robert Lorenz
Florence Macmichael
Douglas Matheson
Dorothy Mcnichols
Virginia Miller
Frank Neal
Lavina Nielsen
Duncan Noble
Regina Owens
Ben Piazza
James Flash Riley
Marten Sameth
Milton Taubman
Roger Treat
Benjamin Trotman
Atty Vandenberg
Don Weissmuller
Frank Westbrook
Stuart Allen
Helen Franklin
Henry Sherwood
Allyn Mclerie
Zamah Cunningham
Ruth Webb
Van Atkins
Oakley Bailey
Clara Cordery
Lee Edwards
Patricia Hosley
Jean Houloose
Bobby Johnson
Jack Kauflin
Welland Lathrop
Tom Morgan
Lee Morrison
Charles Rhyner
Ruth Riekman
Kathleen Stanley
Johnny Stearns
Bill Weaver
Parker Wilson
15 of these 79 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 64 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.
Characters8 roles recorded
John Battles Gabey
Sono Osato Ivy
Adolph Green Ozzie
Betty Comden Claire
Cris Alexander Chip
Nancy Walker Hildy
Susan Steell Maude P. Dilly
Robert Chisholm Pitkin
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- George Abbott
- Choreographer
- Jerome Robbins
- Producer
- Oliver Smith & Paul Feigay
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
- Broadway audiences were On the Town at the Adelphi Theatre in New York—by today’s standards, an absolutely remarkable achievement. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 247
- On the Town was nearly the perfect show for its time and place. New York City experienced a constant flow of soldiers and sailors on leave, and the public knew of Fancy Free’s riotous success. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 291
- Abbott, Robbins, and Nancy Walker of ON THE TOWN [Decem- ber 28, 1944] reunited for this comic dance musical. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 374
- As wit ON THE TOWN, WEST SIDE STORY was centered on ballet; but not for musical comedy purposes. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 387
- Five were Broadway shows: On the Town (1944), JVondeiful Town (1953), Candide (1956), West Side Story (1957), and /600 Pennsylvania Avenue ( 1976). Yet his first success as a composer for the stage was with a jazz-style ballet, Fancy Free (1944), written for choreographer Jerome Robbins and premiered by the Ballet Thea… Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 431
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 recording is held for On the Town at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.