The run closed March 22, 1970
- Opened
- March 22, 1970
- Closed
- March 22, 1970
- Performances
- 1
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- John Golden Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 550th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it14 named
Charles Abbott
Philip Bruns
Jeanie Carson
Ronald Drake
Bill Gibbens
Jay Gregory
Lowell Harris
Jess Richards
William Tost
Sydney Walker
4 of these 14 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 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
- Alan Schneider
- Choreographer
- Larry Fuller
- Orchestrations
- Julian Stein, Abba Bogin
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
The show lasted only one performance, making it one of the shortest-lived musicals of the 1969-70 season. Director Alan Schneider, known for directing Albee and Beckett, had directed another one-night-only musical (La Strada) just months earlier.
- Heathen! was also the second (and final) musical from the youthful producers of the Exodus-based Ari. And it was the sixth Broadway musical in less than a year and a half to shutter after only one performance. (All right, Pll name them: La Strada, Gantry, Blood Red Roses, Frank Merriwell, Wild and Wonderful, and Heathe… More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 438
- Alan Schneider, who had won his reputation by directing Albee, Pinter, and Beckett, was hired to direct his first musical (he directed another one the following year, Blood Red Roses, which lasted one night), Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 177
- Blood Red Roses (1970, one performance), and a black concept-musical, Honky Tonk Nights (1986, four performances). Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 304
- "Blood Red Roses," a musical number in Lovesong. Theatre World 1976 77 Season V 33 Willis, p. 95
- JESS RICHARDS. Born Jan. 23, 1943 in Seattle, WA. Attended U. Wash. Bdwy debut 1966 in "Walking Happy," followed by "South Pacific" (LC). "Blood Red Roses," "Two by Two," "On the Town" for which he received a Theatre World Award, "Mack and Mabel," OB in "One for the Money," "Lovesong.", Theatre World 1976 77 Season V 33 Willis, p. 260
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 Blood Red Roses at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.