Image Title

:  [Window card for By Jupiter]

Additional Name(s)

: Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979 -- Composer

Published Date

: 1942

Specific Material Type

: prints

Notes

: Original production with Nanette Fabray replacing Constance Moore. With Benay Venuta, Ronald Graham, Bertha Belmore. Directed by Joshua Logan. Dances by Robert Alton. Note 2.) Partial text on window card: Wiman and Rodgers in association with Richard Kollmar present Ray Bolger in By Jupiter, the new Rodgers & Hart musical hit... Note 3.) Richard Rodgers project Note 4.) Shubert Theatre, 44th Street West of Broadway [New York].

Production Notes

: Based on the play The Warrior's Husband by Julian Thompson, the musical is set in the land of the Amazons, where women fight in wars and the men stay home and take care of the children. The score and book by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Opened at the Shubert Theater on June 3, 1942, and ran for 427 performances, with Ray Bolger, Benay Venuta, Vera-Ellen and Constance Moore.

Source

: Window cards. / By Jupiter

Location

: The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts / Billy Rose Theatre Division

Catalog Call Number

: MWEZ+++ n.c. 21,790

Digital ID

: 1709022

Record ID

: 1885410

Digital Item Published

: 9-16-2009; updated 3-25-2011