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Virginia "An American Musical Romance"

Center Theatre, (9/02/1937 - 10/23/1937)

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Opening Date:	Sep 02, 1937
Closing Date:	Oct 23, 1937	Total Performances:	60

Category: Musical, Romance, Original, Broadway

Setting: Virginia. 1775.

Opening Night Credits
Songs

Production Staff
Theatre Owned by The Rockefellers
Produced by The Center Theatre (John Kenneth Hyatt, Managing Director)
Book by Laurence Stallings and Owen Davis; Music by Arthur Schwartz; Lyrics by Albert Stillman; Music orchestrated by Ardon Cornwell, Hans Spialek, Phil Wall, Will Vodery and Maurice Baron; Vocal arrangements by Lee Montgomery and Ken Christie
Staged by Leon Leonidoff; Book directed by Edward Clarke Lilley; Choreographed by Florence Rogge
Scenic Design by Lee Simonson; Costume Design by Irene Sharaff
General Manager: Louis A. Lotito
Stage Manager: Paul Porter; Assistant Stage Mgr: Burton McEvilly, William Torpey and Richard Whale; Technical Director: Frank Hall
Musical Supervisor: Don Voorhees
Press Representative: Willard Keefe; Press Associate: Lorella Val-Mery; Assistant to Mr. Leonidoff: Nicholas Daks and Alfred Stern

Cast

Martha Adamson	Ensemble
Ajax	Fire-Eater Player of the Street Fair
James Allison	Ensemble
Nelson Ames	Ensemble
Viola Anderson	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
Avis Andrews	Miranda
Elizabeth Andrews	Ensemble
Gene Archer	Ensemble
Bruce Barclay	Ensemble
Milton Barnette	Corps du Ballet member
Mona Barrie	Lady Agatha
John Barry	Ensemble
George Beach	Ensemble
Clarence Beasley	Slave Child
Bertha Belmore	Minnie Fortesque
Max Benson	Ensemble
Margaret Benton	Ensemble
Alice Berwald	Ensemble
Anne Booth	Sylvia Laurence
Geraldine Bork	Ensemble
Patricia Bowman	Prima Ballerina of Drury Lane
Virginia Browning	Corps du Ballet member
Nigel Bruce	His Excellency, Governor of the Colony
John W. Bubbles	Scipio
Ford L. Buck	Hannibal
Boris Butleroff	Corps du Ballet member
Jack Carr	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
Helen Carroll	Daphne
	Ensemble
Tania Clell	Corps du Ballet member
G. Congreve	Ensemble
Don Cortez	Ensemble
Henry Davis	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
John Diggs	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
Mable Downs	Ensemble
Janice Dremann	Ensemble
Laura Duncan	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
Ranolds Dupler	Ensemble
John Eldon	Ensemble
Maurice Ellis	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
Sally Ellis	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
Esta Elman	Phyllis
	Ensemble
James Evans & Co.	Juggler Player of the Street Fair
Gordon Felts	Ensemble
Doris Fischer	Child of the Gentry
Leon Fokine	Corps du Ballet member
Marie Fox	Ensemble
Ed. Galloway	Ensemble
Herbert Garstin	Town Crier
Margo Gavin	Ensemble
Ray Giles	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
Herbert Goff	Ensemble
Ronald Graham	Colonel Richard Fairfax of the Virginia Rangers
Gail Grant	Corps du Ballet member
Marie Grimaldi	Corps du Ballet member
Val Gueral	Corps du Ballet member
Katie Hall	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
Lansing Hatfield	Captain Boyd of the Virginia Rangers
Gladys Haverty	Ensemble
Hermoine Hawkins	Corps du Ballet member
Lola Hayes	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
Margaret Hayness	Corps du Ballet member
Dennis Hoey	Sir Guy Carleton
Bruce Howard	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
Louisa Howard	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
Mabel Howard	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
Polly Iuen	Corps du Ballet member
Lo Iven	Corps du Ballet member
Norman Jackson	Ensemble
Eleanor James	Corps du Ballet member
Charlotte Junius	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
Nora Kaye	Corps du Ballet member
George Kiddon	Corps du Ballet member
Karl Kohrs	Ensemble
Leona Krauss	Ensemble
Robert Landine	Ensemble
Anna Lazarevich	Corps du Ballet member
Bubblesette Leacock	Slave Child
Linn Ledford	Ensemble
James Lillard	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
Gene Lockhart	Fortesque of Drury Lane
Thalia Mara	Corps du Ballet member
Anthony Marvin	Ensemble
Joseph Meyer	Ensemble
Margaret Miller	Corps du Ballet member
Doris Moore	Ensemble
Charlotte Mount	Corps du Ballet member
Mae Muth	Ensemble
Fyodor Nazinoff	Corps du Ballet member
Doris Newcomb	Corps du Ballet member
Eunice Northup	Ensemble
Martha Pacina	Corps du Ballet member
Muriel Pack	Corps du Ballet member
George Prentice	Puppet Master Player of the Street Fair
David Preston	Corps du Ballet member
Marion Raber	Ensemble
Robert Raines	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
John Ravold	A Patriot
Billy Redfield	Child of the Gentry
Gordon Richards	Captain Somerset A.D.C. to the Governor
Bruce Rogers	Ensemble
Margaret Rogers	Corps du Ballet member
Peggy Romano	Child of the Gentry
Rosa Rubenstein	Ensemble
Nina Sabatini	Corps du Ballet member
Joseph Scandur	Ensemble
Tom Scott	Ensemble
Winton Sears	Ensemble
Zelda Shelton	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
Morrie Siegel	Ensemble
Maude Simmons	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
Gus Simons	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
Ed Smith	Ensemble
Irene Soussanin	Corps du Ballet member
Sylvia Stone	Ensemble
Tatyanna	Ensemble
Harold Taub	Corps du Ballet member
Tom Tempest	Major-Domo
	Stage Doorman
Charles Timpson	Slave Child
Adrienne Toner	Corps du Ballet member
Valia Valentinoff	Premier Dancer of Drury Lane
Gladys Vincent	Ensemble
Grace Walsh	Corps du Ballet member
Howard Warriner	Ensemble
Charles Welch	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
Alma Wertley	Corps du Ballet member
Lewis White	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
W. W. Whitfield	Will Vodery's Negro Choir member
Katherine Wilson	Corps du Ballet member
David Worth	Corps du Ballet member
Irene Zambelli	Corps du Ballet member

