The run closed May 25, 1957
- Opened
- April 13, 1957
- Closed
- May 25, 1957
- Performances
- 49
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadway Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 311th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it34 named
Reri Grist
Carmen Gutierrez
Buzz Halliday
Moses Lamarr
Bruce Mackay
James Marley
Larry Montaigne
Albert Popwell
Jack Rains
Nora Reho
Howard Roberts
Dorothy Scott
Elizabeth Taylor
Claude Thompson
Myrna White
David Winters
19 of these 34 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
- Sawyer Falk
- Choreographer
- Rod Alexander, Arthur Mitchell
- Producer
- Peter Lawrence
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
While Shinbone Alley's plot was thin, it had abundant charm and daring, and Rod Alexander's choreography was among the best of its time.
Shinbone Alley (book musical with new music) Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 868
- Even such also-rans as Shinbone Alley (1957), Oh Captain! (1958), and First Impressions (1959) Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 4
- Incidentally, for Shinbone Alley , Chita Rivera was Eartha Kitt’s standby, and Tom Poston was Eddie Bracken’s. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 629
- Mel Brooks and Joe Darion made a musical of Don Marquis's archy and mehitabel, called Shinbone Alley, but Eartha Kitt, Eddie Bracken, and others could not turn it into gold. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 210
- whose past included two musical comedy nightmares—Shinbone Alley (1957) and All American (1962)—and whose future included the 1968 film The Producers. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 532
- Shinbone Alley, the ill-advised 1957 musicalization of archy and mehitabel—to his credit. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 608
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 Shinbone Alley at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.