The run closed February 10, 1945
- Opened
- October 7, 1943
- Closed
- February 10, 1945
- Performances
- 567
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 41st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of One Touch of Venus 1 more that season
| 2001 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it61 named
Lynn Alden
Sam Bonnell
Arthur Davies
Jane Davies
Florence Dunlap
Rose Marie Elliot
Carle Erbele
Matthew Farrar
Bert Freed
William Garrett
Ruth Harte
Jinx Heffelfinger
Jane Hoffman
Jean Houloose
Beatrice Hudson
Ann Hutchinson
Julie Jefferson
Ralph Linn
Lavina Nielsen
Duncan Noble
Ginee Richardson
Willa Rollins
Patricia Schaeffer
Kevin Smith
Betty Spain
Johnny Stearns
Harold J Stone
Kirsten Valbor
Jeffrey Warren
William Weber
Parker Wilson
Ben Cutler
Diana Adams
Dolores Goodman
Phillip Gordon
Diana Gray
Holly Harris
Marion Kohler
Welland Lathrop
Jack Mann
Regis Powers
Mack Shanks
Edward Ubell
Frank Westbrook
Lester Wolf
16 of these 61 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 45 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
- Elia Kazan
- Choreographer
- Agnes de Mille
- Producer
- Cheryl Crawford
- Orchestrations
- Kurt Weill
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
- Barber Kenny Baker slipping the ring on statue Mary Martin’s finger. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 145
- Boles, John One Touch of Venus, 120 Bond, Ruth One Touch of Venus, 120 Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 353
- Holly Golightly (Truman Capote’s novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s ), who saw One Touch of Venus . Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 887
- With Ethel Merman, Paula Laurence introduced “By the Mississinewah” in Cole Porter’s Something for the Boys (1943); and in Kurt Weill’s One Touch of Venus (also 1943) she introduced “Very, Very, Very” and the title song. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 888
- One Touch of Venus was a triumph for Melissa Errico in the part Mary Martin originally played, and she was ably supported by Carol Woods, Andy Taylor, Marilyn Cooper, and Jane Krakowski. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 320
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 One Touch of Venus at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.