The run closed April 3, 1952
- Opened
- October 12, 1950
- Closed
- April 3, 1952
- Performances
- 644
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 30th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Call Me Madam 1 more that season
| 1952 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it61 named
Aristide Bartis
Muriel Bentley
Ralph Chambers
Owen Coll
William David
Trudy Deluz
Ollie Engebretson
Shellie Farrell
Richard Fjellman
Lydia Fredericks
Nina Frenkin
Estelle Gardner
William Hail
Norma Kaiser
Allan Knolls
E A Krumschmidt
Virginia le Roy
Kenneth Leroy
Ralph Linn
Albert Linville
Ruth Mcvayne
Douglas Moppert
Lily Paget
Arthur Partington
Noella Peloquin
Robert Penn
Tom Reider
John Sheehan
Stanley Simmonds
Lilia Skala
Ray Stephens
Bobby Tucker
Kirsten Valbor
Jay Velie
William Weslow
Helene Whitney
Joy Carroll
Crandall Diehl
Dolores Goodman
Eric Kristen
Gene Myers
Robert Patterson
Edward Pfeiffer
Will Scholz
17 of these 61 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 44 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.
Characters14 roles recorded
Elaine Stritch Mrs. Sally Adams
Richard Smart Cosmo Constantine
? Kenneth Gibson
Arlyne Frank Princess Maria
Pat Harrington Sr. Congressman Wilkins
Lee Bergere Pemberton Maxwell
Le Roi Operti Henry Gibson
William Putch Senator Gallagher
Jay Velie Senator Brockbank
Robert Bernard Sebastian Sebastian
? Grand Duke Otto
Florence Dunlap Grand Duchess Sophie
Victor Clarke Hugo Tantinnin
Jerry Goff The Secretary of State
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
- George Abbott
- Choreographer
- Jerome Robbins
- Producer
- Leland Hayward
- 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.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
- Another piece, Irving Berlin’s “Mr. Monotony,” makes its Broadway debut in this production since it had been cut out of both Miss Liberty and Call Me Madam. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 274
- Annie Get Your Gun was the first of two shows Irving Berlin wrote for Ethel Merman (the other was Call Me Madam). Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 154
- Most shows were lighhearted in nature, and it’s notable the critics often used such words as carnival, jubilee, fandango, hoedown, haymaker, and festival to describe not just a particular song or dance sequence but also to characterize their take-away, overall impressions of the musicals they reviewed. But if fun was t… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 2
- Call Me Madam was the first Broadway show to sell $1 million worth of tickets before its New York opening. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 82
- The song “Mr. Monotony” was next heard in the tryout of Call Me Madam (it was sung by Merman, Muriel Bentley, Tommy Rall, and Arthur Partington), but again was dropped (it was replaced by “Something to Dance About”). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 85
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 recording is held for Call Me Madam at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.