The run closed March 10, 1951
- Opened
- October 11, 1948
- Closed
- March 10, 1951
- Performances
- 792
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- St. James Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 20th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Where’s Charley? 2 more that season
| 1951 | Broadway Theatre Return-Engagement · George Balanchine | 48 perf. |
| 1974 | Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Theodore Mann | 76 perf. |
Who was in it54 named
Mary Alice Bingham
James Bird
Geraldine Delaney
Alex Dunaeff
Marge Ellis
George Enke
Marie Foster
Dan Gallagher
Bobby Harrell
Bob Held
Jane Judge
Edgar Kent
Ray Kyle
James Lane
John Lynds
Marcia Maier
Betty Oakes
Eleanor Parker
Hazel Patterson
Stowe Phelps
Katharine Reeve
Walter Rinner
Nina Starkey
Susan Stewart
Gloria Sullivan
Ernest Taylor
Bill Weber
Irene Weston
Ken Whelan
Beverlee Bozeman
Joan Chandler
Rose Inghram
Allyn Mclerie
Ruth Mcvayne
William Scully
Toni Stuart
Gordon West
Hazel Willer
16 of these 54 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 38 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
- George Abbott
- Choreographer
- George Balanchine
- Producer
- Cy Feuer & Ernest Martin
- Orchestrations
- Ted Royal
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
October 11, 1948 St. Ffames Theatre 792 performances Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 430
I found myself almost convinced that I was watching the immensely entertaining Morse in a revival of Charley’s Aunt [1892], or even Where’s Charley? [1948]. But it was merely Sugar.
Speaker not recorded. More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 900- Balanchine, George Babes in Arms Boys from Syracuse, The Cabin in the Sky I Married an Angel Louisiana Purchase Merry Widow, The On Your Toes Song of Norway Where’s Charley? Ziegfeld Follies Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 387
- Bolger, Ray Where’s Charley?, 138 Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 353
- Where’s Charley? originally opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre on October 11, 1948, and when it closed on September 9, 1950, it had chalked up 792 performances, enjoyed two hit songs (“Once in Love with Amy” and “My Darling, My Darling”), and won a Tony Award for Ray Bolger as Best Leading Actor in a Musical. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 119
- The London production opened at the Palace Theatre on February 20, 1958, for 404 performances; Norman Wisdom was Charley, and this time around the dances were created by Hanya Holm. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 122
- Loesser had previously offered such examples with “Make a Miracle” from Where’s Charley? (1948). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 391
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 Where’s Charley? at all.
- No show page for Where’s Charley?. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.