The run closed November 30, 1974
- Opened
- October 6, 1974
- Closed
- November 30, 1974
- Performances
- 66
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Majestic Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 231st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it41 named
John Almberg
Cheryl Armstrong
Claudia Asbury
Tom Batten
Roger A Bigelow
Frank Bouley
Gerard Brentte
Lonnie Burr
Helen Butleroff
Chrystal Chambers
Nancy Dafgek
Prudence Darby
Chet D Elia
Nancy C Evers
Elaine Handel
Paula Lynn
Richard Maxon
Bert Michaels
Patricia Michaels
Jonathan Miele
Christopher Murney
Don Percassi
Carol Perea
Frank Root
L J Rose
Rita Rudner
Marie Santell
Marianne Selbert
Stanley Simmonds
Jo Speros
Geordie Withee
Jess Richards
9 of these 41 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 32 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
- Gower Champion
- Choreographer
- Gower Champion
- Orchestrations
- Ph
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
The musical ends back in 1938 on the soundstage: Mack tells us he made one final movie with Mabel, but that it was never released; Mabel has since died.
while trying out his ext musical-in-trouble, the 1974 Mack & Mabel, “Everybody must be replaced in this business someday,” Stewart said while trying out his ext musical-in-trouble, the 1974 Mack & Mabel, “but if I’m fool enough to get myself in that position again, I promise you I won't go out with any dignity.
Stewart. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 830(“Everybody must be replaced in this business someday,” Stewart said while trying out his ext musical-in-trouble, the 1974 Mack & Mabel,…”
Speaker not recorded. More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 829while trying out his ext musical-in-trouble, the 1974 Mack & Mabel, “Everybody must be replaced in this business someday,” Stewart said while trying out his ext musical-in-trouble, the 1974 Mack & Mabel, “but if I’m fool enough to get myself in that position again, I promise you I won't go out with any dignity.
Stewart. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 830- Champion had been ill for several years; a mysterious, lingering condition had first appeared during Mack & Mabel in 1974, postponing rehearsals, cutting short that show’s tryout, and apparently contributing to its fatalistic outlook. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 329
- (Kippy, who under similar circumstances was maneuvered out of credit on Stewart’s Mack & Mabel [1974], held out for outlandish “by arrangement with” billing (listed above the names of the actual producers.) With that settled and the money in place, J Love My Wife began rehearsals. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 482
- Whatever the ultimate fate of Mack & Mabel, it finally established Peters as a star. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 586
- Mack € Mabel was intrinsically flawed in conception. What made Sennett’s films work, Gower told a reporter covering the tryout, “were incredible mechanical gags—buildings falling down, horses riding through living rooms, cars going off piers. What do I have? One adorable fire engine.” More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 587
- [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 Mack & Mabel at all.
- No show page for Mack & Mabel. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.