- (1946 - 1979) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1946) Stage Play: Beggar's Holiday. Musical. Music by 'Duke Ellington,'. Book by John La Touche. Lyrics by John La Touche. Musical Director: Max Meth. Orchestrations under personal supervision of Billy Strayhorn. Based on "The Beggar's Opera" by John Gay. Lyrics of "Brown Penny" based on poem by William Butler Yeats. Choreographed by Valerie Bettis. Production Design by Oliver Smith. Book Directed by Nicholas Ray [final Broadway credit]. Broadway Theatre: 26 Dec 1946- 29 Mar 1947 (111 performances). Cast: Alfred Drake (as "MacHeath"), Zero Mostel (as "Hamilton Peachum"), Hy Anzell (as "Customer") [Broadway debut], Marjorie Belle (as "The Lookout/The Girl/Lead Dancer"), Jack Bittner (as "Highbinder/Member of Mac's Gang"), Perry Bruskin (as "The Foot/Mooch/Member of Mac's Gang"), Marie Bryant (as "The Cocoa Girl"), Stanley Carlson (as "Fingersmith/Member of Mac's Gang"), Lewis Charles (as "A Drunk/Member of Mac's Gang"), William Dillard (as "The Horn/Member of Mac's Gang"), Malka Farber (as "Trixy Turner/Dancer"), Paul Godkin (as "Wire Boy/The Boy/Lead Dancer"), Thomas Gomez (as "The Pursued/The Other Eye/Dancer"), Doris Goodwin (as "Mrs. Trapes/Dancer"),Claire Hale (as "Baby Mildred/Dancer"), Leonne Hall (as "Betty Doxy"), Douglas Henderson (as "The Caser"), Lucas Hoving (as "Policeman/Strip/Dancer"), Dorothy Johnson (as "Mrs. Peachum"), Elmira Jones-Bey (as "Bessie Buns/Dancer"), Nina Korda (as "Minute Lou"), Avon Long (as "Careless Love"), Jet MacDonald (as "Polly Peachum"), Tommie Moore (as "Tawdry Audrey"), Gordon Nelson (as "O'Heister/Customer/Black Marketeer/Member of Mac's Gang"), Lavina Nielson (as "Dolly Trull/Dancer"), Bernice Parks (as "Jenny"), Albert Popwell (as "Plainclothesman/Slam/Dancer"), Herbert Ross (as "Policeman/Bartender/Dancer"), Archie Savage (as "Cop/Gunsel/Dancer"), Mildred Joanne (as "Smith Lucy Lockit"), Rollin Smith (as "Chief Lockit"), Pan Theodore (as "The Eye/Blenkinsop"), Royce Wallace (as "Annie Coaxer/Dancer"), Enid Williams (as "Flora/The Harpy/Dancer"). Replacement actor: Margaret Wilson (as "Betty Doxy"). Produced by Perry Watkins and John R. Sheppard Jr.
- (1961) Stage Play: Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole.
- (1962) Stage Play: Seidman and Son. Comedy.
- (1975) Stage Play: Yentl. Written by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Incidental music by Mel Marvin. Eugene O'Neill Theatre: 23 Oct 1975- 2 May 1975 (223 performances + 11 previews that began on 15 Oct 1975). Cast: Hy Anzell (as "Mordecai/Feitl"), Herman O. Arbeit (as "Treitl/Reb Alter, Hadass' Father"), Mary Ellen Ashley (as "Rivka/Necheleh/Chambermaid"), Robin Bartlett (as "Raizeleh/Avram"), Stephen dePietri (as "Shmuel/Zisheh/Dr. Chanina/Musician"), Blanche Dee (as "Pesheh"), David Eric (as "Moishe/Gershon/Chaim/Musician"), Tovah Feldshuh (as "Yentl"), Elaine Grollman (as "Zlateh"), Rita Karin (as "Yachna"), Lynn Ann Leveridge (as "Hadass"), Leland Moss (as "Lemmel/Yussel/Wedding Jester/Dr. Solomon/Mohel/Musician"), Albert M. Ottenheimer (as "Nehemiah/The Rabbi/Sheftel, the Tailor"), Bernie Passeltiner (as "Reb Todrus/Fulcha/Laibish/The Cantor/Messenger/Musician"), Natalie Priest (as "Frumka, Hadass' Mother"), Reuben Schafer (as "Reb Nata/The Shamus/Zelig"), Madeline Shaw (as "Zelda-Leah/Shimmel"), John V. Shea (as "Avigdor"), Michael James Stratford (as "Dovid/Yitzhok/Musician"), Diane Tarleton (as "Finkl/Berel"). Understudies: Herman O. Arbeit (as "Mordecai/Reb Todrus"), Mary Ellen Ashley (as "Frumka, Pesheh/Yachna"), Robin Bartlett (as "Yentl"), Stephen dePietri (as "Lemmel"), David Eric (as "Fulcha/Messenger"), Richard Manheim (as "Chaim/Dovid/Shmuel"), Leland Moss (as "Reb Nata"), Bernie Passeltiner (as "Reb Alter/The Rabbi/Wedding Jester/Zelig"), Reuben Schafer (as "Feitl/Sheftel/The Cantor"), Madeline Shaw (as "Chambermaid/Necheleh/Rivka/Zlateh"), Michael James Stratford (as "Avigdor"), Diane Tarleton (as "Chambermaid/Hadass/Necheleh/Raizeleh/Zelda-Leah"). Produced by Cheryl Crawford, Moe Septee, The Chelsea Theater Center (Robert Kalfin: Artistic Director. Michael David: Executive Director) and Mrs. Victor H. Potamkin. Associate Producer: Paul B. Berkowsky. Produced on film as Yentl (1983). Theatre Owned and Operated by Nancy Enterprises Inc. (Neil Simon, who had no artistic involvement with this production).
- (1975) Stage Play: Checking Out.
- (1982) [Off Broadway] Stage Play: Little Shop of Horrors. Orpheum Theatre on Broadway in New York City with Ellen Greene, Lee Wilkof, Franc Luz, Sheila Kay Davis, Leilani Jones, Jennifer Leigh Warren, Martin P. Robinson, and Ron Taylor in the cast. Howard Ashman was director.
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