The run closed December 28, 1963
- Opened
- October 17, 1963
- Closed
- December 28, 1963
- Performances
- 82
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Majestic Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 218th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it33 named
Sally Ackerman
Martin Ambrose
Brian Chapin
Diane Coupe
Jack de Lon
Linda Donovan
Stephen Elmore
Blair Hammond
Misty
Jeremiah Morris
Robert Murray
Lispet Nelson
Oran Osburn
Sean Peters
Al Sambogna
Julie Sargant
Bernice Saunders
Connie Scott
Debbie Scott
Kirby Smith
Mollie Sterns
Elaine Swann
Sharon Vaughn
Jay Velie
George D Wallace
Stan Watt
7 of these 33 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 26 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
- Vincent J. Donehue
- Choreographer
- Matt Mattox
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
When the musical stalled, and Laurette was made into a nonmusical for Judy Holliday which closed after a week in New Haven in 1960, Martin's vehicle was to be based on a book about Laurette and her first husband, the melodrama king Charles A.
- Mary Martin in the flop musical Jennie, supposedly based on the early career of actress Laurette Taylor. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 272
- Next came one of Martin’s few failures, Jennie (10/ 17/63; 82 performances). The musical, based on the early career of actor Laurette Taylor, had a score by Mary Martin in The Sound of Music, 1959. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 359
- The best element of JENNIE was the music, including the final beautiful Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 281
- Jennie, their 1963 vehicle for Mary Martin, played for 82 showings. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 369
- Golden Age musicals: ... Jennie, 10/17/63; Anyone Can Whistle, 4/4/64... The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre 1943 1965 Naden Corinne J Rowman Litt, p. 206
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 Jennie at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.