The run closed April 11, 1964
- Opened
- April 4, 1964
- Closed
- April 11, 1964
- Performances
- 9
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Majestic Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 446th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Anyone Can Whistle 2 more that season
| 2010 | Sondheim Theatre Transfer | |
| 2022 | Playhouse Theatre Transfer |
Who was in it32 named
Susan Borree
Sterling Clark
Georgia Creighton
Eugene Edwards
Dick Ensslen
Harvey Evans
James Frawley
Janet Hayes
Loren Hightower
Bettye Jenkins
Alan Johnson
Patricia Kelly
Jeff Killion
Paula Lloyd
Barbara Monte
Jack Murray
Odette Phillips
William Reilly
Hanne Marie Reiner
Larry Roquemore
Tucker Smith
Donald Stewart
Jeanne Tanzy
Eleonore Treiber
8 of these 32 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 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.
Characters9 roles recorded
Madeline Kahn Cora Hoover Hooper
Bernadette Peters Fay Apple
Scott Bakula J. Bowden Hapgood
Walter Bobbie Comptroller Schub
Chip Zien Treasurer Cooley
Ken Page Police Chief Magruder
Maureen Moore Mrs. Schroeder
Nick Wyman Dr. Detmold
Sterling Clark, Harvey Evans, Evan Pappas, Eric Riley, and Tony Stevens Cora's Boys
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
- Arthur Laurents
- Choreographer
- Herbert Ross, Herbert
- Orchestrations
- Don Walker
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
Anyone Can Whistle is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Described as "a satire on conformity and the insanity of the so-called sane," the show tells a story of an economically depressed town whose corrupt mayor decides to create a fake miracle in order to attract tourists. The phony miracle draws the attention of an emotionally inhibited nurse, a crowd of inmates from a local asylum, and a doctor with secrets of his own. Following a tryout period in Philadelphia, Anyone Can Whistle opened at the Majestic Theatre on April 4, 1964, with Angela Lansbury making her stage musical debut. The show received widely varied reviews (including negative n…
- Anyone Can Whistle, with a beguiling score by Stephen Sondheim, a murky book by Arthur Laurents, and good performances by Angela Lansbury, Lee Remick, and Harry Guardino, lasted only 9 performances, but developed something of a cult following. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 272
- Arthur Laurents contributed the original idea for Anyone Can Whistle (4/4/64; 9 performances). Angela Lansbury, Lee Remick, and Harry Guardino made their Broadway musical debuts in the show. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 523
- Anyone Can Whistle, 329, 501 Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 614
- After the disappointing Anyone Can Whistle, he grudgingly returned to lyric writing with Do I Hear a Waltz? Determined to be known for more than lyrics, he set to work and made theatrical history just as his mentor, Oscar Hammerstein Il, had done forty years earlier with Show Boat. With the electric current of the nerv… Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 77
- Anyone Can Whistle, starring musical theatre neophytes Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury, and Harry Guardino. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 155
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 recording is held for Anyone Can Whistle at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.