The run closed February 10, 1962
- Opened
- November 3, 1960
- Closed
- February 10, 1962
- Performances
- 532
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Winter Garden Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 45th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it90 named
Patricia Kelly
Joe Sirola
Ted Adkins
Bobby Brownell
June Card
Sterling Clark
Michael Davis
Ceil Delli
Vito Durante
Don Emmons
Billy Faier
Pat Finch
Paul Floyd
Norman Fredericks
Barbara Gine
Marian Haraldson
Diana Hunter
Woody Hurst
Barney Johnston
Lynn Gay Lorino
Dale Malone
Susan May
Rae Mclean
Anna Marie Moylan
Barbara Newman
Lynne Osborne
Louis Polacek
Joe Pronto
Nanette Rosen
Mark Ross
Nada Rowand
Wanda Saxon
Bill Starr
Alex Stevens
Terry Violino
Lois la Bonte
Arthur Tookoyan
Barbara Allentuck
Nina Armagh
Dell Brownlee
Mary Ann Bruning
Mary Burr
Carol Carlin
Eileen Casey
Dick Corrigan
J B Davis
Betsy Anne Dickerson
Robert Durand
Robert W Edwards
Ralph Farnworth
Lilly Felcher
Patricia Finch
Gene Foote
Ronn Forella
Betty Hader
Ken Hamilton
Dorothy Hanning
Rod Harmon
Rodd Havman
Sig Jasinski
Danny Joel
Ann Marisse
Ginger Mcfadden
Marie O Kelley
Dick O Neill
Caroline Parks
Wakefield Poole
Esther Quarnstrom
Ken Richards
Anthony Saverino
Eleanor Shaw
Ron Snook
Van Stevens
Kent Thomas
Renata Vaselle
Mimi Vondra
Vernon Wendorf
John Widmer
12 of these 90 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 78 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
- Dore Schary
- Choreographer
- Peter Gennaro
- Producer
- Theatre Guild & Dore Schary
- 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
3 November: The Unsinkable Molly Brown, with score by Willson and starring Tammy Grimes, opens at the Winter Garden Theater and runs for 532 performances. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 26
- The offbeat actress Tammy Grimes proved a sensation in The Unsinkable Molly Brown in i960, playing an actual character from the early 1900s. Act II included a depiction of the sinking of the Titanic. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 66
- and finally Kean, the story of actor Edmund Kean with an underappreciated score. So that leaves us with Fiorello!, The King and I, Annie Get Your Gun, Gypsy, The Sound of Music, Evita, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Wonderful Town (yes, the Sherwood sisters were based on real people), and Funny Girl; Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 113
- Each of his successive shows yielded diminishing returns, with his scores for The Unsinkable Molly Brown (half buoyant, half just barely afloat), Here’s Love (treading water), and 1491 (going down for the third time) on a decided downward trajectory of quality. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 222
- The Guild was responsible for Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s first Broadway success, The Garrick Gaieties; Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s first collaboration, the groundbreaking Oklahoma!; as well as Porgy and Bess, Carousel, Bells Are Ringing, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 276
- Other musical productions include Bells Are Ringing (1956) and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1960). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 386
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 Unsinkable Molly Brown at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.