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New Faces, 1934

Opened March 15, 1934

149 performances

Fulton Theatre

Original

Broadway

Of the productions that opened in the 1930s, this had the 177th longest run.

Who was in it8 named

Creative team

Director
Leonard Sillman
Choreographer
Leonard Sillman
Producer
Charles Dillingham (Leonard Sillman uncredited)

Around this production

The film is available on DVD as New Faces (Critics’ Choice CCD 1028, 2004).

Maggie Smith made her Broadway debut at the Barrymore in June 1956 as one of Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1956. But it was female impersonator T.C. Jones who drew raves for his embodiments ofTallulah Bankhead, Bette Davis, and other stars, and who kept the revue running for 220 performances. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 303

The current edition of New Faces spoofed Menotti in Ronny Graham’s “The Great American Opera”; the composer was also kidded in the 1955 Off-Broadway revue Once Over Lightly with “Melvin” (“A Nine-Minute Menotti”) (words by Marshall Barer and music by Dean Fuller;

Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 264

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