This loosely chronological list of performances, as presented on stage, screen or via broadcast, includes most of those mentioned or discussed within the text of Latin Numbers: Playing Latino in 20th Century Popular Performance by Brian Eugenio Herrera.
1930s & before
|
stage
• Abie's Irish Rose : Anne Nichols : New York, 1922-27 • Show Boat : Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II : Ziegfeld Theatre, New York, 1927-29 • Fast and Furious : Mack Gordon & Gordon Revel : d. Forbes Randolph : New York, 1931 • Marriage of Cana : Julian L. McDonald : d. Anatol Bendukov : Provincetown Players : New York, 1932 • John Henry : Juano Hernandez : Orpheum Theatre : New York, 1934 • Macbeth : d. Orson Welles : Federal Theatre Project/Lafayette Theatre : New York, 1936 • Awhile to Work : Melchior Ferrer : Theatre Intime, Princeton, 1937 • Pins and Needles : Harold Rome : Labor Stage Theatre, New York, 1937. • You Never Know : Cole Porter & Rowland Leigh : New York, 1938 • The Straw Hat Revue : Sylvia Fine, James Shelton & Max Liebman : d. Max Liebman : New York, 1939 • Too Many Girls : George Marion Jr., Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart : George Abbott : New York, 1939-40 |
screen
• The Girl from Chicago (d. Oscar Micheaux: Micheaux Pictures Corp., 1932) • Flying Down to Rio (d. Thornton Freeland: RKO, 1933) • Alexander's Ragtime Band (d. Henry King: Fox, 1938) • Gone with the Wind (d. Victor Fleming: Selznick/MGM, 1939) |
broadcast
• John Henry - Black River Boat Giant, CBS-Radio (1933) • Jack Armstrong - The All-American Boy, CBS/NBC/Mutual/Blue Network/ABC (1933-1951) • Calvacade of America, CBS-Radio (1935-39) |
1940s
|
stage
• Cue for Passion : Edward Chodorov & Hy S. Kraft : d. Otto Preminger: New York, 1940 • My Sister Eileen : Joseph A. Fields & Jerome Chodorov : d. George S. Kaufman : New York, 1940-43 • Good Neighbor : Jack Levin : d. Sinclair Lewis, 1941. • Her Cardboard Lover : Wyngate/Wodehouse from Deval : d. John C. Wilson, Westport Country Playhouse, 1941. • Our Betters : M. Somerset Maugham : New Central Theatre (Cedarhurst NY), Theatre-By-The-Sea (Matunuck RI) & other venues, 1941. • Viva O'Brien : Maria Grever & Raymond Leveen : New York, 1941 • Let Freedom Sing : Harold Rome & Samuel Locke : New York, 1942 • This Is The Army : Irving Berlin & others; d. Sgt. Ezra Stone : New York, 1942 • Stars and Gripes - Fort Hamilton All-Soldier Show : Harold Rome & Ace Goodrich : War Department, Brooklyn, 1943. • Lady in the Dark : Kurt Weill & Ira Gershwin : d. Moss Hart : Alvin Theatre, New York, 1944. • Skirts - An All-American Musical Adventure : Harold Rome & Frank Loesser : Special Service Section, Cambridge Theatre, London, 1944. • Strange Fruit : Lillian Smith : d. José Ferrer : New York, 1945-46. • Annie Get Your Gun : Irving Berlin, Herbert Fields & Dorothy Fields : New York, 1946-49 • Call Me Mister : Harold Rome & Arnold Auerbach : New York, 1946-48 • Set My People Free : Dorothy Heyward : New York, 1948 |
screen
