Great to Be Alive!, 1950

The run closed May 6, 1950

Opened

March 23, 1950

Closed

May 6, 1950

Performances

52

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Winter Garden Theatre

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 308th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it38 named

Valerie Bettis1919–1982

M

Mark Dawsonb. 1973

B

Bambi Linnb. 1926

V

Vivienne Segal

M

Martha Wright

L

Leigh Allen

J

Jeanne Bal

L

Lulu Bates

F

Fred Bryan

B

Barbara Heath

Jay Marshall1919–2005

R

Russell Nype1920–2018

E

Earl Oxford

P

Paul Reed

Janice Rule1931–2003

Swen Swenson1930–1993

Stuart Erwin
Chuck Brunner
Aleen Buchanan
Ken Carroll
Virginia Curtis
Eleanor Fairchild
Roscoe French
Ed Gombos
Eleanore Gregory
Ann Hutchinson
John Juliano
Norma Kaiser
Don Kennedy
Betty Low
J C Mccord
Ruth Mcvayne
Joyce Mitchell
David Nillo
Marjorie Peterson
Harry Lee Rogers
Robert Wallace
Julia Williams

16 of these 38 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Helen Tamiris

Producer

Vinton Freedley

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for Great to Be Alive! at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.