The run closed January 13, 1968
- Opened
- April 26, 1967
- Closed
- January 13, 1968
- Performances
- 293
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 84th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it38 named
Lou Angel
Carol Flemming
Nat Gales
Frank Hamilton
Winston Dewitt Hemsley
Justin Mcdonough
Saundra Mcpherson
Garrett Morris
Michele Murray
Darrell Notara
Alan Peterson
Ann Rachel
Suzanne Rogers
Paul Reid Roman
Kenneth Scott
Don Strong
Bud Vest
Clifford Allen
Judith Austin
Michael Beirne
Lee Hooper
Bernard Johnson
Carolyn Kirsch
Dale Moreda
Larry Roquemore
Ella Thompson
Billy Dee Williams
11 of these 38 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 27 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
Leslie Uggams Georgina
Lillian Hayman Momma
Robert Hooks Clem
Barbara Sharma Mary
Allen Case Harvey
Frank Hamilton Mr. Charles / Timmy
Marilyn Cooper Mrs. Charles / Ethel
Winston DeWitt Hemsley Tip
Alan Weeks Tap
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
- Burt Shevelove
- Choreographer
- Kevin Carlisle
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.
Tony Awards 5 from 7 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
Recordings 1 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Hallelujah, Baby!, 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
Hallelujah, Baby! is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Adolph Green and Betty Comden, and a book by Arthur Laurents. The show is "a chronicle of the African American struggle for equality during the [first half of the] 20th century." The musical premiered on Broadway in 1967 and made a young Leslie Uggams a star. It won the Tony Award for Best Musical. In 2004, Laurents restaged the show twice with the same cast, in Washington D.C at the Arena Stage and at the George Street Playhouse in New Jersey, in order to update and streamline the story for modern sensibilities, and potentially move to New York for a full revival. The score was updated by Adolph Green's daughter, Amanda Gree…
- Not quite the format for a long-running smash, perhaps, but the show’s innovations did turn up in later productions such as Company and A Chorus Line (nonlinear stories), Hallelujah, Baby! Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 136
- Highlights of the late 1960s included Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, Rosemary Murphy, and Marian Seldes in Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance (1966); Leslie Uggams, Robert Hooks, Lillian Hayman, and Allen Case in the Tony Award winning musical Hallelujah, Baby! (1967), by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Jule Styne; At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 193
- Hallelujah, Baby! (4/26/67; 293 performances) reteamed Styne with his Gypsy librettist, Arthur Laurents. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 539
- "Hallelujah, Baby!," 112, 341, 517, 533 Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 644
- Hallelujah, Baby!, 149, 211 Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 339
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 1 recordings of Hallelujah, Baby! document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.