The run closed November 24, 1951
- Opened
- June 21, 1951
- Closed
- November 24, 1951
- Performances
- 182
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadhurst Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 150th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Seventeen 1 more that season
| 1918 | Booth Theatre Original | 225 perf. |
Who was in it33 named
Henry Lawrence
Dorothy Manko
Sherry Mccutcheon
Jim Moore
Harrison Muller
Kenneth Nelson
Darrell Notara
Bill Nuss
Greg O Brien
Elizabeth Pacetti
Bill Reilly
Betty Jane Seagle
John Sharpe
Jeanne Shea
Ray Thomas
18 of these 33 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 15 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
- Staging by Hassard Short, Richard Whorf, Hassard Short
- Choreographer
- Dania Krupska
- Producer
- Milton Berle, Sammy Lambert, and Bernie Foyer
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
This time, it was Atkinson who gave the show its best review; otherwise, the notices were mixed.
- 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
- A musical version of Seventeen (1951) fared much better, playing for 180 performances. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 122
- Seventeen was the only Broadway score by the team of Kim Gannon and Walter Kent. The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 192
- The musical didn’t produce any popular standards, but they wrote one of the most enduring of all holiday songs with their sweet and poignant “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.” Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 191
- Dancer and future Broadway choreographer Donia (later, Dania) Krupska was the featured performer during the Chester Hale’s Girls sequence (she later danced in the original Broadway production of Can-Can, and choreographed the original Broadway productions of such musicals as Seventeen) The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 572
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 Seventeen at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.