The run closed November 25, 1950
- Opened
- April 27, 1950
- Closed
- November 25, 1950
- Performances
- 245
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Coronet Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 121st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
This is a New York theatre, and the address on this record is right. Its architect, capacity, history and coordinates were taken from a different theatre of the same name in London, so we are not showing them. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.
Who was in it17 named
Patricia Bright
Dorothy Jarnac
Bill Norvas
Roger Price
The Upstarts
Tommy Wonder
Dee Arlen
Phyllis Cameron
Ronnie Edwards
Midge Parker
Stuart Wade
6 of these 17 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 11 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
- Mervyn Nelson
- Choreographer
- Joan Mann
- Producer
- Arthur Klein
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
The husband-and-wife comedy team of Grace and Paul Hartman anchored the revue with their signature style of physical comedy.
Right. PLAYBILL cover for Paul and Grace Hartman's hit revue, Tickets, Please! ( 1950). At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 227
- Unlike Small Wonder (1948), Along Fifth Avenue (1949), Touch and Go (1949), and Alive and Kicking before it, and Tickets, Please! (1950), Michael Todd’s Peep Show (1950), and Pardon Our French (1951) after it, Dance Me a Song , the shortest-running revue of the lot, included three ballads that later enjoyed a certain a… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 21
- Tickets, Please! was a major stepping-stone in Frank Albertson’s career. He had appeared in a number of shows, including the flop musicals Allah Be Praised! (1944) and A Lady Says “Yes” (1945), and after Tickets, Please! was seen in Top Banana (1951). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 54
- Despite its large cast and lavish production values (and a huge initial investment of $230,000), Bless You All was yet another in the parade of the era’s luckless revues, and like Alive and Kicking , Dance Me a Song , Tickets, Please! , Michael Todd’s Peep Show , and Pardon Our French , it soon disappeared. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 105
- Tickets, Please! kidded politics (“A Senate Investigation”), television (“Television’s Tough on Love”), and cubist art (“Washington Square”). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 107
- The Hartmans' formula paid off for 245 performances. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 226
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 Tickets, Please! at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.