{"id":17772,"date":"2022-12-05T19:28:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T19:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=17772"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:20","slug":"billy-wilson-orbit-bells-are-ringing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2022\/12\/05\/billy-wilson-orbit-bells-are-ringing\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Wilson Orbit: Bells Are Ringing\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Billy Wilson and <\/span>Bells Are Ringing\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/h2>\n
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Return Back to Billy Wilson’s orbit in The Constellation Project<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Billy Wilson performed Bells are Ringing<\/em> after his big debut performance in <\/span>Carmen Jones<\/span><\/i>. Bells are Ringing<\/em> was a Broadway musical which opened at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre on November 29, 1956. Billy was the only black dancer in the entire cast. This was the beginnings of Billy Wilson\u2019s career on Broadway<\/span><\/p>\n

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Right Picture: Billy Wilson
\nPicture Below:Cast listing with\u00a0 including Billy Wilson as \u201cDancers: Boys\u201d<\/p>\n

Sources:\u00a0<\/strong>
\nBells Are Ringing<\/em> (Broadway, Sam S. Shubert Theatre, 1956) | Playbill<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
\nBilly Wilson<\/span><\/a>
\nBilly Wilson \u2013 MOBBallet.org<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"More About Bells Are Ringing:<\/em><\/b><\/h2>\n

Bells are Ringing<\/em> stars Judy Holiday where the plot is about an answering service operator who gets a little too involved in the lives of her clients, particularly a procrastinating playwright whom she falls for. Mistaken identity and misadventures follow in this Jule Styne-Comden and Green musical comedy.<\/span>
\nLYRICS: BETTY COMDEN, ADOLPH GREEN<\/span>
\nBOOK: BETTY COMDEN, ADOLPH GREEN<\/span>
\nMUSIC: JULE STYNE<\/span>
\nSources:<\/strong>
\nBells Are Ringing<\/em> (Broadway, Sam S. Shubert Theatre, 1956), Playbill<\/span><\/a>
\nBilly Wilson \u2013 MoBBallet.org<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Daisy Rosalez<\/p>\n

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