Productions1 on Broadway
| 1972 | Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Original. November 19, 1972 · Stone Widney | 9 performances |
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during the thirty years following the short run of Courtin’ Time she appeared in Zenda (1963; closed during its pre-Broadway tryout); The Yearling (1965; 7 performances); I’m Solomon (1968; 7 performances); Dear World (1969; 132 performances); Ambassador (1972; 9 performances); and Copperfield (1981; 13 performances). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p185
before her last flop in 1981, the 13 performances of Copperfield. She came dangerously close to appearing in a hit—but she was replaced as George’s mother in Sunday in the Park with George after the workshop. In reality a talented and versatile character actress, Mathews, along with Morrow, has had perhaps the worst lu… book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p121
[with 5 pans] Ambassador Ari Billy A Broadway Musical Coco Good News Goodtime Charley Her First Roman Here’s Where I Belong I Remember Mama La Strada Mack & Mabel Merrily We Roll Along Molly Music Is Oh, Brother! Rainbow Jones Rex So Long, 174th Street Timbuktu! A Time for Singing The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall Via… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1075
Playing three of Chaplin’s wives was Andrea Marcovicci, who had already appeared in the flop Ambassador on Broadway and in Nefertiti, which, like Chaplin, closed on the road. book:not-since-carrie-forty-years-of-broadway-musical-flops-ken-mandelbaum#p67
Ambassador was actually twice a flop. With Danielle Darrieux an ideal Marie and Howard Keel just right for Lambert, the show was first produced in London, where it cost $265,000 as compared with the $800,000 it would have cost to mount on Broadway. book:not-since-carrie-forty-years-of-broadway-musical-flops-ken-mandelbaum#p210
Lauren Bacall in Applause; Shelley Winters in Minnie’s Boys as the mother of the Marx Brothers; Lauren Bacall in Applause; Danny Kaye making his return to Broadway in Two by Two; Howard Keel and Danielle Darrieux in Ambassador (all nineteen performances) and Melina Mercouri in the even shorter-lived musical version of… book:the-best-musicals-from-show-boat-to-a-chorus-line-by-arthur-jackson-foreword-by-#p130
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