The run closed December 8, 1973
- Opened
- 1973
- Closed
- December 8, 1973
- Performances
- 296
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- —
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 81st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it53 named
Cecelia Norfleet
John Almberg
Steve Anthony
Cathy Brewer Moore
Eileen Casey
Patti D Beck
Terry Deck
Judy Gibson
Felix Greco
Mitzi Hamilton
Loida Iglesias
Bobby Johnson
Amanda Mcbroom
Judy Mccauley
Michon Peacock
Frank Pietri
Yolanda Raven
Michael Reed
Orrin Reiley
Don Swanson
William Swiggard
Tom Urich
Dona D Vaughn
Clyde Walker
Thomas J Walsh
Chris Wilzak
John Gavin
Joshie Jo Armstead
Lamonte Des Fontaines
David Craig Moskin
Richard Cooper Bayne
Chuck Beard
Pam Blair
Kenneth Carr
Richard Christopher
Marcelo Gamboa
Marilyn Hamilton
Lee Hooper
Debra Lyman
Barbara Monte Britton
Frank H Newell
T Michael Reed
Jimmy Roddy
Michael Serrecchia
Keith Simmons
Allan Sobek
Scott Stevenson
Frolic Taylor
5 of these 53 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 48 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
- Michael Bennett
- Choreographer
- Michael Bennett, Grover Dale, Tommy Tune
- Orchestrations
- Larry Fa
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 2 nominations
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
Seesaw is a 1973 American musical with a book by Michael Bennett, music by Cy Coleman, and lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Based on the William Gibson play Two for the Seesaw, the plot focuses on a brief affair between Jerry Ryan, a young lawyer from Nebraska, and Gittel Mosca, a kooky, streetwise dancer from the Bronx. The musical numbers evoke colorful aspects of New York City life but have relatively little to do with the story. The most notable feature of the score's original orchestrations by Larry Fallon was their wide use of brass instruments.
- The 1973 musical Seesaw, also with songs by Coleman and Fields and a book (though uncredited) by Neil Simon, was another New York tale of an ill-matched too-trusting kook and a too-square guy. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 240
- Another unused song was “It’s Not Where You Start” (in 1973, Dorothy Fields used this title again for Seesaw ). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 375
- William Gibson's Two for the Seesaw (1958), an enchanting two-character love story starring Henry Fonda and Anne Bancroft, ran for almost two years; At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 111
- The theatre's next tenant was much more successful. Seesaw, a musical version of William Gibson's hit comedy Two for the Seesaw, had music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, a book credited to Michael Bennett, and starred Ken Howard and Michele Lee. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 339
- Dorothy Fields’ last Broadway show, Seesaw (3/18/73; 296 performances), was also written in collaboration with Cy Coleman. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 190
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 Seesaw at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.