The run closed February 14, 1970
- Opened
- February 14, 1970
- Closed
- February 14, 1970
- Performances
- 1
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Adelphi Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 550th 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 it28 named
Tom Batten
Chuck Beard
J Michael Bloom
Kenneth Bridges
Robert Donahue
Sandy Ellen
Carol Estey
Bob Gorman
Gloria Hodes
David Hooks
Keith Kaldenberg
Zale Kessler
Clyde Laurents
Robert Lenn
James N Maher
Kathleen Robey
Dixie Stewart
Diane Tarleton
Maralyn Thoma
Terry Violino
Mimi Wallace
7 of these 28 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
- Onna White
- Choreographer
- Onna White
- Orchestrations
- Jim Tyl
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
The last show to open at the George Abbott Theatre before it was torn down, Gantry received negative reviews and closed in one night.
Gantry opened Saturday night with its cast practically reading the closing notice on stage ... a mess. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 153
- The theater’s last show did even worse. Gantry (2/14/70), with Robert Shaw and Rita Moreno, opened and closed in one day. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 207
- Gantry was merely an unheralded, negligible flop. Unable to afford an out-of-town tryout, the show played thirty-two underattended previews at the Abbott. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 342
- Heathen! was also the second (and final) musical from the youthful producers of the Exodus-based Ari. And it was the sixth Broadway musical in less than a year and a half to shutter after only one performance. (All right, Pll name them: La Strada, Gantry, Blood Red Roses, Frank Merriwell, Wild and Wonderful, and Heathe… More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 438
- If Here’s Where I Belong was a bleak, dullish show, it was a lark compared to The Yearling (Alvin; Dec. 10, ’65; 3), adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1939 novel. The Yearling tripled the runs of one-nighters Gantry and Here’s Where’s I Belong. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 160
- Despite Jimmy’s $1 million loss, let’s call Gantry (as in Elmer) the biggest flop of the season—not just because it ran one night, but also because its plan to get feedback from out-of-town critics was the biggest flop idea of the season, too. Broadway Musicals the Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of Filichia Peter New Yor, p. 88
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 Gantry at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.