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Tovarich

Broadway Theatre, (3/18/1963 - 6/8/1963)
Majestic Theatre, (6/10/1963 - 9/28/1963)
Winter Garden Theatre, (10/7/1963 - 11/9/1963)
Preview: Total Previews:
Opening:Mar 18, 1963   
Closing:Nov 9, 1963 Total Performances:264


Category: Musical, Comedy, Original, Broadway
Setting: Prologue: Russia. Subsequently set in Paris. Late 1920s.





by opening date


Produced by Abel Farbman and Sylvia Harris; Produced in association with Joseph Harris; Associate Producer: Monty Shaff

Book by David Shaw; Music by Lee Pockriss; Lyrics by Anne Croswell; Based on the comedy by Jacques Deval and Robert E. Sherwood; Musical Director: Stanley Lebowsky; Vocal arrangements by Stanley Lebowsky; Music orchestrated by Philip J. Lang; "You'll Make an Elegant Butler (I'll Make an Elegant Maid)" by Joan Javits and Philip Springer; Dance music composed by Lee Pockriss; Additional dance music by Dorothea Freitag; Translation of "Tovarich" from the original French of Jacques Deval by Bettina Liebowitz Knapp and Alba della Fazia; Assistant Musical Dir.: Milton Setzer

Directed by Peter Glenville; Choreographed by Herbert Ross

Production Design by Rolf Gerard; Costume Design by Motley; Lighting Design by John Harvey; Wigs by Bob Kelly; Hair styles by Phil Leto; Assistant to Motley: E. Oliver Olsen

General Manager: Monty Shaff; Company Manager: Richard Grayson

Production Manager: Jean Barrere; Stage Manager: Harry Young; Assistant Stage Mgr: Tom Abbott

Assistant Conductor: Ed Simon; Head Copyist: Thomas P. Brown; Music Contractor: Emory Davis; Music Preparation: Thomas P. Brown

Fur coats by Georges Kaplan; Assistant to the Director: Nora Kaye and Joy Small; Fencing Master: George Santelli; Press Representative: Richard Maney and Martin Shwartz; Dance Captain: Tom Abbott; Production Assistant: Delman Hendricks; Advertising: Lawrence Weiner and Associates


Opening Night Cast

Jean-Pierre Aumont Mikail  
Vivien Leigh Tatiana  
George S. Irving Charles Davis   
Louise Kirtland Grace Davis   
Alexander Scourby Gorotchenko   
Louise Troy Natalia Mayovskaya   
Tom Abbott Ballet Master  
 Count Yuriev Neglinsky  
 Dancer  
Lorenzo Bianco Essaul of Cossacks Volinin  
 Dancer  
Antony De Vecci Prince Dobrynin  
 Dancer  
Alice Evans Singer  
Marion Fels Princess Dobrynin  
 Dancer  
Carol Flemming Mme. Muratova  
 Dancer  
Michele Franchi Baroness Rasumov  
 Dancer  
Katia Geleznova Baroness Roumel  
 Dancer  
William Glassman Igor Mondovska
of the Imperial Corps of Cadets 
 
 Dancer  
Margery Gray Helen Davis  
Harald Horn The Footman at The Davis Home  
 Baron General Rosumov  
 Dancer  
Del Horstmann Singer  
Bettye Jenkins Kukla Katusha  
 Maria Soukhomine  
 Dancer  
Barney Johnston Singer  
Pat Kelly Mme. Van Hemert  
 Princess Mondovska  
 Singer  
Michael Kermoyan Admiral Boris Soukhomine  
Jeff Killion Singer  
Dale Malone Night Club Singer  
 General Boruvsky  
Don McHenry M. Chauffourier-Dubieff  
Charlene Mehl Elena Violinin  
 Dancer  
Rita Metzger Marina  
 Singer  
Paul Michael Vassily  
Byron Mitchell George Davis  
Barbara Monte Nadia  
 Katrina Volinin  
 Dancer  
Will Parkins Count Rostoff  
 Dancer  
William Reilly Ivan  
 Colonel Yarov  
 Dancer  
Barbara Richman Dancer  
Larry Roquemore Sergei  
 Prince Ossipovsky  
 Dancer  
Elliott Savage A Footman at the Grand Ball  
 Singer  
Maggie Task Louise  
 Singer  
Eleonore Treiber Mme. Van Steuben  
 Mme. Boruvsky  
 Dancer  
Joan Trona Lady Soukhomine  
 Singer  
Gene Varrone Count Ivan Shamforoff  

Standby: Joan Copeland (Tatiana).

Understudies: Carol Flemming (Helen Davis), Del Horstmann (Charles Davis, Gorotchenko, M. Chauffourier-Dubieff), Barney Johnston (Count Ivan Shamforoff), Pat Kelly (Grace Davis, Louise), Michael Kermoyan (Mikail), Jeff Killion (Admiral Boris Soukhomine, M. Chauffourier-Dubieff), Larry Roquemore (George Davis), Elliott Savage (Vassily).