The run closed May 28, 1960
- Opened
- March 8, 1960
- Closed
- May 28, 1960
- Performances
- 95
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Neil Simon Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 199th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it43 named
Kenny Adams
Jere Admire
Don Atkinson
Lynn Brinker
Joan Coddington
Saralou Cooper
Dortha Duckworth
Ethelyne Dunfee
Richard Englund
Marie Foster
David Gold
Russell Goodwin
Margery Gray
Mickey Gunnerson
Brenda Harris
Jordon Howard
Patsi King
Jack Leigh
Bruce Mackay
John Megna
Carl Nicholas
Thomas Norden
Bob Roman
Elaine Swann
Shelia Swenson
Maggie Task
Karen Thorsell
Ian Tucker
Nancy van Rhein
Jimmy White
13 of these 43 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 30 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
- George Roy Hill
- Choreographer
- Joe Layton
- Producer
- Robert Willey
- Orchestrations
- Don Walker
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 recording might lead one to want to revive the show, but Greenwillow is best left undone.
To Loesser’s chagrin, even pre-sold theater parties didn’t help fill the theater weeknights. The show’s musical director Abba Bogin noted that on Friday nights “You could graze sheep in the theater—there was nobody there!” Broadway Babylon Boze Hadleigh, p. 97
Singing tends to feminize a performer, especially a female one.
GEORGE ROY HILL. Broadway Babylon Boze Hadleigh, p. 356- Though tarrying on Broadway only three months, Greenwillow has long been admired for the airy, otherworldly charms of Frank Loesser’s atypical score. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 182
- His only flop to reach Broadway, Greenwillow. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 150
- Four years later Loesser himself was crying over the failure (ninety-seven performances) of the bucolic Greenwillow (1960). The show contained an excellent score, the best efforts of Tony Perkins in the leading role, and a positive review by Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times. Despite all this, Donald Malcolm would… Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 308
- Although originally announced as the lead, Tony Perkins—who starred in Frank Loesser’s 1960 Greenwillow and the 1966 Sondheim/James Goldman TV minimusical Evening Primrose—opted out. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 217
- Loesser’s Greenwillow, Weill and Ira Gershwin’s The Firebrand of Florence, Dietz and Schwartz’s Jennie, and Berlin’s Mr. President—from top talents. 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 character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Greenwillow at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.