The run closed November 21, 1964
- Opened
- November 10, 1964
- Closed
- November 21, 1964
- Performances
- 15
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Eugene O'Neill Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 416th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it32 named
Joan Bell
Bob Bishop
Joan Copeland
Natalie di Silvio
Laurie Franks
Shari Greene
Victor R Helou
Steve Jacobs
Kenny Kealy
Paula Kelly
Lynn Kollenberg
Bobbi Lange
James Lavery
Richard Lyle
Christopher Man
Marilyn Murphy
Katey O Brady
Barry Preston
Connie Sanchez
Neva Small
Jo Jo Smith
Bill Starr
Edmond Varrato
Mimi Wallace
Eric White
7 of these 32 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 25 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
- Jule Styne
- Choreographer
- Bob Herget
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
Barbara Cook was not quite a star in the way Alfred Drake, John Raitt, Mary Martin, or Judy Holliday were.
- William Goldenberg (dance music arranger of Bennett’s early Henry, Sweet Henry [1967]) and the Bergmans (whose only show had been the 1964 flop Something More!) had provided the incidental songs for TV. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 105
- Alas, they turned out to be a trio of 1964 offerings from producer Lester Osterman—High Spirits, Fade Out—Fade In, and Something More!—and the specimen at hand. Henry's teenaged chorus girls pretty much described the proceed-ings in the very opening number More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 449
- In the scramble by record companies to capture the next big hit, ABC-Paramount-On Stage plunked down one million bucks for half-interests in four big Broadway musicals. Alas, they turned out to be a trio of 1964 offerings from producer Lester Osterman—High Spirits, Fade Out—Fade In, and Something More!—and the specimen… More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 448
- Fain, who wrote five consecutive Broadway musical flops (Toplitzky of Notre Dame, Flahooley, Ankles Aweigh, Christine, Something More! ), never failed to come up with a few catchy tunes, and the cast recording of Ankles Aweigh is the kind that collectors rarely admit to playing as often as they do. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 42
- Of the flops, one—Something More! (Eugene O’Neill; Nov. 10, ’64; 15)—had virtually nothing going for it except Cook. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 65
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 Something More! at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.