The run closed August 9, 1969
- Opened
- November 17, 1968
- Closed
- August 9, 1969
- Performances
- 305
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 80th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Zorba 1 more that season
| 1983 | Broadway Theatre Revival · Michael Cacoyannis | 344 perf. |
Who was in it42 named
Joseph Alfasa
Robert Bernard
Wayne Boyd
Connie Burnett
Peggy Cooper
Gerrit de Beer
Al de Sio
Richard Dmitri
Nina Dova
Juliette Durand
Louis Garcia
Lewis Gundunas
Lee Hooper
Nat Horne
Charles Kalan
Johnny Lamotta
Anthony Marciona
Suzan Marciona
Alicia Helen Markarian
Martin Meyers
Paul Michael
Richard Nieves
Edward Nolfi
Jemela Omar
Alex Petrides
Gerard Russak
Loukas Skipitaris
Marsha Tamaroff
Miriam Welch
David Wilder
Leib Lensky
Lloyd Wells
10 of these 42 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 32 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 Cacoyannis
- Choreographer
- Graciela Daniele
- Producer
- Barry & Fran Weissler, Kenneth Greenblatt & John Pomerantz
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
ZORBA November 17, 1968 Imperial Theatre 305 performances Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 534
The team would do three more shows (Cabaret, Zorba, and Kiss of the Spider Woman ) with Prince.
Speaker not recorded. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 141- Kander and Ebb, who wrote the memorable score for Cabaret, also wrote the score for the next Imperial tenant, Zorba (1968), a musical based on the film Zorba the Greek. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 182
- A new production of the musical Zorba, starring Anthony Quinn. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 211
- Even his so-called failures, such as Follies, Sweeney Todd, and Zorba, have become legendary shows and have expanded the world of musical theater. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 446
- Despite the national tour of Zorba and a brief return to Broadway in the songbook revue A Musical Jubilee, Raitt spent most of the next thirty-five years recording and concertizing. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 63
- TOP: Carmen Alvarez (here with Al De Sio and John Cunningham) had previously only played heavy dance roles. As the doomed widow in Zorba, she proved herself as a fine dramatic actress. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 336
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 Zorba at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.