The run closed March 25, 1962
- Opened
- January 27, 1962
- Closed
- March 25, 1962
- Performances
- 65
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Nederlander Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 242nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of A Family Affair 1 more that season
| 1946 | Playhouse Theatre Original · Alexander Kirkland | 6 perf. |
Who was in it37 named
Jack de Lon
Yettanda Enelow
Randy Garfield
Sam Greene
Jeremy Ives
Bob Lacrosse
Gary Leatherman
Ripple Lewis
Bill Linton
Joan Lowe
Bill Mcdonald
Alice Nunn
Kelli Scott
Carolsue Shaer
Maggie Task
Beryl Towbin
Paula Trueman
Barbara Ann Walters
Judi West
18 of these 37 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 19 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
- Harold Prince
- Choreographer
- John Butler, John
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
A Family Affair, originally optioned by Leland Hayward, who had Jerome Robbins to direct it and Gertrude Berg interested in starring, is best remembered as the first directorial job of Harold Prince.
- Kert introduced the lovely “There’s a Room in My House” in A Family Affair and (briefly) joined the cast of Breakfast at Tiffany's after Edward Albee overhauled the show. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 325
- Larry Kert—juvenile of Prince’s West Side Story and A Family Affair (1962), more recently languishing in Breakfast at Tiffany’ (1966) and La Strada (1969)—stepped into the role and made it (ambiguously) his. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 218
- Following Griffith’s death, he directed A Family Affair (1962) and produced A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), She Loves Me (1963), and Fiddler on the Roof (1964). More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1103
- The authors of A FAMILY AFFAIR had never done a Broadway show, the producer had never done a Broadway show, the director—Word Baker of THE FANTASTICKS [Schmidt: May 3, 1960]—had never done a Broadway show, even the choreographer had never done a Broadway show. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 359
- For John Kander, who when teamed with lyricist Fred Ebb became one of Broadway’s most successful composers, it was with the slim, Ebb-less A Family Affair. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 139
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 A Family Affair at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.