The run closed December 8, 1962
- Opened
- March 22, 1962
- Closed
- December 8, 1962
- Performances
- 300
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Shubert Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 82nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it33 named
Ed Collins
Wilma Curley
Marion Fels
Martha Gathright
Don Grilley
James Hickman
Barbara Monte
Jack Murray
William Reilly
Stanley Simmonds
William Sumner
Pat Turner
Edward Verso
Diane Ball
Ben Gillespie
Larry Gradus
Louise Lasser
Eliot Feld
Elly Stone
14 of these 33 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 19 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
Elliott Gould Harry Bogen
Jack Kruschen Maurice Pulvermacher
Barbra Streisand Miss Marmelstein
Marilyn Cooper Ruthie Rivkin
Ken LeRoy Meyer Bushkin
Lillian Roth Mrs. Ida Bogen
Sheree North Martha Mills
Bambi Linn Blanche Bushkin
Harold Lang Teddy Asch
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
- Arthur Laurents
- Choreographer
- Herbert Ross, Herbert
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 0 from 2 nominations
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
The show is famous for launching 19-year-old Barbra Streisand to stardom. In a supporting role as the secretary Miss Marmelstein, she stopped the show nightly with her comic number. Elliott Gould, who played the lead, married Streisand shortly after.
Haro_pD Rome’s last full-scale Broadway musical was I Can Get It for You Wholesale (3/22/62: 300 performances). The David Merrick production made history when, on opening night, a star was born. Her name was Barbra Streisand; although she had only a small role as Miss Marmelstein, a secretary, she stopped the Show. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 503
- I Can Get It for You Wholesale, 98, 149, 159-161, 172 Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 339
- I Can Get It for You Wholesale, featuring the Broadway debut of Barbra Streisand, opens at the Shubert Theater. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 27
- Joey Heatherton; when she tried to block the casting of Elliot Gould (of the 1962 I Can Get It For You Wholesale), though, she was told that casting was none of her business and sent packing. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 272
- So why not a South African/Yiddish score? Rome was an expert on native music of both stripes, it turned out, and the understated Zw/u is actually quite entrancing when taken on its own terms. It was tied to a hopeless interracial soap opera plot, though, causing songs and show to disappear quickly. The mid-60s being an… More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1021
- "I Can Get It for You Wholesale, 239, 250, 399, 999" More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1140
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 I Can Get It For You Wholesale at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.