• Down Argentine Way (d. Irving Cummings, 20th Century Fox, 1940) • Too Many Girls (d. George Abbott: RKO 1940) • "He's a Latin from Staten Island" (DCA, 1941) • That Night in Rio (d. Irving Cummings: 20th Century Fox 1941) • Weekend in Havana (d. Walter Lang: 20th Century Fox, 1941) • My Sister Eileen (d. Alexander Hall: Columbia, 1942) • Saludos Amigos (d. various: Disney/RKO, 1942) • Santa (d. Norman Foster y Alfredo Gómez de la Vega: Juan de la Cruz Alarcón, 1943) • Broadway Rhythm (d. Roy Del Ruth: MGM, 1944) • The Three Caballeros (d. Norman Ferguson: Disney/RKO, 1944) • Fiesta (d. Richard Thorpe: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1947) • Ride the Pink Horse (d. Robert Montgomery: Universal, 1947) • Joan of Arc (d. Victor Fleming: RKO, 1948) • Battleground (d. William A. Wellman: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1949) • Intruder in the Dust (d. Clarence Brown: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1949) • Lost Boundaries (d. Alfred L. Werker : Film Classics, 1949) • Neptune's Daughter (d. Edward Buzzell: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1949) |
broadcast
• Calvacade of America, NBC-Radio (1940-53) • The Eternal Light, NBC-Radio (1944-89) |
1950s
|
stage
• Call Me Madam : Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse & Irving Berlin : d. George Abbott : New York, 1950-52 • Wonderful Town : Jerome A. Fields, Jerome Chodorov, Betty Comden, Adolph Green & Leonard Bernstein : d. George Abbott, New York : 1953-54 • Othello : As Adapted by Juano Hernandez : New York and various, 1953 & thereafter. • Seventh Heaven : Victor Young & Stella Unger : New York, 1955. • Dino - Based on the Television Play : Kristen Sergel : Illinois, 1956. • Jamaica : Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg & Fred Saidy : New York : 1957-59 • The Music Man : Meredith Willson : New York, 1957-61 • West Side Story : Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein & Sondheim : d. Jerome Robbins : New York, 1957-61 |
screen
• Born to Be Bad (d. Nicholas Ray: RKO, 1950) • The Brave Bulls (d. Robert Rossen: Columbia, 1950) • Breaking Point (d. Michael Curtiz: Warner Bros, 1950) • Cyrano De Bergerac (d. Michael Gordon: Stanley Kramer Productions/United Artists, 1950) • Mystery Street (d. John Sturges: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1950) • Stars in My Crown (d. William Wright: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1950) • Two Weeks with Love (d. Roy Rowland, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1950) • Young Man with a Horn (d. Michael Curtiz: Warner Bros., 1950) • Across the Wide Missouri (d. William Wellman : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1951) • High Noon (d. Fred Zinnemann: United Artist, 1952) • My Man and I (d. William Wellman: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1952) • Rancho Notorious (d. Fritz Lang: RKO, 1952) • Broken Lance (d. Edward Dmytryk: 20th Century Fox, 1953) • Latin Lovers (d. Mervyn LeRoy: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1953) • Saadia (d. Albert Lewin: Metr0-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1953) • Sombrero (d. Norman Foster: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1953) • There's No Business Like Show Business (d. Walter Lang: 20th Century Fox, 1954) • My Sister Eileen (d. Richard Quine: Columbia, 1955) • Trial (d. Mark Robson: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1955) • Los amantes del desierto [aka Desert Lovers and/or Desert Warriors] (d. Giofreddo Alessandrini: Rialto Film, 1956/57) • The King and I (d. Walter Lang : 20th Century Fox, 1956) • Ransom! (d. Alex Segal: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1956) • The Delicate Delinquent (d. Don McGuire: Paramount, 1957) • The Delinquents (d. Robert Altman: Altman/United Artists, 1957) • Dino (d. Thomas Carr: Allied Artists, 1957) • Imitation of Life (d. Douglas Sirk: Universal, 1957) • Mark of the Hawk (d. Michael Aubley: Universal-International, 1957) • Sayonara (d. Joshua Logan: Warner Bros., 1957) • St. Louis Blues (d. Robert Smith : Paramount, 1957) • The Sun Also Rises (d. Henry King: 20th Century Fox, 1957) • Machete (d. Kurt Neumann: Neumman/United Artists 1958) • Cry Tough (d. Paul Stanley: United Artists, 1959) • The World, The Flesh & The Devil (d. Ranald MacDougall: MGM, 1959) |
