The run closed February 24, 1962
- Opened
- October 3, 1961
- Closed
- February 24, 1962
- Performances
- 167
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadhurst Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 133rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it44 named
Jere Admire
Bobby Allen
Don Atkinson
Paula Bauersmith
Gary Crabbe
C Stafford Dickens
David Evans
Pat Ferrier
Dorothy Frank
Anne Fraser
James Frasher
Patricia Harty
Alan Helms
Curtis Hood
Wish Mary Hunt
Cheryl Kilgren
Bridget Knapp
Henry Lawrence
Nancy Lynch
Patti Mariano
Margaret Mower
Mary Ellen O Keefe
Paul O Keefe
Alan Peterson
Keith Prentice
James Pritchett
Jon Richards
Evelyn Russell
Dennis Scott
Alice Shanahan
Dan Siretta
Gloria Stevens
Christopher Votos
Richard Woods
10 of these 44 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 34 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
- Noël Coward
- Choreographer
- Joe Layton
- Orchestrations
- Irwin Ko
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
"The whole thing is quite obviously headed for enormous success," wrote Noel Coward in his diary during rehearsals for Sail Away (Broadhurst; Oct.
- Expert comedienne Elaine Stritch had the lead in Noel Coward’s last musical comedy, Sail Away!, an underwhelming pastiche, for 167 performances in 1961. Broadway Bound A Guide To Shows That Died Aborning, p. 489
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 Sail Away! at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.