JR's Broadway Lighting Credits

Jean Rosenthal's

Broadway Lighting Credits

The designs for the titles which appear in bold type face are included in the Jean Rosenthal Collection at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research.
1942
Rosalinda
1943
Richard III
1946
The Haven
1947
The Medium and The Telephone
1948
Joy to the World
Sundown Beach
1949
Caesar and Cleopatra
1952
The Climate of Eden
1954
Carousel (Revival at the NY City Center )
Fledermaus
House of Flowers
Ondine
Quadrille
The Saint of Bleecker Street
Showboat (Revival at the NY City Center )
1955
The Time of Your Life (Revival at the NY City Center )
1956
The Great Sebastian
The King and I (Revival at the NY City Center )
Kiss Me Kate (Revival at the NY City Center )
1957
The Beggar's Opera (Revival at the NY City Center )
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs(Bus and Truck, not Broadway plot)
The Duchess of Malfi (Revival at the Pheonix Theatre )
A Hole in the Head
Jamaica
Measure for Measure (Revival at the Pheonix Theatre )
Othello (Revival at the Pheonix Theatre )
Taming of the Shrew (Revival at the Pheonix Theatre )
West Side Story
1958
The Disenchanted
The King and I (Revival at the NY City Center )
Winesburg, Ohio
1959
Destry Rides Again
Juniper and the Pagans (Closed out of town)
Redhead
Saratoga
The Sound of Music
Take Me Along
1960
Becket
Caligula
Dear Liar
Henry IV, part 1 (Revival at the Pheonix Theatre )
Henry IV, part 2 (Revival at the Pheonix Theatre )
A Taste of Honey
1961
The Conquering Hero
Daughter of Silence
The Gay Life
The Night of the Iguana
1962
A Gift of Time
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Lord Pengo
1963
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Barefoot in the Park
The Beast in Me
Jennie
On an Open Roof
1964
The Chinese Prime Minister
Fiddler on the Roof
Hamlet
Hello, Dolly!
Incident at Vichy (At the Lincoln Center )
Luv
Poor Bitos
1965
Baker Street
The Country Wife (Revival at Lincoln Center )
Hot September (Closed out of town)
Maurice Chevalier at 77
The Odd Couple
1966
The Apple Tree
Cabaret
Happly Never After
I Do! I Do!
Ivanov
Show Boat (Revival at the Lincoln Center )
The Star Spangled Girl
A Time for Singing
1967
Freaking Out of Stephanie Black (Closed during previews)
Illya Darling
1968:
The Exercise
The Happy Time
Leda Had A Little Swan (Closed during previews)
Plaza Suite
Weekend
1969
Dear World

The last Broadway show to close carrying a "Lighting by Jean Rosenthal" credit was Fiddler on the Roof which ended its 3,242 performance run on July 2, 1972, three years after her death.

The 1980 Broadway revival of West Side Story at the Minskoff Theatre also carried the "Lighting by Jean Rosenthal" credit.

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Sources:
The Best Plays of...series. 1942 to present.
Owen, Bobbi. Scenic Design on Broadway, Designers and Their Credits. New York: Greenwood Press. 1991.
Rosenthal, Jean and Lael Wertenbacker. The Magic of Light. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1972.