Mr. Wonderful

... Staging (Entire Production)

Jack Donohue (ii)

Cast

... Hal	Hal Loman
... Rita Romano	Chita Rivera
... Audition Annie	Pat Wilkes
... Fred Campbell	Jack Carter
... Lil Campbell	Pat Marshall
... Mr. Foster	Malcolm Lee Beggs
... Uncle	Will Mastin
... Dad	Sammy Davis, Sr.
... Charlie Welch	Sammy Davis, Jr.
... Ethel Pearson	Olga James

Act One

Act Two

Additional Musical Numbers Lists

These song lists document any changes that the production went through aside from the opening night song list.

• Post-Opening Song List

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After the list of musical numbers, it was noted in the playbill that the following songs were heard in "The Audition" (in Act I, Scene 5) and "The Act" (in Act II, Scene 5), with the writers of the songs listed in parentheses after the titles:

• "Sing, You Sinners" (Sam Coslow, W. Frank Harling)
• "Daddy, Uncle and Me" (Sid Culler)
• "Because of You" (Arthur Hammerstein)
• "That Old Black Magic" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer)
• "Birth of the Blues" (Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson)
• "It's All Right With Me" (Cole Porter)

It was then noted that in Act II, Scene 5, these two songs were also heard:

• "Dearest" (Benny Davis, Harry Akst)
• "Liza" (George and Ira Gershwin, Gus Kahn)

Main Run

• Broadway Theatre (New York, NY)
  March 22, 1956 - February 23, 1957

Tryout

• Shubert Theatre (Philadelphia, PA)
  February 18, 1956 - March 12, 1956

Commercial Recordings

• Original Broadway Cast (1956)
  Ann Buckles , Hal Loman , Richard Curry , Rina Falcone , Chita Rivera

Private Recordings

• No private audio listed yet.

Broadcast Recordings

• No broadcast audio listed yet.

Archival Recordings

• No archival audio listed yet.