Say, Darling

ANTA Playhouse, (4/03/1958 - 12/06/1958)

Martin Beck Theatre, (12/08/1958 - 1/17/1959)

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Opening Date:	Apr 03, 1958
Closing Date:	Jan 17, 1959	Total Performances:	332

Category: Play, Comedy, Play with music, Original, Broadway

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.

Production Staff [See More]
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
General Manager: Sylvia Herscher; Business Manager: Michael Goldreyer
Production Stage Manager: Robert Downing; Stage Manager: Daniel S. Broun
At the pianos: Colin Romoff and Peter Howard
Press Representative: John L. Toohey; Advertising: Lawrence Weiner

Cast

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 (Morty Krebs, Schatzie Harris), 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)

Tony Award^®
1959 Best Featured Actor in a Play [nominee]
Robert Morse
Theatre World
1958 Award [recipient]
Robert Morse

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