The run closed March 22, 1969
- Opened
- March 18, 1969
- Closed
- March 22, 1969
- Performances
- 7
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 480th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it29 named
William Cottrell
David Cryer
John Gerstad
William Lemassena
Paul Berne
Marcia Brushingham
Bjarne Buchtrup
Harry Endicott
David Evans
Ellen Everett
William Glassman
Sunny Hannum
Walter Hook
Del Horstmann
John Johann
Lucia Lambert
Mary Ann Rydzeski
Dorothy Sands
Lana Sloniger
Sarah Jane Smith
Britt Swanson
Jeanette Williamson
Toodie Wittmer
Jenny Workman
5 of these 29 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 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
- Agnes de Mille
- Choreographer
- Agnes de Mille
- Orchestrations
- Carlyle Hall
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
Oddly enough, though, the show's biggest problem may have been Bolger himself.
I attended the premiere of a sorry musical comedy entitled Come Summer. (Ray Bolger, Agnes de Mille, nearly three hours without cracking a smile.) Broadway Yearbook 2001 2002 A Relevant and Irreverent Steven Suskin Kindle 2003 , p. 41
- Baker also wrote the charming and melodic score for the 1969 Broadway musical Come Summer . Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 659
- His two Broadway musicals, Copper and Brass (1957) and Come Summer (1969) had short runs, but those songs that have surfaced from the former are cheerful, and his Come Summer score is rich in melody. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 858
- Cryer—whose then-husband, David, leading man of Come Summer (1969) and Ari (1971), was also thwarted in his Broadway bid—and Ford never returned to Broadway, although they enjoyed a long-running downtown hit with I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road (1978). More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 850
- His sporadic producing career continued, with The Body Beautiful (1958, Bock and Harnick’s first collaboration), The Girls Against the Boys (1959), Hallelujah, Baby! (1967), Come Summer (1969), Mitch Leigh’s closed-out-of-town Halloween (1972), Irene (1973), The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall, and Comin’ Uptown (1979). More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 966
- Tony Awards were won by René Auberjonois (supporting actor) and Cecil Beaton (costume designer). More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 202
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 Come Summer at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.