The run closed November 8, 1958
- Opened
- November 5, 1958
- Closed
- November 8, 1958
- Performances
- 5
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 628th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it8 named
8 of these 8 names have a person record behind them and link to one. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters7 roles recorded
Ruth Kobart Agata
Richard Cross Donato
Herbert Handt Dr Zuckertanz
Patricia Neway The mother
Franca Duval Maria Golovin
Lorenzo Muti Trottolo, her son
William Chapman A prisoner
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Gian Carlo Menotti
- Producer
- David Merrick and The National Broad
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
- These included Menotti’s The Consul (1950), The Saint of Bleecker Street (1954), and Maria Golovin (1958), Jan Meyerowitz’s The Barrier (1950), Samuel Friedman’s (and, to be sure, Verdi’s) My Darlin’ Aida (1952), Jerome Moross’s The Golden Apple , Harold Rome’s Fanny (1954), Blitzstein’s Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 3
- In 1958, David Merrick closed Menotti's Maria Golovin after only five performances allegedly to make way for La Plume de Ma Tante, a revue that subsequently ran on Broadway for over two years. Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 408
- Others enjoyed productions, unconventionally, on Broadway (The Medium and The Telephone [a double bill], The Consul, The Saint ef Bleecker Street, Maria Golovin). Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 415
- Besides the Mother Abbess, Neway created three other “mother” roles in New York within the two-year period of 1958 and 1959: New York City Opera’s premiere of Mark Bucci’s Tale for a Deaf Ear (1958); the Broadway production of Menotti’s Maria Golovin (1958); and New York City Opera’s world premiere of Hugo Weisgall’s S… The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 36
- The first production of Maria Golovin took place on August 20, 1958, at the American Theatre at the U.S. Pavilion at the Brussels Universal and International Exposition in Belgium and was recorded in Italy by RCA Victor (LP # LM-6142), which released a deluxe boxed-set of three LPs and a lavish brochure that included t… The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 735
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 recording is held for Maria Golovin at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.