HELLZAPOPPIN / PORTRAIT OF A LADY Playbill JAY C FLIPPEN / RUTH GORDON Phila `42

Description

HELLZAPOPPIN
and
PORTRAIT OF A LADY
, Playgoer (Playbill type program)
, 01/05/42, Forrest Theatre / Locust Street Theatre, Philadelphia, PA
.
Through the 20s, 30s and 40's the Playgoer in Philadelphia often used one program for several of the theatres there.  This one features the tour of  HELLZAPOPPIN at the Forrest Theatre and the tryout of the play, PORTRAIT OF A LADY at the Locust Street Theatre.
HELLZAPOPPIN
, t
he musical revue opened NYC on 09/22/38 and ran for 1404 performances
.
The tour cast includes Jay C. Flippen; Happy Felton; Barto & Mann; The Radio Rogues; Charles Withers; Harry Reso; The Charioteers; Lyda Sue; Theo Hardeen (
younger brother of famed magician, Harry Houdini); The Biltmorettes; The Three Debs; Shirley Wayne; Ruth Faber; Stephen Olsen; Bergh & Moore; Dippy Diers; Bobby Barry and Billy Adams
.
Music and lyrics by Sammy Fain and Charles Tobias and book by Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson.  Directed by Edward Duryea Dowling and choreographed by Gae Foster and staged by Alice Sullivan
.
PORTRAIT OF A LADY
, the comedy by Alexander King and Chester Erskin (not to be confused with the 1954 drama by William Archibald based on the novel by Henry James) opened it's pre-Broadway tryout in Boston, MA on 12/27/41 and closed in Philadelphia on 01/10/42 without ever opening in NYC.  The cast includes Ruth Gordon, Marjorie Bell (Marge Champion), Eloise Sheldon, Ruth Thane McDivitt, Frederic Worlock, A.J. Herbert, Lloyd Gough, Nicholas Joy, Kay Strozzi, Mary Sargent, Harold Waldrige, Austin Fairman and Lyle Bettger.  Directed by Chester Erskin.
The program is complete.
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