The run closed April 26, 1969
- Opened
- April 10, 1968
- Closed
- April 26, 1969
- Performances
- 427
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Palace Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 54th 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 it36 named
Karin Baker
Susan Batson
Bill Brandon
Roger Braun
Danny Carroll
Gene Castle
Harvey Evans
Patti Mariano
Angela Martin
Scotty Salmon
Kathie Savage
Ronald Young
Deborah Deeble
Sheila Sullivan
Ray Becker
Alan Castner
Ray Chabeau
Kathy Conry
Andrea Duda
Bill Gerber
Ed Goldsmid
Eileen Lawlor
14 of these 36 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 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.
Characters8 roles recorded
Joel Grey George M. Cohan
Jerry Dodge Jerry Cohan
Jamie Donnelly Ethel Levy
Betty Ann Grove Nellie Cohan
Jill O'Hara Agnes Nolan
Bernadette Peters Josie Cohan
Jacqueline Alloway Fay Templeton
Harvey Evans Sam Harris
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
- Joe Layton
- Choreographer
- Joe Layton
- Producer
- David Black, Konrad Matthaei, Lorin Price
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.
Recordings 2 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against George M!, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
The first Broadway show I ever saw was George M! , starring Joel Grey, at the Palace Theatre. I was about five years old. Untold Stories of Broadway Volume 2 Part 1 the Jennifer Tepper, p. 29
“Broadway is the opportunity to see fabulous people fly or flub.”—director-choreographer JOE LAYTON (George M! )
Speaker not recorded. Broadway Babylon Boze Hadleigh, p. 5- Earlier shows that displayed unequivocally American themes—for example, the so-called Mulligan shows of Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart between 1879 and 1883, Percy Gaunt and Charles H. Hoyt’s phenomenally successful A Trip to Chinatown in 1891 (657 performances), and George M. Cohan’s Little Johnny Jones in 1904—are tod… Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 29
- James Cagney portrayed him in the 1942 biopic Yankee Doodle Dandy, and Joel Grey played him in George M! (1968). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 111
- George M! missed the Tony Award deadline, opening just after a season that included The Happy Time, How Now, Dow Jones, Ilya, Darling, and Tony-winner Hallelujah, Baby!—all flops, and rightly so. Hence, Clive Barnes and his “personal Tonys.” By the time the next awards deadline rolled around, George M! was long gone an… More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 346
- Bernadette Peters, Joel Grey’s sister in Stewart’s George M! (1967) and the Ruby Keeler-ish ingénue in the Off-Broadway Dames at Sea (1968), had already starred in not one but three musical flops: Lionel Bart’s La Strada (1969); the 1971 revival of On the Town; and as Carlotta Monti, opposite Mickey Rooney’s Bill Field… More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 586
- The previous summer he'd appeared on the citronella circuit in producer Black’s 1968 bio-tuner George M! More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1067
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.
- Which of the 2 recordings of George M! document this run, if any.
- No director named.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.