The run closed May 8, 1976
- Opened
- May 4, 1976
- Closed
- May 8, 1976
- Performances
- 7
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Mark Hellinger Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 479th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it47 named
Allyne Dechalus
Ralph Farnworth
Linda Griffin
Carl Hall
Bob Heath
Louise Heath
Bruce A Hubbard
Kris Karlowski
Urylee Leonardos
Joyce Macdonald
Hector Jaime Mercado
Diana Mirras
Janette Moody
Alexander Orfaly
Cleveland Pennington
Sharon Powers
Cornel J Richie
Randolph Riscol
Howard Ross
Juliet Seignious
Reid Shelton
Thomas J Stanton
Edwin Steffe
Clayton Strange
Martha Thigpen
David E Thomas
Mimi B Wallace
Lee Winston
John Witham
20 of these 47 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 27 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Gilbert Moses, George Faison
- Choreographer
- Gilbert Moses, George Faison
- Orchestrations
- Sid Ramin, Hershy Kay
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
Styne considered Darling his "Lerner and Loewe show" and later said it had "one of the best scores I'd ever done." Harburg, always one of the theatre's wittiest lyricists, did good if overloaded work here, and Styne's music is sometimes very lovely.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue May 4, 1976 More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1089
- A clumsy musical history of the White House by no less than Alan Jay Lerner and Leonard Bernstein. It was Bernstein's final work for Broadway. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 314
- Lerner and Bernstein’s collaboration, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (5/4/76; 7 performances), was written to commemorate the American Bicentennial. The show proved to be a legendary failure. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 316
- And A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. (He also had a hand in some flops, including Seventh Heaven, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and Ankles Aweigh.) Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 130
- Bernstein took up the baton as conductor of the New York Philharmonic until 1969, creating a sensation with his vigorous, vital conducting and his popular young people’s concerts. Away from the theatre for nearly twenty years, he returned to Broadway with the troubled production 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, with a incredi… Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 324
- A potentially promising collaboration with the brilliant Leonard Bernstein in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (1976) closed within a week. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 330
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue at all.
- No director named.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.