The run closed September 24, 1955
- Opened
- September 6, 1955
- Closed
- September 24, 1955
- Performances
- 23
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 444th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it22 named
Lillian D Honau
Carol Field
Louise Golden
Carl Jeffrey
Rhoda Kerns
Kay Kingston
Sigyn
15 of these 22 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 7 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
- Ray Golden
- Choreographer
- Lee Sherman
- Producer
- Sy Kleinman
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
One of Bock’s happiest memories about Catch a Star! was an article that appeared in the Daily News two days after the opening (on 8 September 1955) in which Douglas Watt quoted Richard Rodgers, as he left the theater after the premiere, expressing particular affection for “Fly, Little Heart.” B00590x4l8 Ebok Philip Lambert, p. 54
- The revue included six songs and sketches from Catch a Star! : “To Be or Not to Be in Love,” “Carnival in Court” (now “Holiday in Court”), “Arty,” “Gruntled,” “Matrimonial Agency,” and “The Story of Alice” (which was also heard as “The Story of Algernon” and “The Story of a Beautiful Child”). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 500
- originally performed in the 1955 Broadway revue Catch a Star! ; Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 552
- earned his first credits on Broadway with songs for revues (Harnick: New Faces of 1952; Bock: Catch a Star!, 1955). Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 390
- Catch a Star! was another anemic revue with show business on the brain, and it too had a short run. If anything, the revue is now notable for “catching” a number of sketch writers, lyricists, and composers who within a few years would have major careers on Broadway: Neil Simon, Mike Stewart, Jerry Bock, and Lee Adams. The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 500
- “To Be or Not to Be (in Love)” (lyric by Ray Golden, Dan Shapiro, and Milton Pascal; music by Phil Charig) (choreography by Ludmilla Kiro) (Wardrobe Woman: Barbara Heller; Dancers: Joanne Larkin, Kelly Brown; Singers: Aileen Stanley Jr., Alec Davis); originally performed in the 1955 Broadway revue Catch a Star!; The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 553
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 Catch a Star! at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.