The run closed November 3, 1974
- Opened
- January 27, 1974
- Closed
- November 3, 1974
- Performances
- 320
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Palace Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 74th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.
Other stagings of Lorelei 1 more that season
| 1938 | Longacre Theatre Original | 7 perf. |
Who was in it39 named
Ian Tucker
Aniko Farrell
Joela Flood
Marie Halton
Marian Haraldson
Gregg Harlan
Sherrill Harper
Brenda Holmes
Linda Lee Macarthur
Wayne Mattson
Linda Mcclure
Jonathan Miele
Susan Ohman
Gina Ramsel
Jeff Richards
Robert Riker
Rick Schneider
Steve Short
Don Swanson
Roxanna White
David Gold
Joe Bratcher
Paul Eichel
Bonnie Hinson
Randy Hugill
Karen Jablons
Kerry Mcgrath
Chester Walker
11 of these 39 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 Moore
- Choreographer
- Ernest Flatt
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
Lorelei is a musical with a book by Kenny Solms and Gail Parent, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Jule Styne. It is a revision of the Joseph Fields-Anita Loos book for the 1949 production Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and includes many of the Jule Styne-Leo Robin songs written for the original. The 1974 Broadway production of Lorelei, directed by Robert Moore and starring Carol Channing, ran for 320 performances.
LORELEI, OR “GENTLEMEN STILL PREFER BLONDES” January 27, 1974 Palace Theatre * 320 performances Also see GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES [December 8, 1949]. New lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green; New book material by Kenny Solms and Gail Parent (based on GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES); Directed by Robert Moore; Choreographed by Ernest Flatt; Produced by Lee Guber and Shelly Gross; With Carol Channing, D… Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 267
(Solms: “This experience hasn't soured me on the theatre. . . . My last Broadway show was Lorelei [1974]. Another winner,” he added wryly.)
Speaker not recorded. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 727Solms: “This experience hasn't soured me on the theatre... My last Broadway show was Lorelei [1974]. Another winner,” he added wryly.
Speaker not recorded. More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 726- In 1973, a new stage version, called Lorelei, retained ten songs from the original score and added five new ones by Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Carol Channing again headed the cast which included Tamara Long (Dorothy), Peter Palmer (Gus), Lee Roy Reams (Henry), and Jack Fletcher (Sir Francis). The book,… Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 143
- Carol Channing in a revised version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, called Lorelei (1974). At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 87
- These were the same gentlemen who in 1967 produced Sherry!, and who in 1974 had the bright idea of transmogrifying the twenty-five-year-old Carol Channing vehicle Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949) into the Carol Channing vehicle Lorelei. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 131
- Lorelei was at the beginning of a trend, opening way out of town—Oklahoma City, on February 24, 1973—and inching its way (slowly) to Broadway. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 571
- that extended tryout scheme work, anyway? Lorelei was capitalized at $500,000; with all the changes, it cost about $700,000 to get to Broadway. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 572
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 Lorelei at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.