The run closed July 19, 1958
- Opened
- February 4, 1958
- Closed
- July 19, 1958
- Performances
- 192
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Neil Simon Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 141st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it43 named
Sally Gura
Dee Harless
Birgitta Kiviniemi
David Lober
Bruce Mackay
Gordon Marsh
Sheila Matthews
Betty Mcguire
Asia Mercoolova
Kiki Minor
Alice Nunn
Mona Pivar
Louis Polacek
George Ritner
Adriane Rogers
Tony Rossi
Charles Rule
Sybil Scotford
Doug Spingler
James Stevenson
Mona Tritsch
Ken Urmston
Nolan van Way
Eddie Verso
Helene Whitney
18 of these 43 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 25 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
- Jose Ferrer
- Choreographer
- James Starbuck
- Producer
- Howard Merrill and Theatre Corporation of America
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
Cugat received third billing in the early advertisements but withdrew just before the tryout and was replaced by Edward Platt.
Oh Captain! (book musical with new music) Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 868
- Even such also-rans as Shinbone Alley (1957), Oh Captain! (1958), and First Impressions (1959) Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 4
- r recordings of the score: The Ferrers—Rosemary Clooney and Jose Ferrer Sing Selections from the Broadway Musical Comedy “Oh Captain!” (MGM LP # E-3687); Stan Freeman and His Quartet Play “Oh Captain!” (Columbia LP # CL-1126); and Dancing with “Oh Captain!” played by the Bob Prince Quintet (Harmony HL-70970). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 683
- Tony Award Nominations : Best Musical (Oh Captain! ) Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 684
- Similarly, when Dorothy Lamour succeeded Abbe Lane in Oh Captain! and Ann B. Davis replaced Carol Burnett in Once Upon a Mattress, those musicals quickly disappeared. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 828
- The plot of Between the Devil brings to mind the story of the 1958 musical Oh Captain! in which a “veddy proper” Englishman (played by Tony Randall) shuttles back and forth from England to France with a proper wife at home (Jacquelyn McKeever) and a voluptuous mistress in Paree (Abbe Lane). The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 499
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 Oh Captain! at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.