Shows · Louisiana Purchase · Imperial Theatre, 1940
Louisiana Purchase, 1940
Of the productions that opened in the 1940s, this had the 60th longest run.
Who was in it61 named
April Ames
Dorothy Barrett
Georgia Carroll
Don Cortez
Charlie Curran
Douglas Dean
Clark Eggleston
Althea Elder
John Eliot
Judith Ford
Mary Ganley
Grace Gillern
Dwight Godwin
Petra Gray
Dorothy Hall
Mary Hartwig
Harold Haskins
George Hunter
Dorothy Jeffers
Nancy Knott
Charles la Torre
Henry Lahee
Charles Laskey
Patricia Lee
James Leland
Edith Luce
Betty Luster
Harvey Mack
Ray Mayer
Jack Mcclendon
Virginia Morris
Nicodemus
Leona Olsen
John Panter
James Phillips
Nicolai Popov
Richard Reed
Jo Jean Rogers
Phyllis Rogers
Marion Rosamond
Rosemary Sankey
Jean Scott
Veva Selwood
Zynaid Spencer
Aleen Stewart
Anitra Upton
Helen Vincent
Kenneth Whelan
Doris York
Creative team
- Director
- Edgar MacGregor
- Choreographer
- George Balanchine
- Producer
- B. G. DeSylva (Irving Berlin uncredited)
Recordings
1 recording of Louisiana Purchase exist, but none was released while this run was on. See Louisiana Purchase for all of them.
Around this production
Louisiana Purchase is a musical with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and book by Morrie Ryskind based on a story by B. G. DeSylva. Set in New Orleans, the musical lightly satirises Louisiana Governor Huey Long and his control over Louisiana politics. An honest U.S. senator travels to Louisiana to investigate corruption in the Louisiana Purchase Company; the company's lawyer attempts to divert him via the attentions of two beautiful women, but the senator maintains his integrity and ends up marrying one of them. In 1941 it was adapted for the film Louisiana Purchase directed by Irving Cummings. The show opened at the Shubert Brothers' Imperial Theatre, New York City on May 28, 1940 and ran…
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