The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- December 14, 1966
- Closed
- —
- Performances
- 0
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Majestic Theatre
No performance count on this record. 2,834 of 13,459 productions are missing one, so a blank here means unrecorded, not a short run.
No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.
Other stagings of Breakfast At Tiffany’s 1 more that season
| 2013 | Cort Theatre Revival · Sean Mathias | 38 perf. |
Who was in it4 named
4 of these 4 names have a person record behind them and link to one. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Abe Burrows
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
Breakfast at Tiffany's is a musical with music and lyrics by Bob Merrill and a book originally by Abe Burrows but rewritten during pre-Broadway tryouts by Edward Albee. It is based on the 1958 Truman Capote novella and 1961 film of the same name about a free spirit named Holly Golightly. After tryouts in Philadelphia and Boston, and only four previews on Broadway in 1966, the show was closed by producer David Merrick at a total financial loss. Its only revival was a staged concert in 2013 at a 200-seat venue in London. A studio recording was released in 2001. The musical is one of the most notorious fiascos in Broadway history. William Goldman called it a "legendary production" meaning "a ce…
Preview theatregoers either noisily paraded to the nearest exit or loudly protested and attacked the players and script from the audience. Broadway Bound A Guide To Shows That Died Aborning, p. 225
Truman Capote told Women’s Wear Daily, "I don’t like the score--or the leading lady. They followed the book more closely than the movie--maybe they would have been better off patterning after the film...."
Speaker not recorded. Broadway Bound A Guide To Shows That Died Aborning, p. 224- He caused a furor when he closed the foundering Breakfast at Tiffany’s in previews, telling the press that he was sparing the public an incredibly dull evening in the theatre. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 89
- The Grass Harp was the third Capote novella transformed for the musical stage, following House of Flowers (1954) and Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1966). More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 386
- Henry, Sweet Henry fleetly came and went, leaving budding choreographer Michael Bennett with a second Tony nomination his second time out for his second flop. (He kept tabs on Henry's dance music arrangers, William Goldenberg and Marvin Hamlisch, eventually enlisting them both to compose scores for him.) More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 448
- Merrill’s Broadway career has been virtually ended by the combination of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S [December 14, 1966], PRETTYBELLE [February 1, 1971] and THE PRINCE OF GRAND STREET—three star vehicles with great potential and heavy advance theatre party bookings. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 473
- The combination of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S [December 14, 1966], PRETTYBELLE [February L, 1971}, and THE PRINCE OF GRAND STREET —three disastrous big-star vehicles with great potential and heavy advance theatre-party bookings—virtually ended Merrill’s Broadway career. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 294
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 Breakfast At Tiffany’s at all.
- When it closed.
- No performance count.
- No show page for Breakfast At Tiffany’s. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.