broadcast
• Amos 'n' Andy, CBS-TV (1951-53) • "Conquest of Mexico - 1519" : You Are There, CBS-TV (5 April 1953) : Season 1, Episode 10, Written by Jeremy Daniel • The Loretta Young Show, NBC-TV (1953-61) • Broken Arrow, ABC-TV (1956-60) • "Dino" : Studio One in Hollywood, CBS-TV (2 January 1956): Season 8, Episode 16, Written by Reginald Rose • "The Jean Le Bec Story" : Wagon Train, NBC-TV (25 September 1957) : Season 1, Episode 2, Written by Dwight Newton & Sidney Langster • "Fiesta at Midnight" : Decoy, Syndicated (19 May 1958) : Season 1, Episode 32, Written by Jerome Coopersmith. • "Fair Exchange" : Father Knows Best, CBS-TV (24 November 1958) : Season 5, Episode 10, Written by Roswell Rogers. • "Tonight in Havana" : Colgate Theatre, NBC-TV (2 September 1958) : Written by David Ahlers. |
1960s
|
stage
• West Side Story : Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim : d. Gerald Freedman, New York : 1964 • Los Vendidos : Luis Valdez : El Teatro Campesino, East Los Angeles : 1967 |
screen
• Sergeant Rutledge (d. John Ford : Warner Bros., 1960) • The Sins of Rachel Cade (d. Gordon Douglas : Warner Bros., 1961) • West Side Story (d. Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins: Wise/United Artists, 1961) • The Pawnbroker (d. Sidney Lumet : Allied Artists / American International Pictures, 1964/5). • Zorba the Greek (d. Michael Cacoyannis: 20th Century Fox, 1964) • One Million Years B.C. (d. Don Chaffey : Warner-Pathé/20th Century Fox, 1966) • Bandolero! (d. Andrew V. McLagen: 20th Century Fox, 1968) • 100 Rifles (d. Tom Gries: 20th Century Fox, 1969) • The Reivers (d. Mark Rydell : National General Pictures, 1969) |
broadcast
• The Flying Nun, ABC-TV (1967-70) • High Chapparal, NBC-TV (1967-71) • "Space Seed" : Star Trek, CBS-TV (16 February 1967) : Season 1, Episode 22, Written by Gene L. Coon & Carey Wilber. |
1970s
|
stage
• Don Juan in Hell : George Bernard Shaw : d. John Houseman, New York, 1973. • Short Eyes : Miguel Piñero : d. Marvin Felix Camillo, New York, 1974. • A Chorus Line : James Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante, Edward Kleban & Marvin Hamlisch : d. Michael Bennett, New York : 1975-90 • The Ritz : Terrence McNally : New York : 1975-76. • Beautiful Señoritas : Dolores Prida : Teatro Duo, New York : 1977 • Zoot Suit : Luis Valdez : Los Angeles : 1978 |
screen
• They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (d. Sidney Poitier: United Artists/Mirisch, 1970) • Foxy Brown (d. Jack Hill: Buzz Feitshans/American International Pictures, 1974) • Car Wash (d. Michael Schultz: Universal, 1976) • Next Stop, Greenwich Village (d. Paul Mazursky: 20th Century Fox, 1976) • The Ritz (d. Richard Lester: Warner Bros. 1976) • Short Eyes (d. Robert M. Young: Film League, 1977) • Pretty Baby (d. Louis Malle: Malle/Platt/Paramount, 1978) • The Concorde... Aiport '79 (d. David Lowell Lynch: Universal, 1979) |
broadcast
• Chico and the Man, NBC-TV (1974-78) • Starsky and Hutch, ABC-TV (1975-79) • Viva Valdez, ABC-TV (1976) • Charo and the Sergeant, ABC-TV (24 August 1976) • Fantasy Island, ABC-TV (1977-84) • The Love Boat, ABC-TV (1977-87) |
