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The history of Bells Are Ringing is , a choreographer of a curious one. No- producer called us some note, had just cut his directorial teeth

Avhile we were furiously engaged in five (approximately down to the gums) on other projects to tell us of his “hot idea.” . He, along with the aforemen- We did not turn him down impatiently tioned , had sealed a pact in and then later, as the idea swept over us some blood with us to put on some show in spite of ourselves, call him back sheep- at some time in some theatre in front of ishly to say, “We have been thinking it some people. over and we’ve got to drop everything for When one is (or two are) contemplating this one.” Avriting a book musical show, roughly two

Actually, in the fall of 1955 we were just roads of action stretch ahead—each equally sitting around with nothing to do except fraught with peril. These roads are: (1), think of an idea for a new musical show. adapt an existent work of some kind for

We had just finished two projects almost the musical stage, or (2), attempt to create simultaneously, the movie It’s Always Fair an original story.

Weather, and the writing with Jule Styne Let us examine the first — the musical of additional songs and material for Mary adaptation. Well, why not a musical com- Martin’s Peter Pan Continued on page 10

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Understudies for “Bells Are Ringing” Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific an- nouncement for the appearance Is made at the time of the performance. Ella—Phyllis Newman; Jeff— Hal Linden; Sandor—Paul Lipson; Sue—Michelle Reiner; Gwynne —Beryl Towbin; Barnes, Ludwig Smiley, Larry Hastings—Steve Roland; Francis—Willy Sumner; Olga—Jeannine Masterson; Paul Arnold—Julian Patrick; Man from Corvello Mob—Paul Michael; Kitchell—Frank Milton; Blake Barton—David McDaniel; Carl—Frank Derbas; Carol— Barbara Newman.

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JUDY HOLLIDAY ing at a dim and drafty cavern called the Ella Peterson Village Vanguard, went quickly up the ladder to such plushier spots as the Blue Miss Holliday blossomed on Broadway like Angel and the Rainbow Room. An early, a Roman candle in Kiss Them for Me, like joint assault on Hollywood failed, and the a roaring twenty-one gun salute in Born three went their separate, enormously suc- Yesterday. Her performance in Kiss Them cessful ways. Down through the years, for Me won her a Derwent Award. She however, while they were alternately coin- then spent six months looking for another ing hit movies for Hollywood and hit mu- job, and finally found one. Jean Arthur sicals for Broadway, Miss Comden and had opened in Born Yesterday in Boston, Mr. Green always kept the notion in the

but had fallen ill; producer Max Gordon, back of their minds that some time it left with a brilliant comedy that suddenly would be nice to write a show for their old

had no leading lady, had gnawed most of friend. This is it. his fingers down to the second joint before he thought of Miss Holliday. She was SYDNEY CHAPLIN rushed to Philadelphia, stoked with black Jeff Moss coffee, and given a mere three days to memorize the lengthy, juicy role of Billie Mr. Chaplin studied at Black Fox Mili- Dawn. The rest, as they say, is history. tary Academy and the Lawrenceville Miss Holliday played Billie for three full School. After serving in the Infantry dur- years on Broadway, swivel-hipping her way ing the war he took over management of around the stage, snapping out Garson the Circle Theatre in Hollywood in part- Kanin’s steel-tipped lines in a delightfully nership with two other young theatrical pure gashouse accent. A couple of years aficionados, presenting a repertory that later she recreated the role for the cameras ranged from Moliere to Saroyan, from and snatched Hollywood’s shiniest brass Galsworthy to Shaw. Among the Saroyan ring, an Academy Award. She has since items on the Circle playlists were two dra- made such films as Adam*s Rib, The Mar- mas, Sam Ego's House and The Son, that vying Kind, It Should Happen to You, have yet to be seen in New York. Mr. Phffft, and Full Chaplin himself appeared as Lieutenant of Life. Born Judith Tuvim in New York Charles in The Adding Machine, as John City, Miss Holliday first crossed swords Shand in What Every Woman Knows and with the drama as a switchboard operator as Sergeant O’Hara opposite June Havoc at Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre. After in Rain. He has played on the screen with a few hysterical weeks (two or more simul- his father, Charles Chaplin, in Limelight taneously flashing lights had a way of re- and in Land of the Pharaohs, Pillars of the ducing her to helpless panic) she and Mr. , Sky, Quantez, The Test and Confession. Welles agreed that her future lay some- where safely removed from a switchboard. Miss Holliday went to the mountains for JEAN STAPLETON a rest, and fell in with a group of young Sue actors, among them Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Came the Fall and they Miss Stapleton is the daughter of Marie invaded New York, with an act known as Stapleton-Murray, who has sung leading The Revuers. They wrote their own sa- roles with the San Carlo Opera Company tirical songs and sketches, and after open- and the Chicago Opera Company. Jean 21

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first faced an audience on a tour of the women’s club circuit, playing Beatrice Lillie’s “Double Damask Dinner Napkins’’ sketch. She toured with Frank Fay in Har- vey and as Shirley Booth’s understudy in Come Back, Little Sheba, also playing the role of the neighbor in that production. She made her first New York appearance as the oyster cocktail waitress in In the Summer House, then played an avid base- ball fan in Damn Yankees.

