The run closed September 26, 1942
- Opened
- July 4, 1942
- Closed
- September 26, 1942
- Performances
- 113
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadway 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 it58 named
Pvt Juss Addiss
Alan Anderson
Arthur Atkins
Pvt Leonard Berchman
Eugene Leander Berg
Dick Bernie
Pvt Howard Brooks
Marion Brown
Peter J Burns
Joe Bush
Pvt Samuel Carr
Pvt Stewart Churchill
Joe Cook Jr
Pvt Belmonte Cristiani
Cpl James A Cross
Pvt Louis de Milhau
Ross Elliott
Derek Fairman
Pvt Ray Goss
Hank Henry
William Home
Richard Irving
Fred Kelly
Harold J Kennedy
Pvt Robert Kinne
Pvt Ralph Margelssen
Sgt John Mendes
Pvt Gary Merrill
Pvt Pinkie Mitchell
John Murphy
Peter O Neill
Pvt Jules Oshins
Tileston Perry
Pvt William Pillich
Richard Reeves
Jack Riano
Hayden Rorke
Pfc Anthony Ross
Louis Salmon
Robert Shanley
Sgt Arthur Steiner
The Allon Trio
Norman van Emburgh
Pvt Claude Watson
Pvt Larry Weeks
Pvt William Wykoff
12 of these 58 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 46 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
- Ezra Stone
- Choreographer
- Robert Sidney, Nelson Barclift
- Producer
- Uncle Sam
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
A great theatrical event occurred at the Broadway on July 4, 1942. America was at war, and Irving Berlin, who had written a lame World War I soldier show called Yip, Yip, Yaphank, came up with another. It was This Is the Army, and its opening night at the Broadway was one of the greatest in the history of the theatre. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 208
- This Is the Army played a limited 12-week engagement in New York, was filmed in 1943 with Ronald Reagan, then toured overseas until October 1945. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 119
- With its theme dealing with servicemen readjusting to civilian life, Call Me Mister was something of a follow-up to This Is the Army. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 129
- Barclift, Nelson This Is the Army Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 387
- During World War II, Berlin wrote and appeared in another all-soldier show, This Is the Army (7/4/42; 113 performances). Berlin reprised his rendition of “Oh, How I Hate to Get up in the Morning” and appeared in the subsequent movie version. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 89
- The first musical to originate at the theater under the new policy was IRVING BERLIN’S This Is the Army, which opened, significantly, on July 4, 1942 (113 performances). This Is the Army starred armed-services members Burl Ives, Gary Merrill, Ezra Stone, and Philip Truex. Composer Irving Berlin also starred, and he rep… Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 108
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 This Is the Army at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.