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Shows · On Your Toes · Imperial Theatre, 1936

On Your Toes, 1936

Opened April 11, 1936

Closed December 4, 1954

315 performances

Imperial Theatre

Original

Broadway

Of the productions that opened in the 1930s, this had the 44th longest run.

Other stagings of On Your Toes 3 more

1937
Palace TheatreBroadway
1954
46th Street TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by George Balanchine
64 performances
1983
Virginia TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by George Balanchine
505 performances

Who was in it58 named

William Baker
Libby Bennett
May Block
Edward Brinkman
William Broder
Jill Christie
Fred Danieli
Nick Dennis
Dorothy Denton
Henry Dick
Enes Earley
Eleanor Fiata
Marjorie Fisher
Robert H Forsythe
Gloria Franklin
Basil Galahoff
Dorothy Hall
Ethel Hampton
Harold Haskin
Harold Haskins
Dave Jones
Grace Kaye
Tyrone Kearney
Joan Keena
Isabelle Kimpal
Betty Lee
Bob Long
Gertrude Magee
Russ Milton
Marie Monnig
Frances Nevins
Mae Noble
Harry Peterson
Jack Quinn
Carole Renwick
Patsy Schenck
Ursula Seiler
Betty Jane Smith
Guy Stanion
Drucilla Strain
Valery Streshnev
Dorothy Thomas
Beau Tilden
William Wadsworth
Davenie Watson
Amy Weber
Alma Wertley
George Young

Creative team

Choreographer
George Balanchine
Producer
Dwight Deere Wiman
Orchestrations
Hans Spialek 2

Recordings

3 recordings of On Your Toes exist, but none were released while this run was on. See On Your Toes for all of them.

Around this production

Balanchine\'s "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" is considered the first modern story ballet created for a Broadway show, predating Agnes de Mille\'s Oklahoma! dream ballet by seven years.

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