The run closed April 11, 1959
- Opened
- October 31, 1957
- Closed
- April 11, 1959
- Performances
- 555
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 44th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it47 named
Patricia Dunn
Frank Glass
Harold Gordon
Lavinia Hamilton
Sandra Hinton
Nat Horne
Albert Johnson
Chailendra Jones
Cristyne Lawson
Tony Martinez
Audrey Mason
Jim Mcmillan
Charles Moore
Sally Neal
Pearl Reynolds
Allen Richards
Augustine Rios
Christine Spencer
Carolyn Stanford
Claude Thompson
Roy Thompson
Ben Vargas
Jacqueline Walcott
Barbara Wright
Michael Wright
Gloria Higdon
Sherman Sneed
Ella Thompson
Royce Wallace
19 of these 47 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 28 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
- Robert Lewis
- Choreographer
- Jack Cole
- 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
Jamaica (book musical with new music) Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 868
- Lena Home was a popular success in the Harold Arlen/E.Y. Harburg musical Jamaica (1957), with Ricardo Montalban. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 180
- In addition to the delightful simplicity of his lyrics for the movie The Wizard of Oz, he contributed the unmistakably Harburgian words to the songs of Bloomer Girl, Finian’s Rainbow, Jamaica, and the underrated, cult shows Flahooley, The Happiest Girl in the World, and Darling of the Day. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 41
- with Sig Herzig, then creating, on his own, the librettos for Finian’s Rainbow (1947), Flahooley (1951), and Jamaica (1957). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 343
- Jamaica was a hit, but only by virtue of the star’s performance. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 552
- Merrick had broken color-blind lines before, visibly so in 1957 when he forced the stagehands’ local to accept black stagehands for Jamaica. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 770
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 Jamaica at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.