Bloomer Girl
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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Cast
Barbara Cook
Keith Andes
Carmen Mathews
Paul Ford
Rawn Spearman
Nydia Westman
Patricia Hammerlee
Brock Peters
Dorothy Lang
Margot Moser
Peggy O'Hara
Elise Rhodes
Paula Stewart
Heywood Hale Broun
Paul McGrath
Frank Overton
Jack Russell
Danny Scholl
James Mitchell
Lidija Franklin
Betty Low
Emy St. Just
