The run closed April 15, 1961
- Opened
- December 19, 1957
- Closed
- April 15, 1961
- Performances
- 1,375
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Majestic Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 3rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Music Man 3 more that season
| 1980 | City Center Revival · Michael Kidd | 21 perf. |
| 2000 | Neil Simon Theatre Revival · Susan Stroman | 699 perf. |
| 2022 | Winter Garden Theatre Revival · Jerry Zaks | 376 perf. |
Who was in it104 named
Pamela Abbott
Elisabeth Buda
Danny Carroll
Ronn Cummins
Nancy Davis
Babs Delmore
Robert Evans
Martha Flynn
James Gannon
Russell Goodwin
Penny Ann Green
Janet Hayes
Robert Howard
Peter Leeds
Robert Lenn
Vernon Lusby
Lynda Lynch
Jacqueline Maria
Bob Mariano
Pat Mariano
Gary Menteer
Peggy Mondo
Carl Nicholas
Hal Norman
Marilyn Poudrier
Paul Reed
Vern Reed
Adnia Rice
Marie Santella
John Sharpe
Al Shea
Marilyn Siegel
Bill Spangenberg
Elaine Swann
Gerald Teijelo
Barbara Travis
Wayne Ward
Babs Warden
Marlys Watters
Vernon Wendorf
Barbara Williams
Roy Wilson
Dusty Worrall
Bert Parks
Leora Thatcher
Fred Albee
Barbara Beck
Pixie Bowman
Carolyn Clark
Joan Coddington
Nancy Dale
Bernard Eastoe
Paul Floyd
Arlyne Frank
Robert Gorman
Linda Rae Hager
Patrick Heim
Richard Hermany
Patti Lee Hilka
Curtis Hood
Leslye Hunter
Marion Hunter
Peter J Laird
Loi Leabo
Jack Leigh
Gubi Mann
Jack Mccann
Thomas Norden
Paul O Keefe
Eric Paynter
Alan Peterson
Nana Prudente
Nancy Radcliffe
Nadine Revene
Glenn Richards
Michael Roberts
Shev Rodgers
Alice Shanahan
Ronald Tourso
George Tregre
Eleonore Treiber
Frances Underhill
Kip Watson
Lynn Wendell
Carolee Winchester
Laurie Wright
Carolee Wynne
17 of these 104 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 87 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
- Morton DaCosta
- Choreographer
- Onna White
- Producer
- Kermit Bloomgarden
- Orchestrations
- Don Walker
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 5 from 8 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
Willson rewrote the show over 30 times across eight years. "Ya Got Trouble" uses no actual melody, and Robert Preston had to deliver it at breakneck speed every single night.
- During the 1958-1959 season, it was possible to see such major attractions as The Music Man for $2.50 and My Fair Lady for $2.30. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 13
- The role of Professor Harold Hill was rejected by a number of actors, including Danny Kaye, Dan Dailey, Phil Harris, and Gene Kelly, before it went to Robert Preston who gave a memorably dynamic performance in his first appearance on the musical stage. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 201
- waiting just around the corner were The Music Man, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Hello, Dolly! (with Tony Awards for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for the first two) Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 498
- In the 1954 production, Barbara Cook had played the secondary female role of Carrie Pipperidge; in the intervening years she had created two roles on Broadway (Hilda in Plain and Fancy and Cunegonde in Candide ), and so this time around she was Julie Jordan, the musical’s leading lady (and three months later she create… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 650
- The musical played for 1,375 performances and was the third-longest-running of the decade’s musicals. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 670
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 Music Man at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.