The run closed May 31, 1975
- Opened
- March 3, 1975
- Closed
- May 31, 1975
- Performances
- 104
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Palace Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 168th 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 it31 named
Ed Becker
Kenneth Bridges
Rhoda Butler
Peggy Cooper
Kathe Dezina
Andy Hostettler
Dan Joel
Nancy Killmer
Cam Lorendo
Glen Mcclaskey
Ross Miles
Tod Miller
Hal Norman
Julie Pars
Sal Pernice
George Ramos
Kathleen Robey
Charles Rule
Jane Ann Sargia
Pat Swayze
Brad Tyrrell
Gordon Weiss
Jerry Yoder
Maureen Maloney
7 of these 31 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 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.
Characters9 roles recorded
Joel Grey Dauphin of France
Ann Reinking Joan of Arc
Susan Browning Agnès Sorel
Louis Zorich The General
Richard B. Shull Minguet
Jay Garner The Archbishop
Grace Keagy Isabeau of Bavaria
Peggy Cooper Yolande
Hal Norman Charles VI of France
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
- Peter H. Hunt
- Choreographer
- Onna White
- Orchestrations
- Jonathan Tunick
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 recipient of six Tony nominations, Goodtime Charley lost $1.1 million, well over its original investment, thanks to consistent operating losses.
That song is the first thing I ever heard Lonny Price sing. I thought that was weirdly karmic. After we were all cast in Merrily We Roll Along, we had these gatherings before we started rehearsals. Lonny sat at the piano in his room and Steve Sondheim was there, and at the piano he sang “Goodtime Charley.”
Speaker not recorded. Untold Stories of Broadway Volume 2 Part 1 the Jennifer Tepper, p. 44- His presence as the Dauphin of France threw off the dramatic balance, in a story that should have focused on Ann Reinking’s character, Joan of Arc. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 55
- One of the most underrated of the great choreographers, Onna White’s work always reflected character, advanced the plot, and displayed abundant invention. Comparisons of her work on the original productions with that of recent revivals show exactly how brilliant Onna White could be. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 210
- It happens to be the first in which the heroine goes up in smoke before the final curtain. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 370
- he’s been sparking a chain of musicals ever since (including Goodtime Charley [1975], The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas [1978], La Cage aux Folles [1983], and the 1995 revival of Hello, Dolly!). More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 788
- [with 5 pans] Ambassador Ari Billy A Broadway Musical Coco Good News Goodtime Charley Her First Roman Here’s Where I Belong I Remember Mama La Strada Mack & Mabel Merrily We Roll Along Molly Music Is Oh, Brother! Rainbow Jones Rex So Long, 174th Street Timbuktu! A Time for Singing The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall Via… More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1075
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 Goodtime Charley at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.