The run closed February 16, 1946
- Opened
- January 8, 1946
- Closed
- February 16, 1946
- Performances
- 45
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- City Center
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 353rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Desert Song 2 more that season
| 1926 | Casino Theatre Original · Arthur Hurley | 471 perf. |
| 1973 | Uris Theatre Revival · Henry Butler | 15 perf. |
Who was in it58 named
Barbara Bailey
Jean Bartel
Joan Bishop
Lillian Bloch
William Bowers
George Burnson
Fred Butterworth
Jean Caples
Natalie Carr
Walter Cassel
Richard Charles
Warren Christian
Clarissa
Wilton Clary
Joseph Claudio
Arthur Couture
Rita Currier
Beth Alba Cushing
Louis Demagnus
John Donaty
Barbara Downie
Georgine Dwyer
Dean Etmund
Charles Fries
Keith Gingles
Jack Goode
Sterling Hall
Florette Hillier
Richard Hughes
Lynn Hunt
Rosemary Leisen
Doris Luff
Joseph Malpasuto
Allan Mars
Lester Matthews
Suzette Meredith
Sherry O Neil
Betina Orth
Tamara Page
Thayer Roberts
Antonio Rovano
Paul Ruth
Russell Sanders
W Vernon Sanders
Dorothy Sandlin
Harvey Sauber
Jack Saunders
Dorothy Jean Sheppard
Betty Slabe
Margaret Smitherum
Walter Swanson
Maria Taweel
Helen Vey
June Walks
Edward Wellman
Stanley Wolfe
Iris Whitney
1 of these 58 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 57 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
- Sterling Halloway
- Choreographer
- Sterling Halloway
- Producer
- Russell Lewis
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.
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 The Desert Song at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.