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

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
Irene Lovelle
Rudy Lorraine
Jack Jordan
Arlene McKee
 
Kid in the Show
Mr. Schneider
Sammy Miles
Richard Hackett
Kid in the Show
Charlie Williams
Frankie Jordan
Earl Jorgeson
 
Kid in the Show
Rex Dexter
Sideman
 
Accompanist
Kid in the Show
Morty Krebs
Joyce
 
Kid in the Show
June
The Secretary
Pilot Roy Peters
Kid in the Show
Cheryl Merrill
Jennifer Stevenson
 
Tatiana
 
Kid in the Show
Boris Reshevsky
Schatzie Harris
Kid in the Show
Kid in the Show
Ted Snow
Photographer
 
Waiter
Maurice
A Pianist
Kid in the Show
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

Jack Jordan
Joyce
Tatiana
Photographer
June
The Secretary
Sideman
Cheryl Merrill

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

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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