The run closed March 14, 1964
- Opened
- December 8, 1963
- Closed
- March 14, 1964
- Performances
- 112
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadway Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 175th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it45 named
Irene Browne
Murray Adler
Ivan Allan
Jeremy Brown
Kellie Brytt
Julie Drake
John Felton
Sheila Forbes
Chris Gampel
Carol Glade
Jose Gutierrez
Dell Hanley
Marian Haraldson
Barney Johnston
Elaine Labour
Jami Landi
Sandy Leeds
Nancy Lynch
Art Matthews
Donna Monroe
Carmen Morales
Ilona Murai
Carey Nairnes
Peter Pagan
Bruce Peyton
Jack Rains
Scott Ray
Paul Reid Roman
Sean Scully
Mari Shelton
Ruth Shepard
Dan Siretta
Mitchell Taylor
Mike Toles
Maggie Worth
Mary Zahn
9 of these 45 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 36 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
- Joe Layton
- 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
Herman Levin made The Girl Who Came to Supper his first musical production since My Fair Lady.
Florence Henderson, long before she became the television mother of three daughters and stepmom to three sons, made the audience want to see The Coconut Girl in its entirety. The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 150
- In 1963, The Sleeping Prince was adapted into the Broadway musical The Girl Who Came to Supper with lyrics and music by Noel Coward. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 889
- His final book show as composer, The Girl Who Came to Supper, was an even bigger disappointment, despite a wonderful performance by Florence Henderson. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 56
- Had her next Broadway vehicle, The Girl Who Came to Supper, been a hit, perhaps we would have never lost her to an extended stay in La-La Land. Co-starring Jose Ferrer, an actor at the bottom of everyone’s list to play a handsome, dashing prince in a musical, its failure wasn’t remotely her fault, for Henderson mined e… Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 103
- After his stylish, groundbreaking work on No Strings, he directed the misguided The Girl Who Came to Supper and Sherry, and his sharp, nonstop staging of George M! was followed by the relative tedium of Dear World and Two By Two. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 305
- Noted for his wit and flamboyance, Coward was a playwright, director, actor, and singer, in addition to composer, such as for Sail Away (1961) and The Girl Who Came to Supper (1963) during the Golden Age. Tony nominations: Best Direction (Musical), High Spirits, 1964; Best Author (Musical), The Girl Who Came to Supper,… The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre 1943 1965 Naden Corinne J Rowman Litt, p. 185
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 Girl Who Came to Supper at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.