Barbara Cook
Evelina Applegate
Bloomer Girl (1956)
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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.
Alex Segal
Director
Top Billed Cast
Keith Andes
Jefferson Calhoun
Carmen Mathews
Dolly Bloomer
Paul Ford
Horatio Applegate
Rawn Spearman
Pompey
Nydia Westman
Serena Applegate
Patricia Hammerlee
Daisy
Brock Peters
Alexander
Dorothy Lang
Applegate Sister
Margot Moser
Applegate Sister
Peggy O'Hara
Applegate Sister
Elise Rhodes
Octavia Applegate
Paula Stewart
Julia Applegate
Heywood Hale Broun
Sheriff
Paul McGrath
Governor Newton
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