Shows · Something for the Boys · Alvin Theatre, 1943
Something for the Boys, 1943
Of the productions that opened in the 1940s, this had the 68th longest run.
Who was in it97 named
Jimmy Allison
Alice Anthony
The Barnes Twins
Joseph Bell
May Block
William Callahan
Stanley Catron
Madeleine Clive
Jean Coyne
Bob Davis
Betty Deane
Patricia Deering
Benny Desio
Alan Fleming
Jerry Florio
Albert Gaeta
Aaron Gobetz
Ruth Godfrey
Dolores Goodman
Jack Hartley
Richard Harvey
Betty Heather
Buddy Irving
Margie Jackson
Jeanne Jones
Art Lambert
Stuart Langley
Bruce Lord
William Lynn
David Mann
Paul Mario
Remi Martell
Paul Martin
John Mayo
Frances Mercer
Joseph Monte
Duncan Noble
Jean Owens
Ricky Riccardi
Walter Rinner
Leslie Shannon
Ethel Sherman
Puddy Smith
Nina Starkey
William Vaux
Joe Viggiano
William Weber
Patricia Welles
Helen Wenzel
June Wieting
Parker Wilson
Leon Anthony
Tom Barrigan
Dick Beard
Forrest Bonshire
Gloria Brooks
Edward Cassell
Clarissa
Muriel Cole
William Drew
Charles Flynn
Jack Foley
Charles Howard
George Lambrose
Roma Leigh
Brayton Lewis
June Maclaren
Jack Malis
Jerry Meilan
Mavis Mims
Willamae Montur
Ben Murphy
Mischa Pompianov
Nancy Porter
Bobby Preist
Dale Preist
Jules Racine
Gordon Richards
Bob Roland
Ruth Ryder
George Sabo
Shirl Thomas
Terry Towne
Creative team
- Director
- Hassard Short
- Choreographer
- Jack Cole
- Orchestrations
- Hans Spiale
Recordings
1 recording of Something for the Boys exist, but none was released while this run was on. See Something for the Boys for all of them.
Around this production
Something for the Boys is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields. Produced by Mike Todd, the show opened on Broadway in 1943 and starred Ethel Merman in her fifth Cole Porter musical.
On January 7, 1943, there was a unique opening night at the Alvin for the latest Cole Porter/Ethel Merman musical, Something for the Boys. This was the date that a new government ruling went into effect because of the war. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 289
With Ethel Merman, Paula Laurence introduced “By the Mississinewah” in Cole Porter’s Something for the Boys (1943);
The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 894Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.