The run closed May 30, 1970
- Opened
- March 26, 1970
- Closed
- May 30, 1970
- Performances
- 80
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 195th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it32 named
Jacqueline Britt
Bjarne Buchtrup
George Bunt
Deede Darnell
Joan B Duffin
Marjory Edson
Arny Freeman
Lynne Gannaway
Merwin Goldsmith
Ronn Hansen
Julie Kurnitz
Elaine Manzel
Barbara Monte Britton
Gary Raucher
Stephen Reinhardt
Casper Roos
Gene Ross
Carole Schweid
William W Sean
Evelyn Taylor
Roland Winters
Toodie Wittmer
10 of these 32 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 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.
Characters15 roles recorded
Shelley Winters Minnie Marx
Lewis J. Stadlen Julius "Groucho" Marx
Irwin Pearl Leonard "Chico" Marx
Daniel Fortus Adolph "Harpo" Marx
Alvin Kupperman Herbert "Zeppo" Marx
Gary Raucher Milton "Gummo" Marx
Arny Freeman Sam "Frenchie" Marx
Mort Marshall Al Shean
Roland Winters E.F. Albee
Merwin Goldsmith Hochmeister
Richard B. Shull Maxie
Julie Kurnitz Mrs. McNish
Jean Bruno Mrs. Flanagan
Jacqueline Britt Mrs. Krupnik
Emily Shoolin Miss Murdock
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
- Stanley Prager
- Choreographer
- Marc Breaux
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
Minnie's Boys is a musical with a book by Arthur Marx (Groucho Marx's son) and Robert Fisher, music by Larry Grossman, and lyrics by Hal Hackady. It provides a behind-the-scenes look at the early days of the Marx Brothers and their relationship with their mother Minnie Marx, the driving force behind their ultimate success.
Minnie’s Boys (March 26, 1970) More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1093
What? No Lewis J. Stadlen for his funny yet poignant and believable young Groucho Marx in Minnie’s Boys ?
Speaker not recorded. B007l4owcu Ebok Peter Filichia, p. 94played the Marx Brothers’ mother in the 1970 flop Minnie’s Boys . “I still don’t know what the hell happened.”
Speaker not recorded. Broadway Babylon Boze Hadleigh, p. 298“she had to do it to bolster her confidence.”—actress JULIE KURNITZ of Minnie’s Boys (1970), starring Shelley Winters as the Marx Brothers’ mother
Speaker not recorded. Broadway Babylon Boze Hadleigh, p. 382- The Marx Brothers were leading characters in two later Broadway musicals: the biographical Minnie’s Boys (1970) Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 59
- Minnie’s Boys (3/26/70; 76 performances) was a musi calization of the early career of the Marx Brothers and starred Shelley Winters. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 279
- “Five Growing Boys” (from Minnie’s Boys), “Addie’s at It gain” (from I Had a Ball), “Desert Moon” (from Golden Rainbow). or “Where Is the Tribe for Me?” from Bajour). We just love that all-American, 100 percent pasteurized processed cheese, and the cheesier the better. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 168
- Shelley Winters as Minnie Marx, mother to “Five Growing Boys” in the Guilty Pleasure Minnie’s Boys, with an often enjoyable score by the flop-prone team of Larry Grossman and Hal Hackady. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 169
- A couple of other off-balance shows leap to mind. In Minnie’s Boys, it’s the Marx brothers you care about, but the lead went to Shelley Winters, play- Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 319
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 Minnie’s Boys at all.
- No show page for Minnie’s Boys. 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.