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Dancing In The Streets
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March 12, 1943 |
| Mary Martin's first starring role in a Broadway play, that never made it to Broadway. The play closed in Boston. |
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Apology
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March 18, 1943 |
| Produced and Directed by Lee Strasberg, the play ran for only 8 performances and tells the story of a man who chooses not to marry his childhood sweetheart, instead marrying another woman. |
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Three's A Family
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April 22, 1943 |
| Written by the husband and wife team of Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron, the parents of Nora Ephron. A three act farce about an extended family crammed into a small Manhattan Upper West Side apartment. The play ran for 497 performances, well into the next season. |
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First Million
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April 26, 1943 |
| An Ozark hick family of bank robbers resolves to save every penny until they accumulate their first million, only to be thwarted by the honesty of their own turncoat son. The play was a flop and ran for only 5 performances. |
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Sons o' Fun
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May 1, 1943 |
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Early To Bed
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May 6, 1943 |
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Early To Bed
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May 22, 1943 |
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The Student Prince
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June 10, 1943 |
| An operetta revival with music by Sigmund Romberg and directed by Jacob J. Shubert, featuring perennial Shubert favorite Everett Marshall as Dr. Engel, Frank Hornaday as Prince Karl Franz, and Barbara Scully as Kathie. The show was toured endlessly in revivals by the Shuberts, who considered it a guaranteed moneymaker. A young Prince falls in love with a barmaid whilst studying at Heidelberg with his tutor, Dr. Engel. |
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Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus)
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July 6, 1943 |
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Chauve-Souris
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July 20, 1943 |
| A Russian musical revue that was a sensation on Broadway in several incarnations throughout the 1920's as staged by it's master of ceremonies, Nikita Balieff. This short lived revival was mounted by arrangement with his widow. The show featured colorful Russian costumes, settings, dance, acrobatics, and song and was a wonderful spectacle. The performance featured Dania Krupska, who later became an assistant to Agnes de Mille and an accomplished choreographer. |
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Tomorrow the World/Elissa Landi
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August 30, 1943 |
| A major hit drama about a well-meaning typical American family that adopts a Nazi youth who attempts to indoctrinate them toward his warped values. The play made stars of Skippy Homeier as the 12 year old Nazi youth and Joyce Van Patten as young American daughter Patricia Frame. Written by James Gow and Arnaud D'Usseau. |
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A New Life
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September 13, 1943 |
| Produced by The Playwrights' Company and written and staged by Elmer Rice. Nightclub singer Edith Charles (Betty Field) marries Captain Robert Cleghorne (George Lambert), scion to a wealthy Arizona family, after a short and wild romance. After Captain Cleghorne disappears at sea, Edith gives birth to his son at the exact moment of the Captain's unexpected return. A battle ensues between Edith and The Captain's family when they seek to remove the son back to Arizona for a privilaged upbringing, ultimately failing. The play was roundly panned by critics and went on to 70 performances. |
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Kiss And Tell
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September 16, 1943 |
| A comedy staged and produced by George Abbott, and starring Jessie Royce Landis and Robert Keith as the parents of teenager Corliss Archer (Joan Caulfield). It also marked the Broadway premiere of Richard Widmark as Lieutenant Lenny Archer. The show was a situation comedy staged around the friends, neighbors, and love interests of Corliss Archer, and was a big success at 956 performances. |
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Othello
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September 18, 1943 |
| Margaret Webster and the Theatre Guild's presentation of Othello, starring Paul Robeson in the title role, Uta Hagen as Desdemona, and Jose Ferrar as Iago, in what would become Broadway's longest running staging of the Shakespearean classic at 296 performances. It was a particularly unusual performance in that the role of the Moor, Othello, was played by an African-American on a Broadway stage. It received rave reviews, lauding Robeson, Ferrar, and Hagen equally. |
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One Touch of Venus
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September 22, 1943 |
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Winged Victory
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October 8, 1943 |
| A poignant play by Moss Hart with an enormous cast of armed forces men, and uniquely, women. The show was written by order of General Arnold of the U.S. Army, with all proceeds benefiting the Army Relief Fund of 1943. It told the story of the growth of the Air Force, following six soldiers from civilian life to battlefield flight. Hart traveled 28,000 miles with Air Force men to research the project. It later became a 20th Century Fox film, retaining most of the original cast members. |
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Get Away Old Man
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November 23, 1943 |
| A comedy written by William Saroyan, produced and directed by George Abbott. Starring Richard Widmark as the self-aggrandizing writer Henry Bird, who is hired by a Hollywood producer (Ed Begley) to create a script for a film about "all mothers everywhere." Saroyan wrote the show upon his return from Hollywood, where he wrote "The Human Comedy." |
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Storm Operation
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November 24, 1943 |
| A Maxwell Anderson play produced the The Playwrights' Company. Anderson spent significant time on the North African front with General Eisenhower researching for the work, which was ultimately panned by critics and ran only 23 performances. Oddly, the play was selected by the Burns Mantle annual as one of the season's 10 best plays. |
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