EDDIE LAWRENCE Sandor

Mr. Lawrence studied at Brooklyn College and L’Academie de la Grand Chaumiere in Paris, receiving a B.A. from the former and a good linguistic background from the latter. He started as a vaudeville per- former at the Brighton Beach Baths and made his first New York appearance at Radio City Music Hall. He has played vaudeville and night club engagements all over the country and was a featured com- edian on television with Victor Borge and Kay Kyser. He appeared last season in at the Theatre de

first I Lys in Greenwich Village. His motion

1 picture was Act of Love. He has recorded two of his vaudeville routines, The Old Philosopher and Old, Old Vienna.

DORT CLARK Inspector Barnes

Mr. Clark studied at Kansas State Teach- ers’ College before he decided that his fu- ture lay on the stage rather than in the schoolroom. He appeared in New York in Sweet Charity, Snafu and with Helen

! Hayes in Happy Birthday. He understud- ied Myron McCormick in South Pacific, eventually succeeding to the role of Lu- ther Billis. More recently he played the newspaper reporter who led Rosalind Rus- sell on a wild goose chase to the Brooklyn Navy Yard in ,

ABOUT $36.00 0. ALTMAN & CO. 22 FRANK ALETTER Blake Barton ON YOUR Mr. Aletter received his theatrical initia- tion while serving with the Army in Ger- FEET I many immediately after the war. On re- 1 turning to American soil and civilian A LOT? I status he made his Broadway debut in Mis- Say goodbye ter Roberts and toured the country with to leg fatigue it, then returned to New York as Itchy with the only Flexner, the untiring social director of ultra-fashion Wish You Were Here. He scored a great elastic sheer personal success as Sergeant Baker, Arthur nylon stocking Kennedy’s aide and severest critic in the designed Theatre Guild production of Time Limit. support! 495 On television he has appeared on Studio “#PAIR One, Circle Theatre, and others. He made his screen debut in Mister Roberts.

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jama Game. He spent the better part of a season with Roland Petit’s Ballet de Paris, and recently returned from Hollywood where he recreated his Steam Heat assign- 50 ment for the cameras. east BERNIE WEST 79 Dr. Kitchell Southeast Corner Mr. West started in the theatre with a Ma- Madison Aue. jor Bowes vaudeville unit. He first came to Broadway in New Faces of 1943 and ap- peared the following year in Early to Bed. He has been the leading comic for the past 19 STORY and penthouse seven years at Green Mansions and Camp Tamiment, spawning ground of such per- air-conditioned apartment residence formers as Danny Kaye and Imogene Coca. now under construction He has appeared at Cafe Society and the

Now leasing from plans. 5, 6, 7 Ruban Bleu in New York and at leading and 8 Rooms. Many with Park night clubs across the country. Immedi- Views starting at $500 per month ately prior to Bells Are Ringing, he played Renting office on premises in a Los Angeles revue entitled Joy Ride. Open Daily and Sunday LEhigh 5-2218 A FISHER BROS, building PAT WILKES Gwynne

Miss Wilkes made her first Broadway ap- pearance in Wonderful Town, in which she understudied Rosalind Russell. She toured as Dorothy in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and once served, in a lean the- atrical period, as a Wall Street secretary. She was last seen on Broadway in Mr. Wonderful.

BERYL TOWBIN Carol

Miss Towbin, who made her local debut in the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. The King and I, as a dancer in the chorus line, has come a long way up the Broad- way stage ladder. She was understudy to Helen Gallagher in , created laughs in a comedy bit in Girl in the Pink Tights, and was featured in a Ziegfeld Fol-

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A Phi Beta Kappa key-holder at Swarth- more, once an ebullient sportswriter and columnist for the newspapers PM and the New York Star, Mr. Broun switched to act- ing in 1949. That Fall, he became an actor in Love Me Long, but not for long. The following three stage jobs were equally short-lived; but his performances in the plays— Bird Cage, The Live Wire and The Small Hours—vfon huzzahs and a part in the long-running Point of No Return, subsequently a featured role in last year’s The Pink Elephant. His theatrical activi- ties have been spiced with frequent ap- pearances on television.

