Period program for ON YOUR TOES

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/19/08 at 10:55pm

This is the Playgoer playbill for the post-Broadway tour of "On Your Toes" in 1937. This is from the one week run at The Cass Theater in Detroit (some of you may remember it as The Summit. It was demolished in 1977.)

I bought the program on eBay a few days ago.

Often, the Playgoer covers had much better photos than the Broadway Playbills. That's a very young Ray Bolger and Luella Gear with the lovely Tamara Geva behind them.

Updated On: 7/19/08 at 10:55 PM

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 7/19/08 at 10:57pm

I'm totally jealous!!! Wow...nice!!

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/19/08 at 10:57pm

and here's The Cass Theater.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/19/08 at 11:03pm

What the hell. It's such a beautiful program I'll put a few pages up. I should be writing tonight and the studio I'm writing for will get angry that I'm slacking off but we got our butts whipped real good by THE DARK KNIGHT so I suppose that's all they'll be talking about on Monday.

Here's the first page

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/19/08 at 11:10pm

I won't do many but this is SUCH a beautiful ad that I included it.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/19/08 at 11:15pm

Here's another "color commentary" page with local interest - local girl makes it on Broadway.

I won't do the whole playbill as it's identical to the New York cast and crew and I scanned the whole NYC program for a previous post.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/19/08 at 11:16pm

Here's the tour poster

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/19/08 at 11:20pm

and I love this page. Article two. The Group theater closes down because they ran out of scripts!!! Where the hell is Clifford Odet when you need him?

Updated On: 7/19/08 at 11:20 PM

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/19/08 at 11:22pm

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883

That's my mega-post on "On Your Toes."

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/20/08 at 2:40am

[allofmylife]

Posted: 5/6/13 at 10:01pm

Thought I'd bump it for those who are seeing City Center's production.