The run closed January 17, 1959
- Opened
- April 3, 1958
- Closed
- January 17, 1959
- Performances
- 332
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- August Wilson Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 92nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it31 named
Julie Marlowe
Wendell Marshall
Jean Mattox
Horace Mcmahon
Charles Morrell
Carolyn Morris
Jack Naughton
Richard Tone
Calvin von Reinhold
Eddie Albert
Hal England
Lou Stein
Paula Wayne
20 of these 31 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 11 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
- Abe Burrows
- Choreographer
- Matt Mattox
- Producer
- Jule Styne and Lester Osterman (George Gilbert, Associate Producer)
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
He immediately went into the Music The- ate of Lincoln Center revival of Show Boat, playing a jaunty Cap’n Andy, fol- lowed by his best musical role since Finian’s Rainbow, the warm and wise Grandpére in The Happy Time, charming audiences with “The Life of the Party” and “A Certain Girl.” Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 112
- In 1958, Richard Bissell’s novel, Say, Darling, which the author had based on his experience with The Pajama Game, was itself turned into a musical by Bissell, his wife Marian, and Abe Burrows. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 156
- "After seeing his novel adapted into a successful musical for which he cowrote the script, Richard Bissell was inspired to write Say, Darling , a book about a writer’s observations when his novel is adapted into a musical. This slightly Pirandelloesque approach resulted in the book Say, Darling being adapted into a sem… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 394
- and in 1957 Bissell wrote the novel Say, Darling , which was based on his exper Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 700
- During the tryout, the song “In My Little Yellow Dress” was deleted but later reinstated when the musical was revived by the New York City Center Light Opera Company a month after the Broadway closing. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 702
- The New York City Center Light Opera Company’s production of Say, Darling opened a month after the musical’s Broadway closing where it had played for a disappointing 332 performances and lost a good portion of its investment. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 758
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 Say, Darling at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.