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War Era Theater Booms On Tour And Broadway
War years revive stage life with 1944 Broadway shows and road companies thriving across the nation. Actors, writers, and crews serve, while audiences pack venues from Butte to Baton Rouge. Despite scarce manpower, tours and nonprofessional theaters struggle, yet stars rise like Alfred Alderdice while Frank Fay gains peak popularity in Harvey.
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Butte
Mont
Baton Rouge
Opry
Barn Swallows
Bob Francis
Billboard
New York Theater
Kiss
New York
Coliseum
Sioux Falls
S. Oak
Convention Hall
Enid
Ohla
Lyceum
Minneapolis
Minn
Orph
Chicago
Philadelphia
Lee Murray
Lyceum Theater
Coast
Mary Jackson
Fresno
Sacramento
Calif
Marchbanks
St. Paul
Milwaukee
Wis
Oklahoma City
Corn Palace
Mitchell, S. Dak
Kansas City Music Hall
New England
Bucks County Playhouse
Bellevue-Stratford Hotel
Pasadena Community Playhouse
Pasadena
University of Washington
Seattle
College of the Pacific
Equity
Draft Board
Hollywood
Brock Pemberton
Janie
Pemberton
Alfred Alderdice
Tom Drake
Frank Fay
Fay
Harvey
Leo G. Carroll
George Apley
Frédric March
Adano
WO Irwin Shaw
Pvt
William Saroyan