The run closed April 23, 1961
- Opened
- October 17, 1960
- Closed
- April 23, 1961
- Performances
- 216
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Richard Rodgers Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 110th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it47 named
Jere Admire
Lee Becker
Raymond Bramley
Carvel Carter
Gordon Cook
Lanier Davis
Nancy Emes
David Evans
Roy Fant
Bob Fitch
John Ford
Dorothy Frank
Margery Gray
Stokely Gray
Maria Graziano
Mickey Gunnersen
Joe Hill
Jordon Howard
Gail Johnston
Irene Kane
Sandy Leeds
Erin Martin
Jack Mccann
Dargan Montgomery
Christine Norden
Patsy Peterson
Wakefield Poole
Marjorie Pragon
Claire Richard
Michael Roberts
Elaine Rogers
Marguerite Shaw
Ron Stratton
Jayne Turner
Pat Turner
Margaret Gathright
Mary Roche
Kenneth Urmston
9 of these 47 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 38 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
- George Abbott
- Choreographer
- 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
Perhaps for the first time, it was brought home to the public the stakes involved, and the decline of a system that could produce an evening so obviously headed for doom.
- The team’s songs for The Body Beautiful were tuneful and lively, and the next year they wrote the score for the long-running Pulitzer Prize-winning Fiorello! , and during the next eleven years were represented on Broadway five times with Tenderloin (1960), She Loves Me (1963), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), The Apple Tree… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 675
- The same team, Bock and Harnick, and book writers Abbott and Jerome Weidman couldn’t repeat their success with Tenderloin (10/17/60; 216 performances), which opened at the 46th Street Theatre. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 27
- Their next effort was also a period piece. Tenderloin (10/17/ 60) starred Maurice Evans as a righteous minister who took it upon himself to clean up the notorious Tenderloin section of Manhattan. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 94
- TENDERLOIN took place in a little older New York than FIORELLO! [November 23, 1959] and switched from inside politics to inside vice. The creators did a fine job with the colorful bad guys (and dolls) in numbers like Little Old New York and the sparkling Picture of Happiness; but the good guys in the story—a reforming… Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 286
- Then, for a dozen years that stretched over the decade of the 1960s, they combined their talents in the creation of seven Broadway shows: The Body Beautiful ( 1958 ), Fiorello! (1959), Tenderloin (1960), She Loves Me (1963), Fiddler on the Roof ( 1964 ), The Apple Tree ( 1966)-actually three one-acters-and The Rothschi… Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 390
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 Tenderloin at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.