The run closed January 1, 1972
- Opened
- October 19, 1970
- Closed
- January 1, 1972
- Performances
- 507
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 53rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it61 named
Robby Benson
Steven Boockvor
Kenneth Bridges
Henry Brunjes
Peggy Cooper
Nina Dova
Lee Franklin
David Garfield
Allan Gruet
Penny Guerard
Roger Hamilton
Ann Hodges
Howard Honig
Del Lewis
Leo Leyden
Michael Maitland
Kim Michels
Carl Nicholas
Jonathan Peck
Ted Pejovich
Denise Pence
Jean Richards
Elliott Savage
Wilfred Schuman
Mitchell Spera
Lani Sundsten
Paul Tracey
Thomas Trelfa
Chuck Beard
Sidney Ben Zali
Diane Blair
Richard Dodd
Alice Evans
Brian Hall
Jason Howard
Francesca James
Dallas Johann
Ray Lamanna
Genette Lane
Caroline Mcwilliams
Howard Ross
David Rounds
Guy Sorel
Deborah St Darr
Bill Stanton
Paris Themmen
Sean J Walsh
Randi Zinn
13 of these 61 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 48 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
- Michael Kidd
- Choreographer
- Michael Kidd
- Producer
- Lester Osterman & Hillard Elkins
- 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 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
- The team’s songs for The Body Beautiful were tuneful and lively, and the next year they wrote the score for the long-running Pulitzer Prize-winning Fiorello! , and during the next eleven years were represented on Broadway five times with Tenderloin (1960), She Loves Me (1963), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), The Apple Tree… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 675
- The show and especially the score were not light enough for most audiences. However, though unappreciated at the time, the show (or at least the score) is now considered an artistic success. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 95
- Bock effectively synthesizes the mainstream Broadway idiom with particular time-, place-, and eth- nic-specific references, as is evident in the New York of Fiorello!, the Russian-Jewish village of Anatevka in Fiddler on the Roof, or 18th-century Frankfurt and London in The Rothschilds. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 76
- The so-called Jewish musical (and the Jewish theatre party business) sustained a mortal, though not fatal, blow in 1970-1971, with The Rothschilds, Two by Two, and Ari in quick succession. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 95
- 'Things went as expected, which is to say they opened in Boston and fired the director and new choreographer. Benthall was replaced by bright-haired-boy Derek Goldby, who had just wowed ’em with the 1968 Tom Stoppard import Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He had never done a musical, either. Goldby was just then… More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 455
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 Rothschilds at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.