The show is on
Contributors: Lahr, Bert, 1895-1967; Minnelli, Vincente; National Theatre Corporation (Washington, D.C.); Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1936
Language: eng
Description: National Theatre, direction Rapley Theatre Compnay, S.E. Cochran, manager, the Messrs. Shubert present Beatrice Lillie and Bert Lahr in Vincent Minnelli's new musical "The Show Is On," with Reginald Gardiner, Mitzi Mayfair, Paul Haakon, Gracie Barrie, Charles Walters, Vera Allen, John McCauley, Evelyn Thawl, Ralph Riggs, Marie Carroll, Roy Campbell's Continentals, entire production conceived, staged and designed by Vincente Minnelli, dances and principals' numbers staged by Robert Alton, music and lyrics mostly by Vernon Duke & Ted Fetter, and also by Carmichael & Adams, Dietz & Schwartz, Geo. & Ira Gershwin, Harberg & Arlen, Herman Hupfeld, Irwin & Zeno, Rogers & Hart, sketches mostly by David Freedman and Moss Hart, sketches directed by Edward Clark Lilley, choreography for the "Casanova" and "Tragedian" ballets by Harry Losee, orchestra conducted by Gordon Jenkins.
Notes: National Theatre, week beginning December 7th, 1936.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: The Continentals, Reginal Gardiner and his Shakespearians, Gracie Barrie, Marion Allen, Hazel Bofinger, Mary Ann Carr, Dorothy Daly, Doris Donaldson, Helene Ecklund, Claire Ellis, Peggy Gallimore, Ruth Greeley, Pearl Harris, Irene Kelly, Jerrie Koban, Jane Lane Gertrude Medwin, June McNulty, Jean Moorehead, Marion Murray, Mary Phillips, Polly Rose, Sherry Stuart, Marie Vaughn, Mildred Webb, Bert Lahr, Vera Allen, Richard Satterfeld, Paul Haakon, Evelyn Thawl, Beatrice Lillie, Charles Walters, Mitzi Mayfair, John McCauley, Ralph Riggs, Willem Van Loon, Marie Carrol, Gifford Nash, Kenneth Bostock, Hugh Ellsworth, Mischa Pompianov, Mortimer O'Brien, Andre Charise, Mitzi Mayfair, Duke Williams, Georgina Spelvin, Harry Rogue, Harry Mack, Florence Rogue.

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