Silk Stockings

Imperial Theatre, (2/24/1955 - 4/14/1956)

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Opening Date:	Feb 24, 1955
Closing Date:	Apr 14, 1956	Total Performances:	478

Category: Musical, Comedy, Original, Broadway

Setting: Paris and Moscow. The present.

Opening Night Credits
Songs

Production Staff [See More]
Theatre Owned / Operated by Select Operating Corporation
Produced by Feuer & Martin; Associate Producer: Monty Shaff and Arthur Lewis
Music by Cole Porter; Lyrics by Cole Porter; Book by George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath and Abe Burrows; Suggested by "Ninotchka" by Melchior Lengyel; Musical Director: Herbert Greene; Vocal arrangements by Herbert Greene; Music orchestrated by Don Walker; Dance arrangements by Tommy Goodman
Directed by Cy Feuer; Musical Staging by Eugene Loring; Uncredited show doctoring by Jerome Robbins
Scenic Design by Jo Mielziner; Lighting Design by Jo Mielziner; Costume Design by Lucinda Ballard; Additional Costumes by Robert Mackintosh; Hair Design by Ronald De Mann
Company Manager: Joseph Harris
Production Stage Manager: Henri Caubisens; Stage Manager: Terence Little and Lawrence Kasha
Musician: Maurice Kogan, Leon Merian and Mervin Gold; Music Contractor: Henry Topper; Music Preparation: Mathilde Pincus
General Press Representative: Karl Bernstein; Press Representative: Harvey B. Sabinson; Dance Supervisor: Merritt Thompson; Casting: Ira Bernstein

Cast

Don Ameche	Steve Canfield
Hildegarde Neff	Ninotchka
George Tobias	Commissar Markovitch
Gretchen Wyler	Janice Dayton
Martin Allen	Dancer
Tommy Andrew	Dancer
Estelle Aza	Dancer
Lee Barry	Guard
	Assistant Director
Edward Becker	First Commissar
	Reporter
	Guard
Leon Belasco	Brankov
Paul Best	M. Fabour
	Movie Director
Barbara Bostock	Dancer
Verna Cain	Dancer
Kenneth Chertok	Choreographer
Ludi Claire	Saleslady
Geraldine Delaney	Flower Girl
	Dancer
George Foster	Dancer
Tony Gardell	Reporter
	Minister
Forrest Green	Chief Commissar
	Grisha
Marcel Hillaire	Pierre Bouchard
Bruce Hoy	Dancer
Dick Humphrey	Guard
Walter Kelvin	Hotel Doorman
	President of Politburo
Devra Kline	Sonia
	Dancer
Henry Lascoe	Ivanov
Win Mayo	French Comrade
Pat McBride	Dancer
Alexandra Moss	Anna
Julie Newmar	Vera
David Opatoshu	Bibinski
Louis Polacek	Bookstall Man
John Ray	Dancer
Carol Risser	Dancer
Arthur Rubin	Reporter
Stanley Simmonds	Hotel Manager
Philip Sterling	Peter Ilyitch Boroff
Carol Stevens	Dancer
Arthur Ulisse	French Comrade
Onna White	Dancer

Understudies: Verna Cain (Anna), Forrest Green (Commissar Markovitch, Ivanov), Devra Kline (Vera), Pat McBride (Saleslady, Sonia) and Stanley Simmonds (Bibinski, Peter Ilyitch Boroff)

music by Cole Porter; lyrics by Cole Porter

ACT 1	Sung By
Too Bad	Ivanov, Brankov, Bibinski and Hotel Staff
Paris Loves Lovers	Canfield and Ninotchka
Stereophonic Sound	Janice Dayton
It's a Chemical Reaction, That's All	Ninotchka
All of You	Canfield
Satin and Silk	Janice Dayton
Without Love	Ninotchka
All of You (Reprise)	Canfield
ACT 2	Sung By
Hail, Bibinski	Ivanov, Brankov, Bibinski and French Comrades
As On Through the Seasons We Sail	Canfield and Ninotchka
Josephine	Janice Dayton and Chorus
Siberia	Ivanov, Brankov and Bibinski
Silk Stockings	Canfield
The Red Blues	The Russians
Finale	Entire Company