Shows · Billion Dollar Baby · Alvin Theatre, 1945
Billion Dollar Baby, 1945
Of the productions that opened in the 1940s, this had the 132nd longest run.
Who was in it60 named
Don de Leo
Emily Ross
Shirley van
Lucas Aco
Jeri Archer
Tony Caffaro
William David
Jacqueline Dodge
Robert Edwin
Althea Elder
Peggy Anne Ellis
Future Fulton
Lynne Gammon
Tony Gardell
Harry Gary
Alan Gilbert
Maria Harriton
Fred Hearne
Eddie Hodge
Doris Hollingsworth
Beverly Hosier
Ann Hutchinson
Douglas Jones
Philip la Torre
Joe Landis
Howard Lenters
Cecille Mann
Jim Mitchell
Ray Morrissey
Arthur Partington
Virginia Poe
Franklin Powell
Anthony Reed
Richard Sanford
Betty Saunders
Beth Shea
Bill Skipper
Thelma Stevens
Bill Sumner
David Thomas
Lorraine Todd
Allan Waine
Evelyn Ward
Sydney Wylie
Thomas Hume
Stuart Langley
Rosemary Schaefer
Creative team
- Director
- George Abbott
- Choreographer
- Jerome Robbins
- Orchestrations
- Morton Gould
Recordings
1 recording of Billion Dollar Baby exist, but none was released while this run was on. See Billion Dollar Baby for all of them.
Around this production
Billion Dollar Baby is a musical with the book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and the score by Morton Gould. Comden and Green were fresh from their success with On the Town, and the production team was something of an On the Town reunion: once again, George Abbott directed and Jerome Robbins choreographed. The musical is set on Staten Island and in Atlantic City during the late 1920s. It follows the adventures of an ambitious young woman, Maribelle Jones, in her quest for wealth during the Prohibition era.
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