Imperial Theatre, (10/12/1950 - 5/3/1952)

Category: Musical, Comedy, Original, Broadway
Setting: The play is laid in two mythical countries. One is called Lichtenburg. The other is the United States.

Comments: This play was suggested by the 1949 appointment of Washington hostess Perle Mesta as Ambassadress to Luxembourg; however, the program announced "neither the character of Mrs. Sally Adams nor Miss Ethel Merman resemble any person living or dead."

Opening Night Production Credits 

Theatre Owned / Operated by Select Operating Corporation and The Shubert Organization

Produced by Leland Hayward

Music by Irving Berlin; Lyrics by Irving Berlin; Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse; Musical Director: Jay Blackton; Music orchestrated by Don Walker; Dance arrangements by Genevieve Pitot and Jesse Meeker; Additional orchestrations by Joe Glover; Vocal arrangements by Jay Blackton; Piano Arrangements by Helmy Kresa

Directed by George Abbott; Dances and Musical Numbers Stage by Jerome Robbins

Scenic Design by Raoul Pène Du Bois; Costume Design by Raoul Pène Du Bois; Miss Merman's dresses by Mainbocher; Assistant to Mr. Du Bois: Willa Kim, Mason Arvold and Waldo Angelo

General Manager: Herman Bernstein; Company Manager: Carl Fisher

Production Stage Manager: Robert Griffith; Stage Manager: Don Hershey; Assistant Stage Mgr: Fred Hearn, Stowe Phelps and Harold Prince

Music Contractor: Sol Gusikoff

Press Representative: Leo Freedman, Abner D. Klipstein and Robert Ullman; Advertising: Blaine-Thompson and Fred Golden; Asst. to the Choreographer: June Graham and Donald Saddler; Master Carpenter: Pete Feller

Ethel Merman	Mrs. Sally Adams
Paul Lukas	Cosmo Constantine
Rae Abruzzo	Singer
Jeanne Bal	Secretary to Mrs. Adams
	Singer
Aristide Bartis	Singer
Muriel Bentley	Principal Dancer
Ralph Chambers	Senator Gallagher
Owen Coll	Supreme Court Justice
	Grand Duke Otto
William David	Henry Gibson
	Court Chamberlain
Trudy Deluz	Singer
Ollie Engebretson	"Potato Bug"
Shellie Farrell	Dancer
Richard Fjellman	"Potato Bug"
Lydia Fredericks	Singer
Nina Frenkin	Dancer
Nathaniel Frey	Singer
Estelle Gardner	Singer
William Hail	Butler
	Singer
Patricia Hammerlee	Dancer
Pat Harrington	Congressman Wilkins
Fred Hearn	Dancer
Barbara Heath	Dancer
Alan Hewitt	Pemberton Maxwell
Norma Kaiser	Dancer
	Principal Dancer
Allan Knolls	Dancer
E. A. Krumschmidt	Hugo Tantinnin
Henry Lascoe	Sebastian Sebastian
Kenneth Le Roy	Dancer
Virginia Le Roy	Dancer
Ralph Linn	Dancer
Albert Linville	Singer
Geoffrey Lumb	The Secretary of State
Ruth McVayne	Singer
Douglas Moppert	Dancer
Russell Nype	Kenneth Gibson
Lily Paget	A Maid
	Singer
Arthur Partington	Principal Dancer
Noella Peloquin	Singer
Robert Penn	Singer
Stowe Phelps	Clerk
Tommy Rall	Principal Dancer
Tom Reider	Singer
John Sheehan	Singer
Stanley Simmonds	Singer
Lilia Skala	Grand Duchess Sophie
Ray Stephens	Singer
Galina Talva	Princess Maria
Bobby Tucker	Dancer
Kirsten Valbor	Dancer
Jay Velie	Senator Brockbank
William Weslow	Dancer
Helene Whitney	Singer

Standby: Elaine Stritch (Mrs. Sally Adams).

Understudies: Rae Abruzzo (A Maid, Grand Duchess Sophie), Jeanne Bal (Princess Maria), Lydia Fredericks (Mrs. Sally Adams), Nathaniel Frey (Congressman Wilkins, Hugo Tantinnin), William Hail (Senator Gallagher), Fred Hearn (Senator Brockbank), Albert Linville (Grand Duke Otto, The Secretary of State), Ruth McVayne (Secretary to Mrs. Adams), Robert Penn (Court Chamberlain, Henry Gibson), Stowe Phelps (Kenneth Gibson), Tom Reider (Cosmo Constantine), Stanley Simmonds (Sebastian Sebastian), Ray Stephens (Pemberton Maxwell).