The run closed January 13, 1973
- Opened
- January 8, 1973
- Closed
- January 13, 1973
- Performances
- 8
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Neil Simon Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 457th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it17 named
Charlotte Crossley
John Handy
June Helmers
Randy Herron
Mitchell Jason
Christopher Murney
Adale O Brien
Jo Ann Ogawa
Shezwae Powell
Lani Sundsten
Suzanne Walker
6 of these 17 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 11 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
- Jon Jory
- Choreographer
- Donald Saddler
- Orchestrations
- Bert De Cocteau
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
The show closed after just 8 performances. A young Walter Bobbie appeared in the cast — he would later direct the Tony-winning revival of Chicago.
We milled around backstage for an hour, then a couple dozen of us went to Sardi’s—my first time there. We were seated on the main floor, in one long group down the center of the main room consisting of ten tables pieced together. Offstage Observations Inside Tales of the Steven Suskin Theodore S Chapin Rowman, p. 175
- Saddler was saddled with more than his share of stinkers (Shangri-La, Sophie, Tricks, Teddy and Alice), and his greatest work was in the revivals of No, No, Nanette and On Your Toes. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 232
- Tricks the Devil Taught Me 140 Theatre World 2011 12 Season V 68 Willis, p. 530
- Levin’s final musical production was the 1973 disaster Tricks, a musical imported from Louisville. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 250
- * The musical Tricks (1973) was an eight-performance flop, but it featured Rene Auberjonois and Christopher Murney, two outstanding comic actors working in the commedia style (right down to the pissing on stage). Musical A Grand Tour the Rise Glory and Fall of An Flinn Denny Martin New York L, p. 53
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 Tricks at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.