WORDS
Gertrude Stein
MUSIC
Virgil Thomson
SCENARIO
Maurice Grosser
PRODUCTION
John Houseman
CHOREOGRAPHY
Frederick Ashton
SCENERY
Created by Florine Stettheimer, designed by Kate Drain Lawson
SINGERS
Commère: Altonel Hines; Compère: Abner Dorsey; St Ignatius: Edward Matthews; St Theresa I: Beatrice Robinson Wayne; St Theresa II: Bruce Howard; St Chavez: Embry Bowner; St Settlement: Bertha Fitzhugh Baker
DANCERS
Caro Lynn Baker, Elizabeth Dickerson, Mable Hart, Floyd Miller, Maxwell Baird, Billie Smith
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Presented by The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT, 7 February 1934; by Harry Moses, 44th Street Theater, New York, 20 February 1934; transferred to the Empire Theater, New York, 1 April 1934; revived at the Auditorium Theater, Chicago IL, 7 November 1934
Copyright © 2004 by David Vaughan
This listing is part of a chronology that was originally published in Vaughan’s Frederick Ashton and His Ballets (Alfred E Knopf 1976; 2nd ed., London: Dance Books, 1999) and includes new productions added since then, and up until 2007