The run closed May 12, 1945
- Opened
- December 7, 1944
- Closed
- May 12, 1945
- Performances
- 183
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Ziegfeld Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 150th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it94 named
Robert Austin
Franca Baldwin
Truly Barbara
Virginia Barnes
Michael Barrett
Johnsie Bason
John Beggs
Susan Blanchard
Phyllis Brown
Charlotte Bruce
Angelina Buttignol
Albert Carroll
Sonny Cavell
Jean Colleran
Evangeline Collis
Margaretta de Valera
Nina Dean
Bettye Durrence
Paddy Ellerton
Rose Marie Elliott
Paul Fairleigh
Adriana Favaloro
Morey Feld
Louise Ferrand
Jerry Florio
Arlene Garver
Mimi Gomber
Alan Grossman
Edward Hackett
Jean Harris
Vincent Henry
Robert Herring
Alma Holt
Raynor Howell
Stella Hughes
Ray Johnson
Jim Kane
Harriet Katzman
Thomas Kenny
Robert Kimberly
Savona King
Mary Ann Krejci
Barry Laffin
Lee Lauterbur
Constance Love
Ethel Madson
Richard Martin
John Mathews
Viki Maulsby
Jere Mcmahon
Gayle Mellott
Buddy Millard
Dickie Millard
Marty Miller
Helen Molveau
Dennie Moore
Louise Newton
Red Norvo
Paul Olson
Richmond Page
Michael Pober
Mary Roche
Bettina Rosay
King Ross
Lester Russon
Allen Sharp
Gwen Shirey
Cissy Smith
Adrian Storms
Bill Tabbert
Gordon Taylor
Temple Texas
William Utely
Martha Emma Watson
Sid Weiss
Teddy Wilson
Nan Wynn
Charles Franklin Beck
Helen Bennett
Jimmy Dutton
Nina Frenkin
Joe la Plante
Donald Rose
Frances Spelvin
10 of these 94 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 84 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, Philip Loeb
- Choreographer
- Jack Donohue
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
Producer Billy Rose spent a record-breaking $350,000 on the production and hired Stravinsky to compose a ballet, Salvador Dali to paint lobby art, and charged an unheard-of $24 top ticket price. Despite the extravagance, the show lost money.
‘Gabriel Ravel and the Martinetti Family: The Popularity of Pantomime in 1855’, in American Popular Entertainment: Papers and Proceedings of the Conference on the History of American Popular Entertainment, ed. Myron Matlaw (Westport, Connecticut, 1979), pp. 241–58.
Speaker not recorded. Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 520- In her early career, Worth appeared in a number of short-lived musicals (Very Warm for May, Higher and Higher, Bright Lights of 1944, Jackpot, and Seven Lively Arts), and was also closely associated with Mary Martin. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 184
- Porter’s next show was The Seven Lively Arts (12/7/44; 183 performances). The cast was superlative: Beatrice Lillie, Bert Lahr, Benny Goodman, Alicia Markova, and Dolores Gray headlined. The revue introduced one hit, “Ev’rytime We Say Goodbye,” one of Porter’s greatest ballads. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 439
- The Seven Lively Arts, 417, 586 Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 683
- After laying them in the aisles in Du Barry Was a Lady, he next returned to the musical stage in the revues Seven Lively Arts (costarring with another utterly brilliant, utterly unique clown, Bea Lillie) and Two on the Aisle, costarring (and feuding) with Dolores Gray. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 99
- While these shows contained the occasional gem (The Show Is On had “I Love You” and Seven Lively Arts boasted a fine score by Kurt Weill, including “All I Know”), in general, they were flops. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 178
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 Seven Lively Arts at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.