The run closed January 26, 1963
- Opened
- October 10, 1961
- Closed
- January 26, 1963
- Performances
- 543
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 43rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it72 named
Diane Goldberg
Thelma Pelish
Ellen Berse
Burt Bier
Johnny Borden
Gerald Cardoni
Renato Cibelli
Anthony de Vecchi
Marceline Decker
Ceil Delli
Nina Feinberg
Louis Gasparinetti
Murray Goldkind
Penny Ann Green
Jose Gutierrez
Judith Haskell
Linda Howe
Alex Kotimski
Urylee Leonardos
Rose Lischner
David London
Carlos Macri
Ellen Madison
John Mandia
Terry Marone
Ed Mastin
Susan May
Addi Negri
Michael Nestor
Lou Polacek
Dorothy Richardson
Robert Rue
Dom Salinaro
Reuben Singer
Sandra Stahl
Marilyn Stark
Walter Stratton
Art Tookoyan
Matt Turney
Patti Winston
Jane Zachary
Ralph Farnsworth
John Ford
John Grigas
Nancy Haywood
Marc Hertsens
Mary Hinkson
Jane Meserve
Martin Ross
Terry Saunders
Sybil Scotford
Bella Shalom
George Smiley
Angela Tobias
Mona Tritsch
Judith Younger
George Zima
15 of these 72 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 57 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.
Characters16 roles recorded
Robert Weede Phil Arkin
Mimi Benzell Ruth Stein
Molly Picon Clara Weiss
Lanna Saunders Barbara
Tommy Rall David
Juki Arkin Adi
Ellen Madison Zipporah
Thelma Pelish Mrs. Perlman
Diane Goldberg Mrs. Segal
Rueben Singer Mr. Horowitz
Addi Negri Mrs. Weinstein
Rose Lischner Mrs. Breslin
Ceil Delli Mrs. Kessler
Dorothy Richardson Mr. Strauss
Ellen Berse The Guide
Johnny Borden Shepherd Boy
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
- Albert Marre
- Choreographer
- Donald Saddler
- Producer
- Gerald Oestreicher
- Orchestrations
- Hershy Kay, Eddie Sauter
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
- Along the way, she appeared in the 1958 Oscar-winning musical Gigi , and introduced Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s “I Remember It Well” (with Maurice Chevalier). And during the run of Herman’s Milk and Honey (1961) she replaced Molly Picon. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 169
- Some highlights that originated at the Beck during this decade included Jerry Herman's Milk and Honey (1961), about the new Israel; Anne Bancroft, Barbara Harris, Gene Wilder, and Zohra Lampert in a revival of Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children (1963), staged by Jerome Robbins; Colleen Dewhurst and Michael Dunn i… At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 193
- The production ran for 543 performances, a long run by Broadway standards, yet the young songwriter didn’t receive much notice, because most critics attributed the show’s success to the large Jewish audience for Broadway musicals. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 262
- JERRY HERMAN followed his string of hits—Milk and Honey, Hello, Dolly! and Mame—with a failure, Dear World (2/6/69; 112 performances). Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 355
- Jerry Herman had three big hits in a row at the beginning of his Broadway career, with Milk and Honey, Hello, Dolly!, and Mame. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 178
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 Milk and Honey at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.