The run closed June 12, 1965
- Opened
- February 27, 1964
- Closed
- June 12, 1965
- Performances
- 540
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Adelphi Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 44th 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 it41 named
Diaan Ainslee
Darrell J Askey
Mace Barrett
Jean L Blanchard
Nancy Carnegie
Natalie Costa
Arny Freeman
Barbara Gine
Marco Gomez
Lavinia Hamilton
Judith Hastings
Buck Heller
Nat Horne
Jack Kresy
Bob Maxwell
Edward Mcnally
Bella Shalom
Jamie Simmons
Ralph Stantley
Richard Terry
Maralyn Thoma
Ralph Vucci
Kenny Adams
Paul Anka
Leslie Litomy
Frank Pietri
Dede Thomas
Stuart Unger
13 of these 41 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
- Abe Burrows
- Choreographer
- Matt Mattox
- Producer
- Joseph Cates
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
- What Makes Sammy Run? (2/27/64; 541 performances) was a musicalization of the famous novel by Budd Schulberg. Ervin Drake composed the score and wrote the lyrics which included the popular “A Room Without Windows.” Steve Lawrence, Robert Alda, Sally Ann Howes, and Bernice Massi starred in the show. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 207
- Wholesale has integrity and artistry to spare; what it doesn’t have is hope. It’s a closed room without any chance of light slipping in through the cracks—just like the room without windows in What Makes Sammy Run? Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 166
- What Makes Sammy Run?, which ran until Steve Lawrence ran out of his contract after 540; and—speaking of running Sammy—Mr. Davis’s own Golden Boy, which tipped the scales at 569. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 37
- The character of Larry, it might be observed, has more than a little in common with Lawrence’s earlier Broadway success, Sammy Glick in What Makes Sammy Run? [1964]. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 360
- Ervin Drake, whose theatre experience consisted of the music and lyrics for the not-so-good What Makes Sammy Run? More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 454
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 What Makes Sammy Run? at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.