The run closed July 6, 1946
- Opened
- March 30, 1946
- Closed
- July 6, 1946
- Performances
- 113
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 215th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it48 named
Theodore Allen
Olive Ball
Smalls Boykin
J Mardo Brown
Yvonne Coleman
Norman Dejoie
John Diggs
Joseph Eady
Leon Edwards
Rita Garrett
Dorothea Green
Frank Green
Gwendolyn Hale
Theodore Hines
Rosalie King
Jerry Laws
Arthur Lawson
Carrington Lewis
Betty Nichols
Richard Pope
Robert Pope
Lonny Reed
Marguerite Roan
Maude Russell
Louis Sharp
Zelda Shelton
Arthur Smith
Elwood Smith
Merritt Smith
George Thomas
Creighton Thompson
Charles Welch
Enid Williams
Milton J Williams
Lori Wilson
Milton Wood
12 of these 48 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 36 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
- Rouben Mamoulian
- Choreographer
- Charles Walters
- Producer
- Edward Gross
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
- He composed wonderful songs for the shows Bloomer Girl, St. Louis Woman, House of Flowers, Jamaica, and Saratoga, including the standards “Right as the Rain,” “A Sleepin’ Bee,” “Any Place | Hang My Hat Is Home,” and “Come Rain or Come Shine.” Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 41
- After supporting roles in St. Louis Woman and Street Scene, she broke through as the unflaggingly business-like Bloody Mary in South Pacific, winning a Tony Award and becoming a star introducing the songs “Bali Hai” and “Happy Talk.” Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 308
- of rich Harold Arlen songs for Bloomer Girl and St. Louis Woman; of Irving Berlin’s abundant score for Annie Get Your Gun. Encyclopedia of Theatre Music A Comprehensive Listing of Lewine Richard Simon Al, p. 30
- Pearl Bailey—who had stolen the show in ST. LOUIS WOMAN [March 30, 1946}—winning most of the backstage bouts. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 295
- ST. LOUIS WOMAN suffered from a lumbering book and a lack of focus, but it did possess a fine score. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 183
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 St. Louis Woman at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.