FRANK MILTON Ludwig Smiley

Mr. Milton attended Lafayette College and made his initial New York appear- ance in All in Fun. He appeared subse- | quently in , with Gertrude Lawrence in Tonight at 8:30, with Char- lotte Greenwood in Out of This World, and as one of Carol Channing’s Gallic ad- mirers in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. He produced Pal Joey for Equity Library Theatre.

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Miss Comden and Mr. Green, who wrote both book and lyrics for Bells Are Ring- ing, are one of the most successful writing teams on Broadway—or in Hollywood, for that matter. For Times Square, they have coined such musical hits as On the Town, and , in addition to providing lyrics for Won- derful Town and Mary Martin’s Peter Pan; in California, their screen credits in- clude , The Barkleys of Broad- way, On the Town, Singin* in the Rain, , IPs Always Fair Weath- er and the upcoming Wonderland. While the actual writing of Bells Are Ringing began a year or so ago. Miss Comden and Mr. Green had long nursed the idea of one day writing a Broadway musical for their old “Revuer” friend, Judy Holliday. The synchronization of three busy sched- ules took quite some time to achieve— that the wait was worth while seems to go with- out saying.

JULE STYNE

Mr. Styne has been keeping three or four separate careers going for the past decade WHAT IS THIS? or so. Bells Are Ringing brings him back Something you can't accom- to his first love, composing. His scores have

plish ••'A while coughing. previously graced such Broadway shows as kiss. Banish a tickle in , Gentlemen Prefer your throat when you're feeling affectionate, and Blondes, Two on the Aisle, Hazel Flagg any other time, with sooth- and Peter Pan. He has also done songs for ing Allenburys Pastilles. some thirty motion pictures, and a year or If you'd rather talk, at all so ago he was awarded his first Oscar, for times, Allenburys clear the voice, too. And they taste Three Coins in the Fountain. Mr. Styne of English black currants, turned producer five years ago when he ripe. sponsored a gleaming revival of Pal Joey. Allenburys Pastilles Since then he has presented In Any Lan- at your druggist guage, Hazel Flagg, Will Success Spoil

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Mr. Robbins, who not only staged Bells 6XC6pi Are Ringing but also collaborated with Bob Fosse on its inventive choreography, is one of the country’s top-drawer director- choreographers. Direction is a compara- ITALIAN tively new field for him, but in a few brief 24 W. 55 ST. seasons he has already co-directed The Pa- oocj^tdils jama Game (with ), been dinner completely responsible for all aspects of the staging of Mary Martin’s triumphant Peter Pan, and been entrusted with the overall supervision of Bells Are Ringing. His ballets, many of them staged for the New York City Ballet, include Interplay, Age of Anxiety, The Cage, Pied Piper, Fanfare, Afternoon of a Faun and The Concert. On Broadway, Mr. Robbins’ cho- reographic credits include the dances for such musicals as Billion Dollar Baby, Look, Ma, Fm Dancin', High Button Shoes, The King and I and Call Me Madam. BOB FOSSE Mr. Fosse, who with Jerome Robbins de- vised the dances for Bells Are Ringing, made his Broadway bow as a choreogra- pher with The Pajama Game, and prompt- ly won himself a Tony, emblematic of the best dance designs of the season in the New York theatre. He also supervised the dance routines for Damn Yankees. Still some distance this side of thirty. Fosse made his debut on Broadway in a featured role in Call Me Mister. He also danced in Make Mine Manhattan and Dance Me a Song. He was Joey in that summer the- atre production of Pal Joey which spar- ked the Broadway revival, and has done a great deal of nightclub work; New York stay-ups have watched him dance at the Waldorf-Astoria, the Plaza and the Pierre.

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mer. Draperies by I. Weiss and Son. Lancers Crack- ling Vin Rose by Vintage Wines. Beverages by Old Hickory Distilling Co. Watches by Bulova Co. Jewelry by Coro. Fabrics by Gladstone. Additional fabrics by Dazian’s, Inc. Technical Advisors, Telan- serphone Co., Telephone Answering System. Women’s handbags by Greta. “After Six” men’s dinner clothes by Rudofker. Dentist office designed by Rubinstein Dental Equipment Corp. Costumes dry cleaned ex- clusively by Ernest Winzer Inc. Lighters courtesy of Ronson. Acrosonic Piano courtesy of Baldwin.

