The run closed February 28, 1959
- Opened
- October 11, 1958
- Closed
- February 28, 1959
- Performances
- 161
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 160th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it43 named
Jeanne Grant
Sam Greene
Loren Hightower
George Jack
Bunty Kelley
Ronnie Landry
Josanne Lavalle
Margaret Lithander
Sadie Mccollum
Carolyn Morris
Illona Murai
Patti Nestor
David Nillo
Rita Noble
Paul Olson
Ben Parrish
Peter Saul
Rufus Smith
Suzanne Stahl
Ron Stratton
Evelyn Taylor
Diana Turner
Samye van
Gene Varrone
Joan Lindsay
18 of these 43 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 25 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
- Walter Kerr
- Choreographer
- Agnes de Mille
- Producer
- The Producers Theatre (A Robert Whitehead Production)
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 part of Max changed hands twice: Ben Gazzara was originally signed, then asked to be released; he was replaced by Barry Sullivan, who had been originally sought and was now available.
Goldilocks , Broadway, 1958 Nothing Like A Dame Conversations With the Great Women of Musical Theater Eddie , p. 7
- Goldilocks (1958; 161 performances) and Mack and Mabel (1974; 65 performances). Even Off-Off-Broadway’s Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi (1993), Dominic Argento’s opera The Dream of Valentino (1993), and Off-Broadway’s The IT Girl (2001; inspired by Clara Bow’s silent film It ) seem to have disappeared after their ini… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 513
- One feels the musical needed more tweaking (and perhaps just one more stop on the tryout road for additional rewriting) in order to better clarify the relationship of Max and Maggie, and to satisfyingly resolve the storylines involving George and Lois. And that title needed to go. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 724
- Early flyers advertised Ben Gazzara as the male lead, but he dropped out in preproduction; as the show neared its tryout, Barry Sullivan was brought in, but he too decamped; and so Don Ameche assumed the role about midway through the tryout. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 726
- Songs cut during the tryout were: “Guess Who,” “Little Girls,” “Hurricane Dance,” “Come to Me,” and “My Last Spring.” Shortly after the Broadway opening, the title of “Huckleberry Island Ballet” was changed to “Pirate Orgy.” Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 726
- As the Girls Go, Seventh Heaven, Goldilocks, On a Clear Day, Zorba, The Act, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, and Kiss of the Spider Woman—each of which saw fit to raise the prevailing price plateau—all floundered and flopped. That’s show biz. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 35
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 Goldilocks at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.