Release Date: 1956-05-28
Overview: In 1956, BLOOMER GIRL was presented in a live television production starring the magnificent Barbara Cook, whose star was then on the rise, with leading roles in CANDIDE and THE MUSIC MAN still in her future. A solid success when it opened on Broadway in 1944, BLOOMER GIRL boasts a glorious score by the legendary team of Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg (THE WIZARD OF OZ). The book by Fred Saidy is set at the brink of the Civil War and addresses issues of women's equality (priorities were the right to vote and to wear bloomers, a liberating alternative to hoop skirts) and racial equality.
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Barbara Cook
as Evelina Applegate
Keith Andes
as Jefferson Calhoun
Carmen Mathews
as Dolly Bloomer
Paul Ford
as Horatio Applegate
Rawn Spearman
as Pompey
Sig Herzig - Theatre Play
Alex Segal - Director
Fred Saidy - Theatre Play
Agnes de Mille - Choreographer
Alex Segal - Producer
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