THE THEATRE GUILD THERESA HELBURN LAWRENCE LANGNER ARMINA MARSHALL

Counsel H. William Fitelson General Manager Peter Davis Associate Business Manager Sara Greenspan Subscription Secretary Addle Williams General Press Representative Nat Dorfman Administrator Warren Caro Production Associate Philip Langner Assistant to Lawrence Langner .... Henry Weinstein Production Assistant Marshall Young Play Department William Herman Casting Representative Ruth Frankenstein Scenic Department William McGirr Bookkeeping Department Margaret Becher Costume Department Hallye Clogg Orchestra Pesonnel Manager Sol Gusikoff

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Press Representative Dick Weaver Production Supervisor Jerome Whyte General Stage Manager Charles Atkin Stage Manager Fred Smith Assistant Stage Manager Joseph Dooley Production Secretary Elsa Walden Orchestra Personnel Manager Sol Gusikoff Assistant Conductor Frank NowIckI Casting Representative Ruth Frankenstein is the Suit Master Electrician Lloyd Kelley This HAYMAKER Jump Assistant Electricians Edward P. McSorley, to wear when you don’t go to the theatre. Harry Blassman, Lowell Sherman, John Sullivan Shirts and pants co-star in one act—never Master Carpenter Edward Bullard to part. in beige, blue, Master of Properties Boyd Moorehead Silk-and-cotton Assistant Propertyman Joe ZaniewskI pumpkin or limelight. Matching cummer- Wardrobe Mistress Hallye Clogg bund. Sizes 8-16. $20. Bergdorf Goodman, Assistant Wardrobe Mistress Blanche Besand N. Y.; Marshall Field & Co., Chicago;

The Aerzonator Air Purifier and Soaperior Liquid Soap I. Magnin & Co., California & Seattle. Dispensing System used in this theatre are made by the U. S. Sanitary Specialties Corp. Haymaker Sports Inc., 498 Seventh Ave., N.Y. 30 Continued from page 7 was a full-page ad for a telephone answer- edy version of some tried and true play like ing service, showing a cheery young girl Junior Miss or June Moon? Or maybe who looked like a benevolent Medusa.

some wonderful old Lubitsch movie—or, From her head there streched many tele- heyl — a modern dress version of Don phone wires leading to representations of

Quixote . . . people in all walks of life—doctors, execu-

Now let us examine Road Number Two tives, housewives, etc. —the original story. What to write about? In about a minute and a half we knew A theme for a musical show should ideally we had found our idea. be simple yet large and universal; sophisti- Almost immediately we approached our cated yet down-to-earth; funny yet poign- oldest and closest friend, Judy Holliday.

ant; brittle yet full of heart; believable yet Since our night club days together it had zany, in the best of taste yet permitting of been our fondest dream to write a show horseplay and dances and gags and gals. for her. With nary a line to show her on On that fateful fall day two years ago, paper, we told her a rough outline. She

one of us was glancing at a New York tele- loved it. During a year of remitting toil,

phone directory in a miserable attempt at we wrote it. And she is now, if you will diversion, when he or she happened to pardon the expression, playing the abso-

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M: 32 Playbill’s Theatre Guide * MUSICAL COMEDY t DRAMA

AUNTIE MAME, starring GREER GARSON, directed ROMANOFF AND JULIET, starring PETER USTINOV. * * by MORTON DaCOSTA. BROADHURST PLYMOUTH Theatre, 236 West 45th Street. Theatre, West 44th Street. Circle 6-6699 Circle 6-9150. Matinees Wednesday and Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. Saturday. BELLS ARE RINGING, starring JUDY HOLLIDAY. SHU- BERT Theatre, West 44th Street. Circle SUMMER OF THE 17th DOLL, by RAY LAWLER, directed 6-5990. Matinees Wednesday and Satur- t by JOHN SUMNER, with the ORIGINAL day. ALL-AUSTRALIAN COMPANY. CORONET Theatre, 230 West 49th Street. Circle COMPULSION, starring FRANK CONROY, RODDY Mc- 6-5870. Matinees Wednesday and Sat- urday. t DOWALL, DEAN STOCKWELL. AMBASSA- DOR Theatre, West 49th Street. COlumbus 5-1855. Evenings Tuesday through Sun- SUNRISE AT CAMPOBELLO, starring RALPH BELLAMY, day. Matinees Saturday and Sunday. t CORT Theatre, 48th Street, east of Broad- way. Circle 5-4289. Matinees Wednesday CLOUD SEVEN, Starring RALPH MEEKER and MARTHA and Saturday. * SCOTT. GOLDEN Theatre, 252 West 45th Circle 6-6740. Matinees Wednes- Street. THE BODY BEAUTIFUL, with MINDY day and Saturday. CARSON, JACK WARDEN, LONNIE SATTIN, BARBARA MC- NAIR and STEVE FORREST. BROADWAY FAIR starring SAM LEVENE, with ELLEN McRAE, GAME, Theatre, 1681 Broadway. Circle 7-7992. * ROBERT WEBBER. LONGACRE Theatre, Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. West 48th Street. Circle 6-5639. Mati- nees Wednesday and Saturday. THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS, by WILLIAM INTERLOCK, starring CELESTE HOLM, MAXIMILIAN t INGE, directed by ELIA KAZAN. MUSIC t SCHELL, ROSEMARY HARRIS. ANTA The- BOX Theatre, 239 West 45th Street. Circle atre, 245 West 52nd Street. Circle 6-6270. 6-4636. Matinees Wednesday and Satur- Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. day.

