The run closed October 28, 1961
- Opened
- November 23, 1959
- Closed
- October 28, 1961
- Performances
- 795
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadhurst Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 18th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Fiorello! 1 more that season
| 1962 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it56 named
Bob Bernard
Elaine Cancilla
Frederic Downs
Barbara Gilbert
H F Green
Ellen Harris
Patricia Harty
Del Horstmann
Scott Hunter
Deedy Irwin
Bob Lacrosse
Mara Landi
David London
Lynda Lynch
Jim Maher
Gregg Owen
Julian Patrick
Ginny Perlowin
Patsy Peterson
Lowell Purvis
Michael Quinn
Dellas Rennie
Lynn Ross
Silver Saundors
Michael Scrittorale
Stanley Simmonds
Dan Siretta
Joseph Toner
Pat Turner
Helen Verbit
Pat Cooper
Beverly Dixon
Tony Gardell
Barbara Hammerstein
Diane Mcdaniel
Joy Nichols
Beatrice Salten
Alan Sanderson
Rufus Smith
Merritt Thompson
Marjorie Graner
Margery Gray
14 of these 56 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 42 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.
Characters10 roles recorded
Tom Bosley Fiorello La Guardia
Melisande Congdon Thea
Barbara Sharma Dora
Patricia Wilson Marie
H. F. Green Ben Marino
Jack Hollander Morris
Arthur Bartow Neil
Barbara James Mitzi Travers
Helene Andreu Mrs. Pomerantz
Alan North Floyd
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- George Abbott
- Choreographer
- Peter Gennaro
- Producer
- Robert Griffith & Harold Prince
- Orchestrations
- Irwin Kostal
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 Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
- The team’s songs for The Body Beautiful were tuneful and lively, and the next year they wrote the score for the long-running Pulitzer Prize-winning Fiorello! , and during the next eleven years were represented on Broadway five times with Tenderloin (1960), She Loves Me (1963), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), The Apple Tree… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 675
- The musical has been revived twice in concert productions by Encores! and in fact was the very first musical presented in the new series of tributes to old musicals. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 844
- Pulitzer Prize (1959–1960): Best Drama (Fiorello! ) Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 845
- Abbott directed and collaborated on the book for the Pulitzer prize—winning musical Fiorello! (11/23/ 59; 796 performances). The show was the first hit for the team of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 27
- Fiorello! opened on November 23, 1959, with Tom Bosley as the feisty mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 94
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 recording is held for Fiorello! at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.