The run closed July 14, 1951
- Opened
- June 13, 1951
- Closed
- July 14, 1951
- Performances
- 37
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Nederlander Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 358th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it39 named
Joan Keenan
Michael Kingsley
Rosemary Kuhlmann
William Maguire
Mary Martinet
May Muth
Mary O Fallon
Gloria Patrice
Pat Poole
Charles Rule
Frances Sorenson
Robert Strobel
Joseph Sweeney
Teddy Tavenner
David E Thomas
Theodor Uppman
Elsa van Horne
Lawrence Weber
Earl William
Lou Yetter
Charles Zulkeski
18 of these 39 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 21 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
- Alfred Drake
- Choreographer
- George Balanchine
- Producer
- James Russo and Michael Ellis in association with Alexander H. Cohen
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
Lloyd Richards, later dean of the Yale School of Drama, artistic director of Yale Repertory Theatre, and director of the plays of August Wilson, was hired to direct Hackett but was replaced in Detroit by John Allen after a dispute with Kipness.
- But like so many gifted performers of the era (Janet Collins in Out of This World, Billie Worth in Courtin’ Time, and Elaine Malbin in My Darlin’ Aida), Betty Paul never again appeared in a Broadway musical. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 304
- appeared in various straight plays before her first kamikaze musical appearance, in 1951’s Courtin’ Time, which somehow managed to play two different Broadway houses but rack up only 37 performances. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 121
- Peter Conlow (Courtin’ Time) Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 421
- Cohen would go on to produce an uninterrupted series of flop book musicals, including Courtin’ Time, A Time for Singing, Dear World, Prettybelle, and I Remember Mama. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 71
- Lawrence had already cowritten the score for the unsuccessful Courtin’ Time, and Freeman would later coauthor the score for the flop Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 86
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 Courtin’ Time at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.