JAMAICA, starring LENA HORNE, RICARDO MONTAL- THE ENTERTAINER, a play with music by JOHN OS- BAN. IMPERIAL Theatre, West 45th Street. BORNE, starring LAURENCE OLlVIER COlumbus 5-2412. Matinees Wednesday GEORGE RELPH, BRENDA DE BANZIE, and Saturday. JOAN PLOWRIGHT. ROYALE Theatre, 45th Street, west of Broadway. Circle 5-5760. LI’L ABNER, with PETER PALMER, HOWARD ST. JOHN, Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. if STUBBY KAYE, JOYCE GLADMOND, BILLIE HAYES. ST. JAMES Theatre, West 44th Street. LAckawanna 4-4664. Matinees THE INFERNAL MACHINE, by JEAN COCTEAU, starring Wednesday and Saturday. t JOHN KERR, JUNE HAVOC. PHOENIX Theatre, 189 Second Avenue. ORegon 4-7160. Matinees Saturday and Sunaay. LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, by EUGENE t O’NEILL, starring FREDRIC MARCH, FLORENCE ELDRIDGE. THE MUSIC MAN, starring ROBERT PRESTON. MAJES- Theatre, 46th Street, west of Broadway. TIC Theatre, 44th Street, west of Broad- Circle 6-6380. Evenings only at 7:30. way. Circle 6-0730. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. LOOK BACK IN ANGER, by JOHN OSBORNE, starring THE t MARY URE, KENNETH HAIGH. LYCEUM ROPE DANCERS, starring SIOBHAN McKENNA, Theatre, 45th Street, east of Broadway. t ART CARNEY. HENRY MILLER’S Theatre, JUdson 2-3897. Matinees Wednesday and 124 West 43rd Street. BRyant 9-3970. Saturday. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday.

LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL, starring ANTHONY PER- THE TUNNEL OF LOVE, starring , * t KINS, JO VAN FLEET, HUGH GRIFFITH. MARSHA HUNT. MARTIN BECK Theatre, BARRYMORE Theatre, 47th Street, west of 45th Street, west of Eighth Avenue. Clrc:e Broadway. Circle 6-0390. Matinees Wed- 6-6363. Matinees Saturday and Sunday. nesday and Saturday. TIME REMEMBERED, starring HELEN HAYES, RICHARD MAYBE TUESDAY, with RICHARD DERR and PATRICIA * BURTON, SUSAN STRASBERG. MO- * SMITH. PLAYHOUSE Theatre, 137 West ROSCO Theatre, West 45th Street. Circle 48th Street. Circle 5-6060. Matinees Wed- 6-6230. Matinees Wednesday and Satur- nesday and Saturday. day.

MY FAIR LADY, starring EDWARD MULHARE, SALLY TWO FOR THE SEESAW, starring HENRY FONDA, with ANN HOWES. , t ANNE BANCROFT. BOOTH Theatre, West 51st Street, west of Broadway. PLaza 45th Street. Circle 6-5969. Matinees Wed- 7-7064. Matinees Wednesday and Satur- nesday and Saturday. day.

WEST SIDE STORY, WINTER GARDEN Theatre, Broad- NEW GIRL IN TOWN, starring GWEN VERDON, THELMA and 50th Street. Circle 5-4878. Mati- RITTER. if way 46th ST. Theatre, 46th Street, nees Wednesday and Saturday. west of Broadway. Circle 6-4271. Mati- nees Wednesday and Saturday. WINESBURG, OHIO, starring DOROTHY McGUIRE, LEON OH, CAPTAIN! starring TONY RANDALL, ABBE LANE, t AMES, JAMES WHITMORE. NATIONAL directed by JOSE FERRER. ALVIN The- Theatre, 208 West 41st Street. PEnnsyl- atre, 250 West 52nd Street. Circle 5-5226. vania 6-0651. Matinees Wednesday and Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. Saturday. Always refreshing - never filling

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