The run closed December 14, 1969
- Opened
- December 14, 1969
- Closed
- December 14, 1969
- Performances
- 1
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 572nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it31 named
John Coe
Peggy Cooper
Anne Hegira
Lucille Patton
Loretta Abbott
Lisa Bellaran
Glenn Brooks
Connie Burnett
Robert Carle
Paul Charles
Barbara Christopher
Betsy Dickerson
Harry Endicott
Anna Maria Fanizzi
Nino Galanti
Rodney Griffin
Mickey Gunnerson
Kenneth Kreel
Don Lopez
Joyce Maret
Odette Panaccione
Mary Ann Robbins
Steven Ross
Larry Small
Eileen Taylor
6 of these 31 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 25 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
- Alan Schneider
- Choreographer
- Alvin Ailey
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
Alan Schneider, who had won his reputation by directing Albee, Pinter, and Beckett, was hired to direct his first musical (he directed another one the following year, Blood Red Roses, which lasted one night), and Alvin Ailey was the choreographer.
- She made her Broadway musical debut in the bio-musical George M!, starring Joel Grey, and, after costarring in the mega-flop La Strada and an On the Town revival, she portrayed tragic silent-screen star Mabel Normand opposite the wonderful Robert Preston in Mack and Mabel. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 248
- Bouncing back from another disaster in La Strada, he replaced Dean Jones in Company shortly after opening, becoming the only actor in history to be deemed eligible for a Tony Award nomination though not a member of the original cast. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 325
- Larry Kert—juvenile of Prince’s West Side Story and A Family Affair (1962), more recently languishing in Breakfast at Tiffany’ (1966) and La Strada (1969)—stepped into the role and made it (ambiguously) his. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 218
- Bernadette Peters, Joel Grey’s sister in Stewart’s George M! (1967) and the Ruby Keeler-ish ingénue in the Off-Broadway Dames at Sea (1968), had already starred in not one but three musical flops: Lionel Bart’s La Strada (1969); the 1971 revival of On the Town; and as Carlotta Monti, opposite Mickey Rooney’s Bill Field… More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 586
- [with 5 pans] Ambassador Ari Billy A Broadway Musical Coco Good News Goodtime Charley Her First Roman Here’s Where I Belong I Remember Mama La Strada Mack & Mabel Merrily We Roll Along Molly Music Is Oh, Brother! Rainbow Jones Rex So Long, 174th Street Timbuktu! A Time for Singing The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall Via… More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1075
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 La Strada at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.