- (1948 - 1951) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1948) Stage Play: Lend an Ear. Musical revue. Music by Charles Gaynor. Lyrics by Charles Gaynor. Book by Charles Gaynor. Additional sketches by Joseph Stein, Will Glickman. Additional arrangements by George Bauer. Musical Staging by Gower Champion. Scenic Design by Raoul Pene Du Bois. Directed by Hal Gerson. National Theatre (moved to The Broadhurst Theatre from 21 Feb 1949- 8 Oct 1949, then moved to The Shubert Theatre from 10 Oct 1949- 29 Oct 1949, then moved to The Mansfield Theatre from 31 Oct 1949- close): 16 Dec 1948- 21 Jan 1950 (460 performances). Cast: Yvonne Adair (as "The Secretary Who Sings, I'm Not in Love/Henry Jones' Mother, Friday Dancing Class/Ginger O'Toole, The Gladiola Girl/The Tourist, Santo Domingo/The Secretary Who Sings, I'm Not in Love/Ginger O'Toole, The Gladiola Girl/The Tourist, Santo Domingo/Miss Bridey, Friday Dancing Class/"Who Hit Me?" Singer") [Broadway debut], Anne Renee Anderson (as "The Patient, Neurotic You and Psychopathic Me/Singer/Girl, "The Gladiola Girl"/Mathilda, Words Without Song"), Dorothy Babb (as "The Girl in "Give Your Heart a Chance to Sing," Give Your Heart a Chance to Sing/Girl, "The Gladiola Girl"/Dancer/The Girl in "Give Your Heart a Chance to Sing," Give Your Heart a Chance to Sing/The Girl in "Friday Dancing Class"/"Molly O'Reilly" Dancer/Girl/"The Gladiola Girl"), Carol Channing (as "Wife, Power of the Press/Girl, "The Gladiola Girl"/Singer/Mrs. Playgoer, All the World's/The Countess, Words Without Song/Henry Jones' Mother, Friday Dancing Class/Wife, Power of the Press/"Three Little Queens of the Silver Screen," Singer/Girl, The Gladiola Girl"/Mrs. Playgoer, All the World's/The Countess, Words Without Song"), Al Checco, Peter Conlow, Robert Dixon, William Eythe, Nancy Franklin, Antoinette Guhlke, Hal Hackett, George Hall, Gloria Hamilton, Bob Herget, Beverly Hosie, Jenny Lou Law, Betty Low, Arthur Maxwell, Tommy Morton, Gene Nelson, Bob Scheerer, William Skipper, Jeanine Smith, Lee Stacy, Larry Stewart, Bill Woods. Produced by William R. Katzell, Franklin Gilbert, William Eythe.
- (1949) Stage Play: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Musical comedy. Book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos. Music by Jule Styne. Lyrics by Leo Robin. Adapted from the novel by Anita Loos. Dance arrangements by Trude Rittman. Musical Direction by Milton Rosenstock. Music arranged by Don Walker. Vocal direction and arrangements by Hugh Martin. Assistant to Miss de Mille: Dania Krupska. Choreography by Agnes de Mille. Directed by John C. Wilson. Ziegfeld Theatre: 8 Dec 1949- 15 Sep 1951 (740 performances). Cast: Yvonne Adair (as "Dorothy Shaw") [final Broadway role], Anita Alvarez (as "Gloria Stark"), Suzanne Ames (as "Dancer"), Cholly Atkins (as "Dance Team"), Charles Basile (as "Dancer"), Florence Baum (as "Dancer"), Peter Birch (as "Bill, a dancer"), Bill Bradley (as "Dancer"), Eric Brotherson (as "Henry Spofford"), Bob Burkhardt (as "Deck Steward/Singer"), Angela Castle (as "Singer"), Carol Channing (as "Lorelei Lee"), Joan Coburn (as "Singer"), Charles "Honi" Coles (as "Dance Team"), Rex Cooper (as "Dancer"), Robert Cooper (as "Frank, The Olympic Team/Dancer"), Jerry Craig (as "A Steward/Singer"), Crandall Diehl (as "Maitre d'Hotel/Dancer"), William Diehl (as "Policeman/Singer"), Pat Donohue (as "Sun Bather/Show Girl"), Anna Rita Duffy (as "Show Girl"), Rex Evans (as "Sir Francis Beekman"), Nicole France (as "A Flower Girl/Dancer"), Aristide J. Ginoulias (as "Dancer"), Pauline Goddard (as "Dancer"), Peter Holmes (as "Leon, a Valet/Dancer"), George S. Irving (as "Josephus Gage"), Patty Ann Jackson (as "Dancer"), Fran Keegan (as "Deck Walker/Show Girl"), Annette Kohl (as "Girl"), Kazimir Kokic (as "Taxi Driver/Headwaiter"), William Krach (as "The Tenor/Singer"), Alicia Krug (as "Dancer"), John Laverty (as "Dancer"), Shelton Lewis (as "Deck Steward/Singer"), Mort Marshall (as "Robert Lemanteur"), Mary Martinet (as "Dancer"), Jack McCauley (as "Gus Esmond") [final Broadway role], Ellen McCown (as "Singer"), Irving Mitchell (as "Mr. Esmond Sr."), Candy Montgomery (as "Singer"), Howard Morris (as "Louis Lemanteur"), Bob Neukum (as "Pierre, a Steward/Singer"), Alice Pearce (as "Mrs. Ella Spofford"), Caren Preiss (as "Dancer"), Reta Shaw(as "Lady Phyllis Beekman"), Judy Sinclair (as "Zizi/Singer"), Curt Stafford (as "An Olympic/Singer"), Junior Standish )as "Deck Walker/Show Girl"), Evelyn Taylor (as "Dancer"), Norma Thornton (as "Dancer"), Lucille Udovick (as "Singer"), David Vogel (as "Singer"), Polly Ward (as "Dancer"), Prue Ward (as "Dancer"), Beverly Jane Weston (as "Singer"), Eddie Weston (as "George, The Olympic Team/Dancer"), Marjorie Winters (as "Sun Bather/Show Girl"), Helen Wood (as "Dancer"), Hope Zee (as "Fifi/Singer"). Understudies: Bill Bradley (as "Taxi Driver"), Joan Coburn (as "Dorothy Shaw"), Crandall Diehl (as "Mr. Esmond Sr."), William Diehl (as "Robert Lemanteur"), George S. Irving (as "Henry Spofford"), Alicia Krug (as "Mrs. Ella Spofford"), Bibi Osterwald (as "Lorelei Lee"), Curt Stafford (as "Josephus Gage"), Evelyn Taylor (as "Gloria Stark"), Lucille Udovick (as "Lady Phyllis Beekman"), Eddie Weston (as "Louis Lemanteur"). Replacement actors: Shirl Conway (as "Dorothy Shaw") [circa 1951- ?], Beth Douglas (as "Singer"), Jay Harnick (as "Deck Steward/Singer"). Produced by Herman Levin and Oliver Smith. Note: Filmed as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953).
- (Summer 1952) She acted in Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and George Abbott's musical, "On Your Toes," in a Kenley Players production in York, Pennsylvania with Katherine Sergava and Bill Callahan in the cast. John Kenley was artistic director.
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