The run closed June 23, 1962
- Opened
- December 27, 1961
- Closed
- June 23, 1962
- Performances
- 205
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- St. James Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 117th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it39 named
Grayson Hall
Cy Young
Helen Baisley
Diane Ball
Carlos Bas
Vicki Belmonte
Joel Craig
Pepe de Chazza
Robert Evans
Bob Gorman
Stokely Gray
Joe Hill
Horase
Robert Howard
Reby Howells
Gene Kelton
Victoria Mansfield
Jeannine Michael
Wendy Nickerson
Bruce Payton
Larry Roquemore
Sandra Roveta
Anthony Saverino
Joan Sheller
Ruth Shepard
Ron Stratton
Dean Taliaferro
Gene Varrone
Jim Weiss
Eugene R Wood
Betty Munro
8 of these 39 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 31 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
- Michael Kidd
- 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
- Despite a better-than-average score, which featured “Comes Once in a Lifetime,” the show played only 205 performances. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 133
- Michael Kidd, Mark Breaux, and Jule Styne during rehearsals for Subways Are For Sleeping, 1961. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 537
- Subways Are for Sleeping (12/27/61; 205 performances) was the threesome’s next offering. Sydney Chaplin, Carol Lawrence, Orson Bean, and Phyllis Newman starred. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 539
- His next role, as Nick Arnstein in a third Styne musical, Funny Girl, became his swan song to the musical stage. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 38
- In Subways Are for Sleeping, Orson Bean is enthralled by a towel-clad (and Tony-winning) Phyllis Newman as Miss America-loser “Martha Vail, in a musical dramatic playlet written and directed by herself” Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 169
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 Subways Are For Sleeping at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.