The run closed June 23, 1973
- Opened
- May 13, 1973
- Closed
- June 23, 1973
- Performances
- 49
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Palace Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 268th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.
Who was in it32 named
Paul Berget
James Blendick
J Kenneth Campbell
Joel Craig
Anita Dangler
Geoff Garland
Michael Goodwin
Bob Heath
Patrick Hines
Anthony Inneo
Betty Leighton
Janet Mccall
Gale Mcneeley
Tom Nissen
Michael Nolan
Alexander Orfaly
James Richardson
Patricia Roos
Jill P Rose
Richard Schneider
George Spelvin
Mary Straten
Donovan Sylvest
Louis Turenne
Danny Villa
Mimi Wallace
6 of these 32 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 26 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
- Michael Kidd
- Choreographer
- Michael Kidd
- Orchestrations
- Philip J. Lang
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 Awardscategories not held
0 wins from 2 nominations. Which categories is not on this record.
Around this production
Cyrano is a musical with a book and lyrics by Anthony Burgess and music by Michael J. Lewis. Based on Edmond Rostand's classic 1897 play of the same name, it focuses on a love triangle involving the large-nosed poetic Cyrano de Bergerac, his beautiful cousin Roxana, and his classically handsome but inarticulate friend Christian de Neuvillette who, unaware of Cyrano's unrequited passion for Roxana, imposes upon him to provide the romantic words he can use to woo her successfully in mid-17th century Paris. In the early 1960s, David Merrick had announced plans to produce a musical entitled Cyrano with a score by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, but nothing came of the project. Burgess had tr…
On the evening of June 5, 1983, during the annual Tony Award telecast, the name of the Uris was officially changed to the Gershwin Theatre, in honor ol composer George Gershwin and his lyricist brother, Ira, who contributed many distinguished musicals and the opera Porgy and Bess to the Broadway theatre. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 343
Dramatic Production: Cyrano de Bergerac (The Old Globe)
Speaker not recorded. Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 440- In 1923 Walter Hampden revived the Rostand classic Cyrano de Bergerac and was rewarded with great notices and a run of 250 performances. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 155
- Jose Ferrer in his acclaimed revival of Cyrano de Bergerac, which moved here from the Alvin Theatre (1946). At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 301
- Jose Ferrer, Arlene Dahl, and Paula Laurence were in Cyrano De Bergerac (also in the cast was the future novelist Tom Tryon); Mr. Ferrer next appeared in a revival of Richard III with Vincent Price, Jessie Royce Landis, Florence Reed, Margaret Wycherly, and Maureen Stapleton; At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 318
- Actor/producer Walter Hampden brought a production of Cyrano de Bergerac (11/1/23; 250 performances) there and returned to the National in Hamlet, which moved from the Hampden Theater. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 390
- The old boy had been cobbled into at least three closed-out-of-town tuners: Cyrano de Bergerac (1932), a Shubert-produced costume operetta; Vernon Duke’s The Vagabond Hero (1939), a revision of the former; and the 1973 Wright and Forrest summer stock tryout 4 Song for Cyrano with Joe Ferrer. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 230
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 Cyrano at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.