The Boy Friend, 1954

The run closed November 26, 1955

Opened

September 30, 1954

Closed

November 26, 1955

Performances

485

Previews

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Theatre

Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 52nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Boy Friend 2 more that season

Who was in it22 named

Millicent Martin
Joe Milan
Jerry Newby
Lyn Robert
Ann Wakefield

17 of these 22 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 5 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

Vida Hope

Choreographer

John Heawood, John

Producer

Cy Feuer and Ernest G. Martin

Orchestrations

Ted Royal, Charles L. Cooke

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

Around this production

• Thanks to its worldwide reception, No, No, Nanette was probably the most popular musical of the Twenties. It was also the quintessential example of the kind of song-and-dance show of that period that was affectionately satirized in Sandy Wilson’s spoof, The Boy Friend. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 54
• Divorce Me, Darling! was Sandy Wilson’s sequel to The Boy Friend , and it viewed the characters from a decade later. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 407
• Clockwise from above: Julie Andrews (center) and flappers in Sandy Wilson's spoof of the 1920s musicals, The Boy Friend (1954). At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 253
• A British musical, The Boy Friend, by Sandy Wilson, opened at the Royale on September 30, 1954, and ran for 236 performances. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 254
• Described by Andrews herself as a “piece of lace,” The Boy Friend provided her with a prime opportunity for stardom. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 227

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 The Boy Friend at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.