The run closed August 3, 1963
- Opened
- March 15, 1962
- Closed
- August 3, 1963
- Performances
- 580
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Adelphi Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 38th 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.
Who was in it55 named
Paul Cambeilh
Susanne Cansino
Julie Drake
Jean Eliot
Ginny Gan
Gene Gebauer
Ellen Graff
Ann Hodges
Diana Hrubetz
Kay Hudson
Scott Hunter
Alan Johnson
Sandy Leeds
Michael Maurer
Larry Merritt
Anna Marie Moylan
David Neuman
Patti Pappathatos
Janet Paxton
Dellas Rennie
Bea Salten
Carol Sherman
Calvin von Reinhold
Mary Zahn
Dick Colacino
Dorothy Frank
Curtis Hood
Ruth Anne King
Nancy Lynch
Robert Goss
Beti Seay
Jere Admire
Donna Baccala
Elinor Coffee
Jean Duguid
Ellen Fluhr
Linda Rae Hager
Ellen Halpin
Astrida Jakobson
Judy Keirn
Joe Mcwherter
Louise Quick
Walter Stratton
12 of these 55 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 43 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
- Joe Layton
- Choreographer
- Joe Layton
- Producer
- Richard Rodgers
- Orchestrations
- Ralph Burns
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
No Strings, the only show for which Rodgers wrote music and lyrics, opens at the 54th Street Theater and runs for 580 performances. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 27
- Richard Rodgers fared better with No Strings, the first musical for which he wrote both music and lyrics, with a book by Samuel Taylor. The show moved here 105 At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 123
- He musical debut as the juvenile lead in Kismet, singing ‘ Redhead, and was almost continually employed through the 1960s, as the r tic lead of No Strings and in the Buddy Hackett vehicle / Had a Ball. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 213
- Carroll as Clara, the mother who sings “Summertime,” did not sing Clara onstage, but she was nonetheless an able singer who before long would record an album of Porgy and Bess songs and even starred in a Tony Award–winning performance of Richard Rodgers’s No Strings; Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 215
- The result, the biracial romance No Strings (1962) with Diahann Carroll and Richard Kiley in the principal roles, turned out to be Rodgers’s final success (580 performances), albeit a modest one by the standards of Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 260
- CARROLL, DIAHANN (BORN CAROL DIAHANN JOHNSON, 1935– ). African American film and television star who starred in House of Flowers (1954) and won a Tony Award for her performance as Barbara Woodruff in Richard Rodgers’s No Strings (1962). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 97
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 No Strings at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.