The run closed June 11, 1966
- Opened
- November 13, 1965
- Closed
- June 11, 1966
- Performances
- 248
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 98th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it37 named
Donald Burr
Nancy Cushman
Dick O Neill
Lesley Stewart
John Anania
Barbara Beck
Eleanor Bergquist
Burt Bier
Trudy Carson
Ray Chabeau
Pola Chapelle
Marilyn Charles
Georgia Creighton
Ceil Delli
Ellen Graff
Christian Grey
Curtis Hood
Lauren Jones
Gene Kelton
Maryann Kerrick
Ray Kirchner
Darrell Notara
Randy Phillips
Renata Powers
Casper Roos
Paul Sorvino
Bill Starr
Kent Thomas
Scott Hunter
8 of these 37 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 29 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.
Characters8 roles recorded
Julie Harris Georgina Allerton
Nancy Cushman Lucy Allerton
Donald Burr William Allerton
Lesley Stewart Charlotte
Charles Nelson Reilly Roger Summerhill
Rex Everhart Stanley
Dick O'Neill Herbert Bushman
Peter Marshall Timothy Bushman
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Cy Feuer
- Choreographer
- Michael Kidd
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 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
Perhaps Kilgallen, who died just before Skyscraper opened, helped the show: her prediction of doom may have led critics to expect the worst, which Skyscraper was not.
The public didn’t buy it, though, and Skyscraper was unable to scrape by. More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 875
- SKYSCRAPER! [November 13, 1965] and WALKING HAPPY? [November 26, 1966] (both with music by Jimmy Van Heusen). Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 266
- Skyscraper was more successful but less happy backstage (its lyricist Sammy Cahn found it ‘a devastating experience’). West End Broadway the Golden Age of the American Musical Adrian Wright Boydell B, p. 242
- More successful but less happy backstage (its lyricist Sammy Cahn found it ‘a devastating experience’) was Skyscraper (248). West End Broadway the Golden Age of the American Musical In London Adrian Wright, p. 287
- Rosalind Russell in Wonderful Town (1953), Tony Randall in Oh Captain! (1958), Lucille Ball in Wildcat (1960), Julie Harris in Skyscraper (1965), and Katharine Hepburn in Coco (1969) demonstrate that the musical’s cultural prestige now attracted even Hollywood folk or, in Harris’ case, “real” actors. Anything Goes A History of American Musical Theatre Ethan Mordden, p. 213
- These are the people who know that Charles Nelson Reilly replaced Victor Spinetti in Skyscraper, that Pacific Overtures played its two out-of-town tryouts in Boston and Washington, and that RCA Victor would have recorded Foxy in 1964 if the damned thing had run longer. Broadway Musicals the Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of Filichia Peter New Yor, p. 234
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 recording is held for Skyscraper at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.