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Shows · The Body Beautiful · Broadway, 1958

The Body Beautiful, 1958

Opened January 23, 1958

Closed March 15, 1958

60 performances

Broadway Theatre

Revival

Broadway

The Body Beautiful
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Of the productions that opened in the 1950s, this had the 287th longest run.

Who was in it47 named

Tony Atkins
Mace Barrett
Armand Bonay
Richard Chitos
Richard de Bella
Jack de Lon
Ethelyne Dunfee
Shellie Farrell
Kathie Forman
Edmund Gaynes
Bette Graham
Buzz Halliday
Tommy Halloran
William Hickey
Patsi King
Louis Kosman
Mara Lynn
James Mcanany
Ralph Mcwilliams
Mitchell Nutick
Yvonne Othon
Stan Papich
Albert Popwell
Thomas Raskin
Nora Reho
Bill Richards
Jeff Roberts
Harry Lee Rogers
Jane Romano
Joe Ross
Lonnie Sattin
Helen Silver
Knute Sullivan
Robert Weinsko

Creative team

Director
George Schaefer
Choreographer
Herbert Ross

Around this production

In The Body Beautiful, Warden knocked out the critics with a classic scene in which he tries to conduct a business interview in a steam bath. Fully dressed in a business suit, he fails miserably in his attempts to deal with the heat and the steam by drinking ice water, putting his hands in an ice pitcher, wiping his face with his shirt, mopping himself with a sheet covering a nearby naked man, and… The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 680

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