The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- March 28, 1989
- Closed
- —
- Performances
- 3
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 433rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
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.
Who was in it21 named
Anne Jackson
Eli Wallach
Fyvush Finkel
George Guidall
Carl Don
Felix Fibich
Tresa Hughes
Mitchell Jason
Jack Kenny
Bernie Passeltiner
Laura Sametz
10 of these 21 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 11 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
- Martin Charnin
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
Based on Hy Kraft's 1942 play of the same name, the musical version lasted only 3 performances. It was one of several flops during the 1988-89 season, considered one of Broadway's worst for musicals.
- He first appeared on Broadway in 1942 in Café Crown, but he reached star status with his performances in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) and as Tevye the milkman in Fiddler on the Roof (1964). The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre 1943 1965 Naden Corinne J Rowman Litt, p. 165
- Of the four major flops of the year three are long forgotten — Café Crown (3), Something More! or less (15), and the Italian Rugantino (28) by Giovannini and Garinei, three of whose musicals reached London — but one, Anyone Can Whistle (9) has passed into legend. West End Broadway the Golden Age of the American Musical Adrian Wright Boydell B, p. 235
- The Producers (1968). Among the doctored and defaced window cards festooned in Max Bialystock’s office are three musicals from 1964—Café Crown, Foxy, and Something More!—and one from 1965: La Grosse Valise. The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 295
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 Café Crown at all.
- When it closed.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.