Polonaise
Contributors: Eggerth, Martha; Bois, Curt; Inghram, Rose; Hoffman, Ferdi, d. 1989; Kaper, Bronislaw, 1902-1983; Latouche, John, 1917-1956; Dowling, Edward Duryea; Lichine, David; Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849; Reinhardt, Gottfried; Veiller, Anthony, 1903-1965; E Street Theatre Corporation (Washington, D.C.); National Theatre Corporation (Washington, D.C.); Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1945
Language: eng
Description: National Theatre, E Street Theatre Corporation, lessee, Edmund Plohn, manager, W. Horace Schmidlapp in association with Harry Boomfield presents Jan Kiepura, Marta Eggerth in "Polonaise," a new musical, by Gottfried Reinhardt and Anthony Veiller, with Curt Bois, Rose Inghram, Ferdi Hoffman, Tania Riabouchinska, music by Frederic Chopin, adaptations and original numbers by Bronislaw Kaper, lyrics by John Latouche, staged by Edward Duryea Dowling, choreography by David Lichine, settings by Howard Bay, costumes by Mary Grant, orchestrations by Don Walker, conductor Max Goberman, choral director Irving Landau.
Notes: National Theatre, week beginning Monday evening, September 24, 1945.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: John V. Schmidt, Walter Munroe, Martin Lewis, Jan Kiepura, Curt Bois, Sidney Lawson, Arthur Lincoln, Martin Cooke, Mara Eggerth, Rem Olmsted, Tania Riabouchinska, Ferdi Hoffman, Graham Velsey, Rose Inghram, Lewis Appleton, Andrew Thurston, Gary Green, Victor Savidge, George Spelvin, Larry Beck, Larry O'Dell, James Mac Coll, Walter Appler, Jay Dowd, Candy Jones, Leta Mauree, Sherry Shadburne, Martha Emma Watson, Alica Krug, Ruth Riekman, Shawn O'Brien, Sergei Ismaeloff, Amalia Valez, Jean Harris, Virginia Barnes, Adele Bodroghy, Joan Collenette. Singers: Misses Eileen Ayers, Joan Bartels, Marjorie Chandler, Jean Cummings, Ann Dennis, Leigh Hoffman, Mary McQuade, Mary Woodley, Barbara Barlow, Jeanette Weiss. Messrs. Lewis Appleton, Oakley Bailey, Larry Beck, Oliver Boersma, Martin Cooke, Gary Green, Raynor C. Howell, Arthur Lincoln, Sidney Lawson, Larry O'Dell, John Schmidt, Otto Simanek, Andrew Thurson, Michael Vertzilous, Tony Montell. Dancers: misses Virginia Barnes, May Block, Adele Bodroghy, Jane Collenette, Betty Durrence, Jean Harris Pamela Kastner, Alicia Krug, Dorothy Love, Ruthanna Mitchell, Ruth Riekman, Dorothy Scott, Amalia Velez. Messrs. Hubert Bland, Jay Dowd, Jerry Florio, Sergei Ismaeloff, Martin Kraft, Tangi Nicelli, Shawn O'Brien, Martin Schneider, Mark West.

In: Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress).