The run closed March 3, 1956
- Opened
- January 27, 1955
- Closed
- March 3, 1956
- Performances
- 461
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Mark Hellinger Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 61st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it78 named
Will Able
Saint Amant
Ethel May Cody
Faith Daltry
Joan Darby
Crandall Diehl
Ina Hahn
Janet Hayes
Marcia Howard
Ray Hyson
Jack Irwin
Robert Kole
Sybil Lamb
Lucia Lambert
Ronnie Lee
Robert Lindgren
Elaine Lynn
Betty Mcguire
James S Moore
Philip Nasta
Renee Orin
Chris Robinson
Douglas Fletcher Rodgers
James Schlader
Muriel Shaw
Robert St Clair
Tao Strong
Herbert Surface
Edgar F Thompson
Beryl Towbin
William Weslow
David Wood
Tim Worthington
Betty Zollinger
Laurie Carroll
Jimmy Allison
Andora
Adele Baker
Olga Bergstrom
Cathy Conklin
Charles Czarny
Cecile Descant
Jeff Duncan
Don Emmons
Martha Flynn
Nina Greer
Jessica Haist
Andora Hegin
Reby Howells
Diana Hunter
Norma Kaiser
Roy King
Nancy Lynch
Julienne Marie
Ellen McCown
Elaine Pallie
Hunter Ross
Jimmy Ryan
Eddie Weston
Faye Winfield
20 of these 78 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 58 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
- Morton Da Costa
- Choreographer
- Helen Tamiris
- Producer
- Richard Kollmar & James Gardiner
- Orchestrations
- Philip J. Lang
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
- The musicals of the post-Oklahoma! era seemed overly populated with these hoyden Jejune Allyson types (Daisy in Bloomer Girl, Hildy in On the Town, Carrie in Carousel, Lois in Kiss Me, Kate, Cissy in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Lola in Seventeen, and Hilda in Plain and Fancy). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 57
- The London production opened at the Drury Lane on January 25, 1956, for a run of 315 performances; Shirl Conway and Richard Derr reprised their Broadway roles, and Philip Nasta (who danced in the original production) reproduced Helen Tamiris’s choreography. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 447
- the Winter Garden Theatre was the place to watch her because she appeared there six times, first as a chorus-dancer replacement in Plain and Fancy, later in Shangri-La, and then in the current Ziegfeld Follies; three months after the latter closed, Lawrence was back at the Winter Garden as Maria in the original product… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 614
- In the 1954 production, Barbara Cook had played the secondary female role of Carrie Pipperidge; in the intervening years she had created two roles on Broadway (Hilda in Plain and Fancy and Cunegonde in Candide ), and so this time around she was Julie Jordan, the musical’s leading lady Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 650
- The incidental music for the drama was composed by Albert Hague, whose first Broadway musical Plain and Fancy opened in 1955; in 1959 he won the Tony Award for Best Composer for his score for Redhead . Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 885
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 character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Plain And Fancy at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.