PlayComedy Play with musicOriginalBroadway
Opening Date
Apr 03, 1958
Closing Date
Jan 17, 1959
Performances
332
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ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION

Theatres
ANTA Playhouse
(Apr 03, 1958 - Dec 06, 1958)
Martin Beck Theatre
(Dec 08, 1958 - Jan 17, 1959)
Description
A comedy about a musical in three acts and fourteen scenes
Setting
Airport in Corn County; Hackett & Snow's Office in the Big City; Stamford; Irene Lovelle's Apartment; New Haven; Idlewild Airport in New York.
Theatre Owned / Operated by ANTA, Inc.; Managing Director for the ANTA Theatre: Louis A. Lotito
Produced by Jule Styne and Lester Osterman, Jr.; Associate Producer: George Gilbert
Book by Richard Bissell, Abe Burrows and Marian Bissell; Based on the best-selling novel by Richard Bissell; Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green; Dance arrangements by Peter Howard
Directed by Abe Burrows; Dances by Matt Mattox
Designed by Oliver Smith; Costume Design by Alvin Colt; Lighting Design by Peggy Clark; Assistant Designer to Oliver Smith: Robert O'Hearn; Assistant Designer to Alvin Colt: Stanley Simmons
General Manager: Sylvia Herscher; Business Manager: Michael Goldreyer
Production Stage Manager: Robert Downing; Stage Manager: Daniel S. Broun; Assistant Stage Mgr: Michael Wettach
At the pianos: Colin Romoff and Peter Howard
Press Representative: John L. Toohey; Advertising: Lawrence Weiner; Assistant to Abe Burrows: Evelyn Greene; Assistant Casting: Daphne Mayo
Vivian Blaine
Irene Lovelle
Johnny Desmond
Rudy Lorraine
David Wayne
Jack Jordan
Wana Allison
Arlene McKee
 
Kid in the Show
Gordon B. Clarke
Mr. Schneider
Steve Condos
Sammy Miles
Jerome Cowan
Richard Hackett
Marcella Dodge
Kid in the Show
Robert Downing
Charlie Williams
Constance Ford
Frankie Jordan
Elliott Gould
Earl Jorgeson
 
Kid in the Show
Mitchell Gregg
Rex Dexter
Peter Howard
Sideman
 
Accompanist
Barbara Hoyt
Kid in the Show
Walter Klavun
Morty Krebs
Kelly Leigh
Joyce
 
Kid in the Show
Eileen Letchworth
June
The Secretary
Jack Manning
Pilot Roy Peters
Julie Marlowe
Kid in the Show
Wendell Marshall
Sideman
Virginia Martin
Cheryl Merrill
Jean Mattox
Jennifer Stevenson
 
Tatiana
 
Kid in the Show
Matt Mattox
Boris Reshevsky
Horace McMahon
Schatzie Harris
Charles Morrell
Kid in the Show
Carolyn Morris
Kid in the Show
Robert Morse
Ted Snow
Jack Naughton
Photographer
 
Waiter
Colin Romoff
Maurice
A Pianist
Richard Tone
Kid in the Show
Calvin von Reinhold
Kid in the Show
Understudies: Gordon B. Clarke (Schatzie Harris, Morty Krebs), Bill Heyer (Rudy Lorraine), Walter Klavun (Richard Hackett), Eileen Letchworth (Frankie Jordan), Jack Manning (Jack Jordan), Virginia Martin (Irene Lovelle), Jack Naughton (Ted Snow) and Richard Tone (Boris Reshevsky)

ANTA Playhouse (Apr 03, 1958 - Dec 06, 1958)

Cast

Eddie Albert
Jack Jordan
Wana Allison
Joyce
Marcella Dodge
Tatiana
Hal England
Photographer
Kelly Leigh
June
The Secretary
Lou Stein
Sideman
Paula Wayne
Cheryl Merrill

Martin Beck Theatre (Dec 08, 1958 - Jan 17, 1959)

music by Adolph Green, Betty Comden and Jule Styne; lyrics by Adolph Green, Betty Comden and Jule Styne
Act 1
Try to Love Me
It's Doom
The Husking Bee
Act 2
It's the Second Time You Meet That Matters
Chief of Love
Say, Darling
The Carnival Song
Act 3
Try to Love Me
Dance Only with Me
Something's Always Happening on the River

Tony Award®

 

Best Featured Actor in a Play

1959 Nominee
Robert Morse

Theatre World

Award

1958 Recipient
Robert Morse
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