The run closed May 27, 1967
- Opened
- March 28, 1967
- Closed
- May 27, 1967
- Performances
- 65
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Neil Simon Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 242nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it40 named
Diane Arnold
Lucille Blackton
Donald Burr
June Lynn Compton
Peter de Nicola
Frank Desal
Glenn Dufford
Carol Estey
Janet Fox
Leslie Franzos
Luigi Gasparinetti
Altovise Gore
Cliff Hall
Carol Hanzel
Del Hinkley
Joe Kirkland
Mary Loane
Rita Metzger
Duane Morris
Denise Nickerson
Carol Perea
Roger Allan Raby
Jeannette Seibert
Haydon Smith
Merritt Smith
Doug Spingler
Ted Sprague
Paula Trueman
Trudy Wallace
Barbara Webb
Byron Webster
Clyde Williams
8 of these 40 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 32 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
- Joe Layton
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
Director Morton Da Costa and choreographer Ron Field were both replaced during troubled tryouts by Joe Layton. The show was based on the classic Kaufman and Hart comedy inspired by Alexander Woollcott.
Kevin Kelly of the Boston Globe was so outraged that even two months later, when a musical called Sherry! opened, he called it “so awful that it makes Holly Golightly look like a nostalgic work of art, and no, I’m not kidding.”
Speaker not recorded. Broadway Musicals the Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of Filichia Peter New Yor, p. 63- Sherry! (1967). Finally, a palpable hit arrived in October 1967, when Tom Stoppards coruscating play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 292
- Her last original role in a musical was the short-lived Sherry!, in which she considerably brightened the proceedings with her trademark verve. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 90
- These were the same gentlemen who in 1967 produced Sherry!, and who in 1974 had the bright idea of transmogrifying the twenty-five-year-old Carol Channing vehicle Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949) into the Carol Channing vehicle Lorelei. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 131
- Choreographer Ron Field (who was also fired from Ais prior show, Sherry! [1967]. What a way to follow up Cabaret [1966]). More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 364
- Da Costa was to receive only one Broadway musical assignment from 1967 until his death in 1989, and Maggie Flynn was it. But then, this was a year before Kent State. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 593
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 Sherry! at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.