The Consul, 1950

The run closed November 4, 1950

Opened

March 15, 1950

Closed

November 4, 1950

Performances

269

Previews

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Theatre

Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 112th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Consul 1 more that season

Who was in it18 named

Maria Andreassi
Donald Blackey
George Jongeyans
Maria Marlo
Andrew Mckinley
Mabel Mercer
Francis Monachino
Lydia Summers
Chester Watson
Georgeanna Bourdon
Randolph Symonette

7 of these 18 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 11 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.

Characters14 roles recorded

Patricia Neway Magda Sorel
Gloria Lane Secretary of the consulate
Marie Powers Mother, mother to John Sorel
Cornell MacNeil John Sorel, husband to Magda
Leon Lishner Secret Police Agent
Andrew McKinley Nika Magadoff, magician
George Jongejans Mr. Kofner
Maria Marlo Foreign Woman
Maria Andreassi Anna Gomez
Lydia Summers Vera Boromel
Francis Monachino Assan
Chester Watson First Plainclothesman
Donald Blackey Second Planeclothesman
Mabel Mercer The Voice on the Record

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

Gian Carlo Menotti

Choreographer

John Butler, John

Producer

Chandler Cowles and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Orchestrations

by Gian Carlo Menotti

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

• Most shows were lighhearted in nature, and it’s notable the critics often used such words as carnival, jubilee, fandango, hoedown, haymaker, and festival to describe not just a particular song or dance sequence but also to characterize their take-away, overall impressions of the musicals they reviewed. But if fun was t… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 2
• Pulitzer Prize (1950): Best Music (The Consul ) Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 37
• Engel’s list of fifteen Broadway “models of excellence” includes The Consul. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 43
• The Consul is listed as an example of Broadway opera, described as an all-sung drama in the European operatic tradition. Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 405
• The Consul (1950) was Menotti's first full-length opera and possibly his finest work. Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 415

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