The run closed May 30, 1959
- Opened
- March 19, 1959
- Closed
- May 30, 1959
- Performances
- 92
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Neil Simon Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 231st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it43 named
Norman Fredericks
Richard Gain
Janise Gardner
Sally Gura
Marian Haraldson
Warren Hays
Stuart Hodes
Harriet Leigh
Donald Madden
Laurie Main
Jeannine Masterson
Martha Mathes
Dorothy Jeanne Mattis
James Mitchell
Phyllis Newman
Wendy Nickerson
Louise Pearl
Lauri Peters
Casper Roos
Lynn Ross
Tony Rossi
John Starkweather
Jay Stern
Marti Stevens
Beverly Jane Welch
22 of these 43 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
- Abe Burrows
- Choreographer
- Jonathan Lucas
- Producer
- George Gilbert and Edward Specter Productions, Inc.
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
She was replaced by another popular singer, Polly Bergen, with Farley Granger cast as Darcy and Hermione Gingold as Mrs.
First Impressions; Only in America 1960 Greenwillow; Wildcat 1962 Giants, Sons of Giants; Nowhere to Go But Up 1963 Marathon ’33 1964 The Crucible; The Seagull 1966 The Great In The Broadway Design Roster Designers and Their Credits Owen Bobbi Bibliographies, p. 281
- First Impressions (1959), all of which had delightful scores, offered more than twice the average number of musical sequences. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 4
- She was also Mrs. Bennett in the 1959 Broadway musical First Impressions , an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice . Hers was a controversial performance: it may not have been Austen, but it was certainly good old-fashioned musical comedy, and she shined on the cast album, particularly in the song “A House i… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 169
- He appeared in early tryout performances of First Impressions (1959) and No, No, Nanette (1971), but was succeeded by Christopher Hewett and Jack Gilford, respectively. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 888
- The late 1950s at this theatre housed some musicals that were only moderately successful: Oh, Captain! (1958), with Tony Randall, Abbe Lane, Susan Johnson, and Alexandra Danilova; and First Impressions, a musical version of Pride and Prejudice (1959), starring Hermione Gingold, Farley Granger, Polly Bergen, Phyllis New… At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 291
- Difficult to cast due to her unique looks and delivery, her next musical was not until 1959, when she played Mrs. Bennett, the mother of “Five Daughters” in First Impressions. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 204
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 First Impressions at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.