music by Arthur Schwartz; lyrics by Albert Stillman
(Unless otherwise noted)

ACT 1	Sung By
Virginia	Captain Boyd and Ensemble
We Had to Rehearse	Ensemble
An Old Flame Never Dies (lyrics by Laurence Stallings and Albert Stillman)	Sylvia Laurence and Ensemble
Send One Angel Down	Miranda and Choir
We Had to Rehearse (Reprise)	Ensemble
My Bridal Gown (lyrics by Laurence Stallings and Albert Stillman)	Sylvia Laurence
Good and Lucky	Scipio, Miranda and Hannibal
It's Our Duty to the King	His Excellency, Governor of the Colony and Ensemble
If You Were Someone Else	Colonel Richard Fairfax and Ensemble
Goodbye Jonah	Scipio and Choir
An Old Flame Never Dies (Reprise) (lyrics by Laurence Stallings and Albert Stillman)	Colonel Richard Fairfax, Sylvia Laurence and Lady Agatha
My Heart Is Dancing	Sylvia Laurence, Prima Ballerina of Drury Lane and Ensemble
ACT 2	Sung By
Meet Me at the Fair	Ensemble
If You Were Someone Else (Reprise)	Colonel Richard Fairfax and Sylvia Laurence
Why Must I Play the Lady?	Lady Agatha and Girls
You and I Know (lyrics by Laurence Stallings and Albert Stillman)	Sylvia Laurence and Colonel Richard Fairfax
Fee-Fie-Fo-Fum	Girls
I'll Be Sittin' in De Lap o' De Lord	Miranda, Scipio, Hannibal and Choir
You and I Know (Reprise) (lyrics by Laurence Stallings and Albert Stillman)	Colonel Richard Fairfax and Sylvia Laurence
Virginia (Reprise)	Entire Company