The run closed July 2, 1955
- Opened
- June 20, 1955
- Closed
- July 2, 1955
- Performances
- 16
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Longacre Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 487th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it18 named
Rita Tanno
Richard Towers
Ann York
15 of these 18 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 3 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
- Lew Kesler, Christopher Hewett
- Choreographer
- William Skipper
- Producer
- John S. Cobb
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
- Instead of a traditional out-of-town tryout, the revue played a series of previews before facing the New York critics; once the reviews appeared, the show couldn’t hang on for more than two weeks. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 492
- Almost Crazy) was here again satirized in “Arty” Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 498
- Like My Darlin’ Aida and Almost Crazy, Shinbone Alley was one of the decade’s few musicals to forgo an out-of-town tryout. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 625
- “Mother’s Day” (lyric and music credited to Portia Nelson) had been performed in the 1955 revue Almost Crazy (where the lyric was credited to Joyce Geary and the music to Nelson). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 640
- Like so many revues of the era, show business was the favorite satiric topic, and so Almost Crazy spoofed celebrities, television, the movies, and Broadway shows. The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 495
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 Almost Crazy at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.