Musical Theater
- Are You With It? (Music: Harry Revel Lyrics: Arnold B. Horwitt Book: Sam Perrin and George Balzer). Broadway production opened at the Century Theatre on November 10 and ran for 266 performances.
- Billion Dollar Baby (Music: Morton Gould Book & Lyrics: Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on December 21 and ran for 220 performances. Starring Mitzi Green, Joan McCracken, William Tabbert, Danny Daniels and Shirley Van.
- Carousel (Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics and Book: Oscar Hammerstein II) - Broadway production opened at the Majestic Theatre on April 19 and ran for 890 performances.
- The Day Before Spring (Music: Frederick Loewe Lyrics and Book: Alan Jay Lerner)Broadway production opened on November 22 at the National Theatre and ran for 165 performances.
- The Firebrand of Florence (Book: Ira Gershwin & Edwin Justus Mayer, Music: Kurt Weill, Lyrics: Ira Gershwin) Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on March 22 and ran for 43 performances. Starring Lotte Lenya, Earl Wrightson, Beverly Tyler and Melville Cooper.
- Follow The Girls (Music: Phil Charig Lyrics: Dan Shapiro and Milton Pascal Book: Guy Bolton, Eddie Davis and Fred Thompson) - London production opened at Her Majesty's Theatre on October 25 and ran for 572 performances.
- Marinka Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on July 18 and moved to the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on October 1 for a total run of 165 performances
- Perchance To Dream (Music, Lyrics and Book: Ivor Novello) - London production opened at the London Hippodrome on April 21 and ran for 1022 performances.
- The Red Mill(Music: Victor Herbert Lyrics and Book: Henry Blossom). Broadway revival opened on October 16 at the Ziegfeld Theatre and ran for 531 performances.
- Sigh No More London revue opened at the Piccadilly Theatre on August 28
- Under the Counter London production opened at the Phoenix Theatre on November 22 and ran for 665 performances
- Up in Central Park (Music: Sigmund Romberg Lyrics: Dorothy Fields Book: Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields). Broadway production opened at the Century Theatre on January 27 and ran for 504 performances.
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“Then, bringing me the joy we feel when wee see a work by our favorite painter which differs from any other that we know, or if we are led before a painting of which we have until then only seen a pencil sketch, if a musical piece heard only on the piano appears before us clothed in the colors of the orchestra, my grandfather called me the [hawthorn] hedge at Tansonville, saying, “You who are so fond of hawthorns, look at this pink thorn, isn’t it lovely?””
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1984)