1980s
|
stage
• Rancho Hollywood : Carlos Morton : 1980 • West Side Story : Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim : d. Jerome Robbins, New York: 1980 • As Is : William M. Hoffman : New York: 1985-86. • The Normal Heart : Larry Kramer : New York : 1985-86. • Cuba and His Teddy Bear : Reinaldo Povod : d. Bill Hart, New York : 1986 • Jerker : William Chesley : West Hollywood : 1986 • Roosters : Micha Sanchez-Scott : New York : 1986/7 • La Puta Vida : Reinaldo Povod : New York : 1987 |
screen
• Cruising (d. William Friedkin: Lorimar/United Artists/MGM, 1980) • Zorro, the Gay Blade (d. Peter Medak: 20th Century Fox, 1981) • Making Love (d. Arthur Hiller: 20th Century Fox, 1982) • Victor/Victoria (d. Blake Edwards: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1982) • Star Trek II - The Wrath of Kahn (d. Nicholas Meyer: Paramount, 1982) • Band of the Hand (d. Paul Michael Glaser: TriStar, 1985) • Doña Herlinda and Her Son (d. Jaime Humberto Hermosillo: Clasa Films Mundiales/CineVista, 1985) • Kiss of the Spider Woman (d. Hector Babenco: 1985) • Parting Glances (d. Bill Sherwood: Cinecom, 1985/6) • *batteries not included (d. Matthew Robbins: Amblin, 1987) • Gaby - A True Story (d. Luis Mandoki: TriStar, 1987) • Stand and Deliver (d. Ramón Menéndez: Warner Brothers, 1988) |
broadcast
• Falcon Crest, CBS-TV (1981-90) • Miami Vice, NBC-TV (1984-90) • Consenting Adult, ABC-TV (5 February 1985) • An Early Frost, NBC-TV (11 November 1985) • "Killing All the Right People": Designing Women, CBS-TV (5 October 1987) : Season 2, Episode 4, Written by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason |
1990s
|
stage
• Mambo Mouth : John Leguizamo : New York, 1990-91. • Real Women Have Curves : Josefina López : San Francisco, 1990. • The Have-Little : Migdalia Cruz : New York, 1991 • The Couple in the Cage : Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Coco Fusco, 1992 • Heroes and Saints : Cherie Moraga : San Francisco, 1992. • Fur : Migdalia Cruz: New York, 1995 • Love! Valour! Compassion! : Terrence McNally : New York, 1995 • Rent : Jonathan Larsen : d. Michael Greif, 1996-2008 |
screen
• Longtime Companion (d. Norman René: Samuel Goldwyn, 1990) • Philadelphia (d. Jonathan Demme: TriStar, 1993) • To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (d. Beeban Kidron: Amblin/Universal, 1995) • The Birdcage (d. Mike Nichols: Nichols/TriStar, 1996) • Selena (d. Gregory Nava: Warner Bros., 1997) • Billy 2000 - Billy Goes to Hollywood (d. John Travis: Studio 2000, 1998) |
broadcast
• Real World: San Francisco, MTV-TV (30 June 1994 - 10 November 1994) • My So-Called Life, ABC-TV (1994-95) • "Soup Nazi" : Seinfeld, NBC-TV (2 November 1995) : Season 7, Episode 6, Written by Spike Feresten • "The Sponge" : Seinfeld, NBC-TV (7 December 1995) : Season 7, Episode 9, Written by Peter Mehlman • "The Puerto Rican Day" : Seinfeld, NBC-TV (7 May 1998) : Season 9, Episode 20, Written by staff • "Cuba Gooding Jr./Ricky Martin" : Saturday Night Live, NBC-TV (8 May 1999): Season 24, Episode 18, Written by Tina Fey (head writer). |
2000s & beyond
|
stage
• West Side Story : Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim, with translations by Lin-Manuel Miranda : d. Arthur Laurents : New York, 2009-11 |
screen
• Legally Blonde (Robert Luketic: MGM, 2001) |
broadcast
• American Family, PBS-TV (2002-04) • Project Runway, Bravo-TV (2004-08) & Lifetime-TV (2009- ) • RuPaul's Drag Race, LOGO-TV (2009- ) |