The run closed April 15, 1970
- Opened
- April 8, 1970
- Closed
- April 15, 1970
- Performances
- 9
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadhurst Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 446th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it23 named
Elaine Cancilla
Bill Dance
Ronnie K Douglas
John Ferrante
Darel Glaser
William Griffis
Todd Jones
Taylor Reed
Dora Rinehart
Charles Rule
Elliott Savage
Fran Stevens
Jay Stuart
Jack Trussel
Paul Ukena
Dolores Wilson
7 of these 23 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 16 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
- Albert Marre
- Choreographer
- Todd Bolender
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 William Alfred's 1966 play Hogan's Goat, which had been a critical success Off-Broadway. Mitch Leigh, the composer of Man of La Mancha, never had another Broadway hit. The show lost its entire investment.
- She worked exclusively with her husband, director Albert Marre, on two out-of-town folders (La Belle, and At the Grand), two fast flops (Cry for Us All and Home Sweet Homer, both with scores by composer Mitch Leigh), and one super smash, Man of La Mancha. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 175
- His final musical was 1970’s unfortunate Cry for Us All, singing the songs “The Mayor’s Chair” and “Aggie, Oh Aggie,” while losing much of his stage time to the ever-expanding role of Broadway’s version of Maria Callas, the lusty/busty diva Backstage __ Joan Diener. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 220
- Kasha and Hirschhorn had, in fact, also provided additional songs for Al’s brother Larry’s stage version of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, which had already undergone two failed pre-Broadway try-outs. Perseverance pays off, we are told, so a third attempt finally made it to the Alvin in 1982 (for five, count ’em, per… More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 221
- Leigh is a fine composer who needs knowledgeable advice about what to do with his ability. There is a great deal of music in this show—more than 20 musical numbers—but one song has nothing to do with another, musically, and few of them (I think just one) have anything to do with turn-of-the-century Irish Brooklyn, wher… More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 224
- Cry for Us All was troubled from the first, undergoing an especially arduous tryout. Leigh and Marre’s second musical, Chu-Chem, “the first Chinese-Jewish musical,” had mercifully shuttered in Philadelphia in 1966 (although it would rise again, like a moo shoo phoenix, for a brief Broadway gasp in 1989). Cry for Us All… More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 225
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 Cry For Us All at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.