The run closed July 19, 1952
- Opened
- November 12, 1951
- Closed
- July 19, 1952
- Performances
- 289
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Shubert Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 101st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it70 named
Richard Aherne
Tom Ai
Delbert Anderson
Gino Baldi
Ralph Bunker
Mary Burr
Tamara Chapman
Stephen Cheng
Jack Dabdoub
Gordon Dilworth
Joan Djorup
John Faulkner
Robert Flavelle
Katia Geleznova
Lorraine Havercroft
Dorothy Hill
Stuart Hodes
Jean Houloose
Carmelita Lanza
Bert Matthews
Robert Morrow
Ilona Murai
Paul Olson
Robert Penn
Dick Price
Charlotte Ray
Mavis Ray
Jared Reed
Frederick Schaeffen
John Schickling
Jack Sheehan
Jan Sherwood
Rufus Smith
John Spach
Guy Stanbaugh
Newton Sullivan
Gisella Svetlik
Feodore Tedick
David Thomas
Edgar Thompson
Norman Weise
Josh Wheeler
Naomi Boneck
Angus Cairns
Chun Tao Cheng
Miriam Cole
Dan Danforth
Peggy Engel
John Ford
Kenneth Leroy
Martha Mathes
Duncan Noble
Evelyn Taylor
17 of these 70 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 53 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
- Daniel Mann
- Choreographer
- Agnes de Mille
- Producer
- Cheryl Crawford
- Orchestrations
- Ted Royal
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.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
- The sketches included take-offs on such recent Broadway musicals and plays as Michael Todd’s Peep Show, Paint Your Wagon, Death of a Salesman, and The Shrike. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 266
- Atkinson also mentioned that the team’s short-lived Paint Your Wagon should have enjoyed a much longer New York run. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 620
- Lerner and Loewe show Paint Your Wagon (1951), starring James Barton, stayed for 289 performances; At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 103
- Lerner and Loewe’s previous scores gave no indication of the depth of emotion, humor, or sophistication that was to come in Brigadoon (not to mention Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, and others). Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 46
- Agnes de Mille continued working with other major talents, spanning the globe and history with her versatile work for such shows as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Out of This World, and Paint Your Wagon. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 62
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 Paint Your Wagon at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.