The redheads
Gwen Verdon danced Redhead in 1959 and was one. Almost nobody else here started out that way. Lucille Ball was a brunette until MGM got hold of her, and Carol Burnett went red because George Abbott thought the princess in Once Upon a Mattress needed brightening — so Broadway did not so much cast redheads as manufacture them. Hand-built and sourced, one citation per head, because no biography in the catalogue mentions hair.
12 in the catalogue.
| Bernadette Peters | 1948 | 19 productions |
| Kenneth Tobey | 1917–2002 | 12 productions |
| Gwen Verdon | 1925–2000 | 9 productions |
| Clive Revill | 1930–2025 | 7 productions |
| Van Johnson | 1916–2008 | 7 productions |
| Danny Kaye | 1911–1987 | 6 productions |
| Patricia Marand | 1934–2008 | 6 productions |
| Carol Burnett | 1933 | 4 productions |
| Jesse Tyler Ferguson | 1975 | 4 productions |
| Red Buttons | 4 productions | |
| Bonnie Franklin | 1944–2013 | 1 productions |
| Lucille Ball | 1 productions |