The Desert Song, 1946

The run closed February 16, 1946

Opened

January 8, 1946

Closed

February 16, 1946

Performances

45

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

City Center

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and carry a performance count, this is the 353rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Desert Song 2 more that season

1926	Casino Theatre Original · Arthur Hurley	471 perf.
1973	Uris Theatre Revival · Henry Butler	15 perf.

Who was in it58 named

Barbara Bailey
Jean Bartel
Joan Bishop
Lillian Bloch
William Bowers
George Burnson
Fred Butterworth
Jean Caples
Natalie Carr
Walter Cassel
Richard Charles
Warren Christian
Clarissa
Wilton Clary
Joseph Claudio
Arthur Couture
Rita Currier
Beth Alba Cushing
Louis Demagnus
John Donaty
Barbara Downie
Georgine Dwyer
Dean Etmund
Charles Fries
Keith Gingles
Jack Goode
Sterling Hall
Florette Hillier
Richard Hughes
Lynn Hunt
Rosemary Leisen
Doris Luff
Joseph Malpasuto
Allan Mars
Lester Matthews
Suzette Meredith
Sherry O Neil
Betina Orth
Tamara Page
Thayer Roberts
Antonio Rovano
Paul Ruth
Russell Sanders
W Vernon Sanders
Dorothy Sandlin
Harvey Sauber
Jack Saunders
Dorothy Jean Sheppard
Betty Slabe
Margaret Smitherum
Walter Swanson
Maria Taweel
Helen Vey
June Walks
Edward Wellman
Stanley Wolfe
Iris Whitney

1 of these 58 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 57 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Sterling Halloway

Choreographer

Sterling Halloway

Producer

Russell Lewis

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Recordings 6 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against The Desert Song, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• Which of the 6 recordings of The Desert Song document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.