PAL JOEY 1940-41 repost by requestS- Page 2

[allofmylife]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 1:54am

more to come

Updated On: 12/24/08 at 01:54 AM

[allofmylife]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 2:16am

That may be the choreographer Robert Alton on far stage left.

The colors are so eye opening. After a lifetime of thinking of 40s Broadway in black-and-white, it's always interesting to see the vivid color.

Updated On: 12/24/08 at 02:16 AM

[allofmylife]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 2:28am

During the performance of PAL JOEY, Mr. Kelly and the cast smoke Camels exclusively. Camels are good on your T-Zones, that's T for Throat and T for Taste. Smoke Camels.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 2:35am

So this one is my cell, and that's my email, my blog, my twitter and I also post on Broadwayworld.com."

[allofmylife]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 2:53am

[allofmylife]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 2:55am

Will the person who just got the call to go to Hollywood step forward? Not so fast, Van Johnson.

Well kids, like Kelly said to the boys and girls in the chorus in 1941, it's been a blast.

Bye for now.

Updated On: 12/24/08 at 02:55 AM

[Usnavi]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 5:04am

god i love me some gene kelly. they just don't make 'em like that anymore.

[dg22894]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 9:08am

Thanks! they look amazing

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 9:28am

Love the captions!

[jaystarr]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 10:07am

Thanks so much! Aww! I saving saving some of the photos in my facebook's PAL JOEY album...

Too bad we dont have the 1940 PAL JOEY recording. Though we have the 1952 recording~i cant stop listening to it! Love the score!

Looking forward to see the 2008 Roundabout's revival. I know it got mixed reviews but nevertheless were going to see it!

J*
Updated On: 12/24/08 at 10:07 AM

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 10:13am

These photos are all fantastic! Thanks so much for sharing them. I love that last one with Van Johnson standing in the background behind Gene.

I also love the sets and costumes.

I wonder if BWW's own Miriam (aka onceadancer2) is in these. I assume so!

[MCfan2]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 10:44am

Oh, Gene, you gorgeous man . . . Thank you so much for these, allofmylife. You've made my day!

[Scripps2]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 11:16am

Brilliant theatre heritage, and posted with such wit.

Thank you for sharing.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 12:56pm

I found this one day while cruising flickr (well, at least I wasn't lurking in porn sites!) It's a photo held up by someone whose mother was a student of Gene's at one of his dance studios in Pittsburg. What a great photo. I hope the owner doesn't mind me showing this one and the next one. They are real gems!

[allofmylife]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 12:58pm

The corps de ballet of the Kelly Studio. Next stop, Radio City!

[allofmylife]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 12:59pm

And this is just downright amazing....

It's from the tour, after Kelly left for Hollywood.

And of course, to paraphrase Man-in-Chair: "Of course, back then, 'A Gay Musical' had a whole different meaning..."

Updated On: 12/24/08 at 12:59 PM

[allofmylife]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 1:38pm

Sorry Gypsy, your sister June Havoc really was better looking and more talented.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 1:40pm

Like most of the male leads of the 30s and early 40s, Kelly had mastered dealing with the vexing problem of the spontaneously-floating chorus girl. Here he demonstrates his technique to chorus boy Van Johnson.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 1:43pm

Happy Hunting Horn-dogs

Updated On: 12/24/08 at 01:43 PM

[jaystarr]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 2:13pm

1941 Playbill

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 3:22pm

I know that back then "A Gay Musical" meant a happy, carefree musical, but Pal Joey was never that. It was always dark.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 3:28pm

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 3:36pm

Isn't it time that all we Joey-ites stormed Studio 54 and did what the French did to the Bastille? I mean, what Roundabout's done to that glorious show is right up there with what the French aristocracy did the the citizens of France. And start greasing the wheels of the tumbrils, too.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 4:16pm

Paul Ydstie's wonderful e-Bay store Broadway!!! is currently offering this for sale. It;s a program for the original tour after Kelly had left the show in October of '41. So Vivienne Segal is elevated to starring status.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 12/24/08 at 4:18pm

Segal and Georgie Tapps soldiered on for a few months. I just ran across him starring in a flop Willie Howard musical from 1942.