The run closed May 15, 1971
- Opened
- April 15, 1971
- Closed
- May 15, 1971
- Performances
- 36
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadhurst Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 315th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it22 named
Marjorie Leach
Abby Lewis
Steve Mills
Naomi Price
Beau Tilden
Bobbi Tremain
Jay Velie
15 of these 22 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 7 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.
Characters10 roles recorded
Mildred Natwick Ida Dodd
Lillian Roth Gert Appleby
Lillian Hayman Melba Jones
Lucie Lancaster Eunice Miller
Goldye Shaw Fritzi Clews
Hans Conried Harry Hardwick
Gil Lamb Walter Hatfield
Tommy Breslin Eddie
Dorothea Freitag Lorraine
Henrietta Jacobson Sadie
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Paul Aaron
- Choreographer
- Onna White
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.
Recordings 2 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against 70, Girls, 70, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
Director Paul Aaron (who had already been dismissed from 70, Girls, 70) was replaced by Alan Arkin after Michael Bennett, Morton Da Costa, and Burt Shevelove declined to take over.
I have never been able to walk out on Broadway musicals because something in my nice-Jewish-boy background told me that respect must be paid when the financial investment is so great. We are supposed to be embarrassed by such instincts, and I duly am, admitting them only now that 70, Girls, 70 had the negative power to overcome the near overwhelming strength of my conditioning. More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 841
'That’s a swell number.' Ebb replied, ‘Well, you better get the hell out there, you’re in it.’
Speaker not recorded. Show and Tell the New Book of Broadway Anecdotes Ken Bloom Bloom Ken Oxford Univ, p. 135- Burns collapsed in the wings and died at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia after performing his “Go Visit Your Grandmother” showstopper. Undeniably sad, but somehow fitting for a man who spent nearly fifty years entertaining with his bluster. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 131
- Her last Broadway job was as understudy to Mildred Natwick and Lillian Roth in the short-lived 70, Girls, 70 (1971). Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 202
- In addition, she had unfortunate luck in the 1970s (aside from her witty, low-key musical staging in the hit / Love My Wife) with such credits as 70, Girls, 70; Goodtime Charley; and Working. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 210
- After the dismal Boston opening, they brought in Alan Arkin (director of Neil Simon’s 1972 hit, The Sunshine Boys) and Grover Dale (last seen in Detroit, being nudged off the 1973 Seesaw), as well as writer/doctors Murray Schisgal and Norman Martin. So much for salvage. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 641
- Whitelaw’s first Broadway show was also an enormous moneymaker, the 1969 Butterflies Are Free (starring—guess who—Eileen Heckart), but he followed it in quick succession with expensive failures Minnies Boys (1970) and 70, Girls, 70 (1971). More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 966
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.
- Which of the 2 recordings of 70, Girls, 70 document this run, if any.
- No director named.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.