The run closed December 31, 1961
- Opened
- September 29, 1960
- Closed
- December 31, 1961
- Performances
- 524
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 46th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it19 named
Aric Lavie
Zack Matalon
Osborne Smith
George del Monte
Eddie Gasper
Byron Mitchell
Joe Rocco
Denis Quilley
Ben Gillespie
10 of these 19 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 9 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
- Onna White
- Producer
- David Merrick
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 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
- Prior to this production, the most successful musical of French origin (which also crossed the Atlantic via London) had been Irma la Douce. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 268
- The Plymouth greeted the 1960s with a smash musical, Irma La Douce (i960), that came by way of France and England. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 133
- The 1960s brought Frank Loesser's unsuccessful musical Greemvillow (i960), starring Anthony Perkins, Ellen McCown, Pert Kelton, and Cecil Kellaway; the Ballets Africains and West Side Story, from the Winter Garden (i960): Lucille Ball in a moderately entertaining musical (and Cy Coleman's Broadway debut), Wildcat (1961… At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 291
- Irma La Douce, 115, 116, 273 At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 366
- Fred Gwyunne, Elizabeth Seal, and George S. Irving in producer David Merrick’s 1960 production, Irma La Douce. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 436
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 Irma La Douce at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.