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Shows · Ankles Aweigh · Mark Hellinger Theatre, 1955

Ankles Aweigh, 1955

Opened April 18, 1955

Closed September 17, 1955

176 performances

Mark Hellinger Theatre

Original

Broadway

Of the productions that opened in the 1950s, this had the 154th longest run.

Who was in it60 named

Don Emmons
Patty Fitzsimmons
Betty George
Don Graham
Skeet Guenther
Will Hussung
Mike Kellin
Warren Kemmerling
Michael King
Marilyn Marsh
Virginia Martin
Ray Mason
Ellen McCown
Meri Miller
Marianne Olsen
Janet Pavek
Jack Purcell
Jack Rains
Marsha Rivers
Karen Shepard
John Smolko
Nina Starkey
Gloria Stevens
Hobe Streiford
Jack Timmers
Nancy Walters
Patricia White
Ethel Winter
Juan Anduze
Edward Begley
Vivian Dandridge
Dorothy Dunau
Rosemary Gaines
Betty Graber
Doris Hagler
Edmund Hall
Larry Howard
Sue Ane Langdon
Sheldon Ossosky
Rene Ray
Georgia Reed
Parker Wilson

Creative team

Choreographer
Tony Charmoli
Producer
Anthony B. Farrell

Recordings

1 recording of Ankles Aweigh exist, but none was released while this run was on. See Ankles Aweigh for all of them.

Around this production

On the morning of April 19, 1955, Walter Kerr was provoked to begin his review of the earliest of these four, Ankles Aweigh (Mark Hellinger; Apr. 18, ’55; 176), by stating... Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 40

Above, Betty and Jane Kean at sea in the immortal Ankles Aweigh.

Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 43

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