The run closed March 7, 1959
- Opened
- November 29, 1956
- Closed
- March 7, 1959
- Performances
- 924
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Shubert Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 10th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Bells Are Ringing 2 more that season
| 1957 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2001 | Plymouth Theatre Revival · Tina Landau | 68 perf. |
Who was in it79 named
Pam Abbott
Frank Aletter
Doria Avila
Joanne Birks
Frank Derbas
Norma Doggett
Don Emmons
Frank Green
Eddie Heim
Kasimir Kokich
Marc Leon
Urylee Leonardos
Jeannine Masterson
David Mcdaniel
Paul Michael
Barbara Newman
Tom O Steen
Julian Patrick
John Perkins
Nancy Perkins
Ellen Ray
Michelle Reiner
Marsha Rivers
Donna Sanders
Willy Sumner
Ed Thompson
Beryl Towbin
Ben Vargas
Ann Wallace
Pat Wilkes
Gordon Woodburn
Heywood Hale Broun
Scott Hunter
Jack Rains
Ben Raisen
Louisa Cabot
Michael Davis
Joan Elliott
Jain Fairfax
Barbara Gutierrez
Marion Hunter
Louis Kosman
Ripple Lewis
Paul Lipson
Sigyn Lund
Frances Martin
Paul Merrill
William Miller
Philip Nasta
Mitchell Nutick
Ernest Parham
Alan Peterson
Ralph Roberts
Bob Roman
Adolph Sambogna
Mary Ellen Schimmel
Jim Smock
Harriet Spitz
Mark Tully
Ken Urmston
Edmund Walenta
Louise Woods
17 of these 79 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 62 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.
Characters13 roles recorded
Imogene Coca Ella Peterson
? Jeff Moss
? Sue Summers
Eddie Foy Jr. (as J. Otto Prantz) J. Sandor Prantz
? Inspector Barnes
? Larry Hastings
Ray George Carl
? Dr. Kitchell
? Blake Barton
? Paul Arnold
? Francis
? Gwynne
? Olga
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
- Jerome Robbins
- Choreographer
- Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse
- Producer
- Theatre Guild
- Orchestrations
- by
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.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
- The show, Bells Are Ringing (11/29/56), also starred Charlie Chaplin’s son Sydney. The Styne, Comden, and Green score yielded such gems as “Just in Time” and “The Party’s Over.” This resulted in their longest run to date, 924 performances. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 133
- Faith Prince starred in an ill-conceived revival of the JULE STYNE and COMDEN AND GREEN musical Bells Are Ringing (4/12/2001; 68 performances). Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 436
- Next, Styne, Comden, and Green collaborated on Bells Are Ringing (11/29/56; 924 performances), written as a vehicle for Judy Holliday. Comden and Green had cut their teeth performing with Holliday as members of the Revuers, an early musical comedy act that played Greenwich Village clubs. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 538
- JULE Styne, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green (see COMDEN AND GREEN), wrote the Judy Holliday musical Bells Are Ringing (11/29/56; 924 performances). The show introduced such standards as “The Party’s Over” and “Just in Time.” Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 549
- Despite reprising her smash success as Ella Peterson in the film version of Bells Are Ringing, she was able to create only one more role on the musical stage, that of Peace Corps volunteer Sally Hopwinder in the 1963 misfire Hot Spot. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 37
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 Bells Are Ringing at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.