The run closed April 13, 1946
- Opened
- November 22, 1945
- Closed
- April 13, 1946
- Performances
- 165
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Nederlander Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 162nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it46 named
Bette Anderson
Richard Astor
Lucille Benson
Paul Best
Bruce Cartwright
Ronald Chetwood
Janice Cioffi
Charles Danford
Nina Dean
Shirley Dean
Lois Eastman
Robert Field
Lucille Floetman
Bert Freed
Mattlyn Gevurtz
Ralph Glover
Arlouine Goodjohn
Tom Helmore
Erik Kristen
Hugh Laing
Hermann Leopoldi
Karol Loraine
Robert Lussier
Dwight Marfield
Paul Mario
Patricia Marshall
Tommy Matthews
Don Mayo
Keny Mccord
Jack Miller
Isabel Mirrow
June Morris
Mary Ellen Moylan
Betty Jean Smythe
Eva Soltesz
Alfred Sukey
Ernest Taylor
Eleanor Treiber
Bernard Tunisse
Sonja Tyven
Jeffrey Warren
Frank Westbrook
4 of these 46 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 42 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
- Edward Padula, John C. Wilson, John
- Choreographer
- Antony Tudor
- Orchestrations
- Harold Byrns
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
The Day Before Spring is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.
and in Lerner and Loewe’s The Day Before Spring he sang “God’s Green World” and “You Haven’t Changed at All.”
Speaker not recorded. The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 523in Lerner and Loewe’s The Day Before Spring he sang “God’s Green World” and “You Haven’t Changed at All.”
Speaker not recorded. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 520- The team persevered and created Brigadoon after a modest effort, The Day Before Spring, which closed out of town. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 46
- Spring was not a success, but a $250,000 film sale to MGM Studios stabi- lized the team. Musical A Grand Tour the Rise Glory and Fall of An Flinn Denny Martin New York L, p. 360
- On their way to Brigadoon’s lucky opening night in 1947 at the Ziegfeld Theatre, Lerner and Loewe had already written two shows together, neither of which clicked: What’s Up, a 1943 wartime musical directed by George Balanchine, and the promising The Day Before Spring, a 1948 venture that did not survive split notices. Broadway Musicals A Hundred Year History Lewis David H 2002 2012 Mcfarland Compa, p. 93
- With composer Frederick Lowe he formed one of the legendary partnerships of the American musical theatre, beginning with their collaboration on The Day Before Spring. Theatre World 1986 87 Season V 43 Willis John, p. 233
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 Day Before Spring at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.