The run closed August 7, 1954
- Opened
- March 11, 1954
- Closed
- August 7, 1954
- Performances
- 173
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Phoenix Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 155th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.
Who was in it46 named
Martha Larrimore
Helen Ahola
Santo Anselmo
Peter de Mayo
Crandall Diehl
Robert Flavelle
Bob Gay
Murray Gitlin
Gary Gordon
Ed Grace
Dee Harless
Janet Hayes
Martin Keane
Lois Mccauley
Barton Mumaw
Bill Nuss
Julian Patrick
Charles Post
Don Redlich
Joli Roberts
Marten Sameth
Arthur Schoep
Frank Seabolt
Jere Stevens
Tao Strong
Richard Hermany
Annaliese Widman
Mitzi Wilson
18 of these 46 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 28 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
- Norman Lloyd
- Choreographer
- Hanya Holm
- Producer
- T. Edward Hambleton & Norris Houghton
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
It was coauthored by John Latouche, who, one year earlier, had written the libretto for one of the decade's best musicals, The Golden Apple.
- Bolin, Shannon Golden Apple, The, 160 Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 353
- These included Menotti’s The Consul (1950), The Saint of Bleecker Street (1954), and Maria Golovin (1958), Jan Meyerowitz’s The Barrier (1950), Samuel Friedman’s (and, to be sure, Verdi’s) My Darlin’ Aida (1952), Jerome Moross’s The Golden Apple Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 3
- for this hot-air balloon survey we must regretfully include one of the most glorious musicals in the history of our theatre: for The Golden Apple (which depicted the story of The Iliad and The Odyssey as told from the perspective of turn-of-the-century America) saw Paris and Helen take flight on a hot-air balloon and t… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 377
- The work was selected as the season’s Best Musical by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle, the first Off-Broadway musical so honored. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 380
- For the Broadway production, Shannon Bolin succeeded Geraldine Viti in the roles of Mrs. Juniper and Calypso (but Viti remained as standby for Bolin, Kaye Ballard, and Bibi Osterwald); Martha Larrimore succeeded Nola Day in the roles of Mother Hare and Circe; and Martin Kean succeeded Larry Celsi as Patroclus. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 382
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 Golden Apple at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.