The run closed May 21, 1955
- Opened
- December 30, 1954
- Closed
- May 21, 1955
- Performances
- 165
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Neil Simon Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 158th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it36 named
Leu Comacho
Joseph Comadore
Hubert Dilworth
Solomon Earl Green
Dolores Harper
Winston George Henriques
Cristyne Lawson
Mary Louise
Don Mckayle
Mary Mon Toy
Ada Moore
Enid Mosier
Albert Popwell
Don Redman
Pearl Reynolds
Sabu
Margot Small
Herbert Stubbs
Glory van Scott
Jacques Aubuchon
Audrey Mason
15 of these 36 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 21 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
- Peter Brook
- Choreographer
- Herbert Ross, Herbert
- Producer
- Saint Subber
- Orchestrations
- Ted Royal
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
Choreographer George Balanchine was fired, and Herbert Ross was called in; by the end of the tryout, Ross had also replaced Brook—with whom Bailey had clashed violently—as director, although Brook retained program credit.
- House of Flowers is clearly one of the major events of the American musical theatre with its bewitching and irresistibly melodic score, not to mention an overture that ranks with Candide and Gypsy as one of musical theatre’s finest. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 438
- There were also spoofs of Marilyn Monroe (who carries around a portable automatic skirt-blower), House of Flowers, and The Bad Seed. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 493
- Melodies by HAROLD ARLEN next filled the Alvin in House of Flowers (12/30/54; 165 performances). Truman Capote was the unlikely author of the book and co-author of the lyrics with Arlen. Pearl Bailey and Juanita Hall starred in the show, but the best songs, “A Sleepin’ Bee” and “I Never Has Seen Snow,” went to newcomer… Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 394
- House of Flowers, 29, 372 Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 648
- He composed wonderful songs for the shows Bloomer Girl, St. Louis Woman, House of Flowers, Jamaica, and Saratoga, including the standards “Right as the Rain,” “A Sleepin’ Bee,” “Any Place | Hang My Hat Is Home,” and “Come Rain or Come Shine.” Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 41
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 House of Flowers at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.