The run closed November 25, 1972
- Opened
- November 19, 1972
- Closed
- November 25, 1972
- Performances
- 9
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 446th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it37 named
Janis Ansley
Patricia Arnell
Dwight Arno
Marcia Brooks
Nikolas Dante
Richard Dodd
Vito Durante
Phillip Filiato
Lynn Fitzpatrick
Larry Giroux
Charlie Goeddertz
Michael Goodwin
Gerald Haston
Alexis Hoff
Robert L Hultman
Douglas E Hunnikin
Genette Lane
Betsy Ann Leadbetter
Nancy Lynch
Linda Lee Macarthur
Andrea Marcovicci
Adam Petroski
Dean Russell
Salicia Saree
Michael Shannon
Ellie Smith
Suzanne Sponsler
Dixie Stewart
Marsha Tamaroff
Jack Trussel
Chester Walker
6 of these 37 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 31 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
- Stone Widney
- Choreographer
- Joyce Trisler
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
Ambassador is a musical with a book by Don Ettlinger and Anna Marie Barlow, lyrics by Hal Hackady, and music by Don Gohman. It is based on the 1903 Henry James novel The Ambassadors.
The designation of the exterior of the Ambassador Theater was rejected unanimously, but the exteriors of the Virginia and the Neil Simon were approved unanimously, and the interiors of the Neil Simon and Ambassador were approved by a 10-to-1 vote. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 506
- during the thirty years following the short run of Courtin’ Time she appeared in Zenda (1963; closed during its pre-Broadway tryout); The Yearling (1965; 7 performances); I’m Solomon (1968; 7 performances); Dear World (1969; 132 performances); Ambassador (1972; 9 performances); and Copperfield (1981; 13 performances). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 185
- before her last flop in 1981, the 13 performances of Copperfield. She came dangerously close to appearing in a hit—but she was replaced as George’s mother in Sunday in the Park with George after the workshop. In reality a talented and versatile character actress, Mathews, along with Morrow, has had perhaps the worst lu… Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 121
- [with 5 pans] Ambassador Ari Billy A Broadway Musical Coco Good News Goodtime Charley Her First Roman Here’s Where I Belong I Remember Mama La Strada Mack & Mabel Merrily We Roll Along Molly Music Is Oh, Brother! Rainbow Jones Rex So Long, 174th Street Timbuktu! A Time for Singing The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall Via… More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1075
- Playing three of Chaplin’s wives was Andrea Marcovicci, who had already appeared in the flop Ambassador on Broadway and in Nefertiti, which, like Chaplin, closed on the road. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 67
- Ambassador was actually twice a flop. With Danielle Darrieux an ideal Marie and Howard Keel just right for Lambert, the show was first produced in London, where it cost $265,000 as compared with the $800,000 it would have cost to mount on Broadway. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 210
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 Ambassador at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.