The Richard Rodgers Theatre
…December. On Christmas Eve, a new version of the Greenwich Village Follies opened and stayed until March, followed by the reopening of Is Zat So? on March 15, 1926. In the 1940s, Ethel Merman starred in Cole Porter’s Panama Hattie. A few other hugely successful shows were Dark of the Moon, Finian’s Rainbow, and One Touch of Venus featuring Mary Martin. The 1950s began with Morton Gould and Dorothy Fields’s Arms and the Girl with Nanette Fabray, Pe…