Carmen Jones.
Contributors: Hammerstein, Oscar, 1895-1960.; Short, Hassard, d. 1956.; Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875.; Merimee, Prosper, 1803-1870.; Broadway Theatre (Organization : New York, N.Y.); Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1945
Language: eng
Notes: Billy Rose presents "Carmen Jones," by Oscar Hammerstein II (based on Meilhac and Halevy's adaptation of Prosper Merimee's "Carmen") music by Georges Bizet, staging, lighting and color schemes of entire production by Hassard Short, libretto directed by Charles Friedman, new orchestral arrangements by Robert Russell Bennett, settings designed by Howard Bay, costumes by Raoul Pene duBois, choreography by Eugene Loring, choral direction by Robert Shaw, orchestra conducted by Joseph Littau.

Broadway Theatre, week beginning January 7, 1945.

Cast: Napoleon Reed or Robert Clarke, Robert Clarke or George Willis, Carlotta Franzell or Elton J. Warren, Jack Carr, Luther Saxon or Napoleon Reed, Murial Smith or Inez Matthews, Sibol Cain, Edward Roche, Carlos van Putten, Cosy Cole, Maithe Marshall, Edward Christopher, June Hawkins, Theresa Merritte, Edward Lee Tyler, Dick Montgomery, Bill O'Neil, Dorothy Williams, Glenn Bryant, Robert Clarke, Randall Steplight, George Willis, Elijah Hodges, P. Jay Sidney, Fredye Marshall, Alford Pierre, Urylee Leonardos, Ethel White, Ruth Crumpton, William Dillard, Sheldon B. Hoskins, Randolph Sawyer, Tony Fleming Jr.

Title devised by Library staff.

"The playbill for the Broadway Theatre"--Cover.

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