The run closed January 4, 1975
- Opened
- March 6, 1974
- Closed
- January 4, 1975
- Performances
- 341
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Shubert Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 72nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Over Here! 1 more that season
| 1918 | Fulton Theatre Original | 23 perf. |
Who was in it24 named
William Griffis
Bette Henritze
William Newman
April Shawhan
Phyllis Somerville
Douglass Watson
Jim Weston
Sudie Bond
Alexandra Borrie
Robert Polenz
Joy Rinaldi
Paul Reid Roman
Kate Wilkinson
11 of these 24 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 13 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
- Tom Moore
- Choreographer
- Patricia Birch
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
Over Here! is a musical with a score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman and book by Will Holt. The original Broadway production was directed by Tom Moore and choreographed by Patricia Birch, with scenic design by Douglas W. Schmidt and costumes by Carrie F. Robbins. Over Here! was a follow-up to the Sherman brothers' World War II musical Victory Canteen, an off-Broadway production that featured 1940s icon Patty Andrews. The setting is a cross-country train trip in the United States during World War II (hence the name of the play, in contrast to the popular patriotic war anthem entitled Over There). The show begins as a nostalgic look at 1940s America (where fashion, music, big bands…
Ernestine lost the supporting actress award to Janie Sell (from Over Here!). Offstage Observations Inside Tales of the Steven Suskin Theodore S Chapin Rowman, p. 256
The first Broadway show I saw was Over Here! when I was really little. It was in the Shubert. Ann Reinking was in it, and John Travolta. I remember thinking Ann Reinking was the most astounding-looking creature I’d ever seen. It was great. I loved it.
Speaker not recorded. Untold Stories of Broadway Volume 2 Part 1 the Jennifer Tepper, p. 354When the Andrews Sisters were in Over Here!, after the curtain call they did a ten minute medley of all their big hits. Of course, the cast had to
Speaker not recorded. Show and Tell the New Book of Broadway Anecdotes Ken Bloom Bloom Ken Oxford Univ, p. 225- Over Here! (1974), this one a resuscitation of the 1940s wartime movie. Anything Goes A History of American Musical Theatre Ethan Mordden, p. 299
- Comeback: The Andrews Sisters (Over Here! ) Rookies: Janie Sell (Over Here! ) B007l4owcu Ebok Peter Filichia, p. 2
- Any fan of 1940s music will be able to identify the two women on the right: Patty and Maxene Andrews, two members of the sister-act trio that sold millions of records. But who’s that woman on the left? Why, Janie Sell, who stood in for Laverne Andrews (who’d died in 1967) for the 1974 musical Over Here! B007l4owcu Ebok Peter Filichia, p. 96
- After Grease, Waissman and Fox regressed a decade and produced a musical about the 1940s. Over Here! ran approximately one-tenth as long as Grease, and the partnership split. B007l4owcu Ebok Peter Filichia, p. 110
- Nevertheless, even four months after the closing, Bennett was remembered at Tony time. He even won over the choreographers of two currently running shows, Raisin and Over Here! B007l4owcu Ebok Peter Filichia, p. 117
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 Over Here! at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.