Productions1 on Broadway
| 1958 | Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Original. October 11, 1958 · Walter Kerr | 161 performances |
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Licensing 1 entry
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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In the literature19 passages
Goldilocks (1958; 161 performances) and Mack and Mabel (1974; 65 performances). Even Off-Off-Broadway’s Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi (1993), Dominic Argento’s opera The Dream of Valentino (1993), and Off-Broadway’s The IT Girl (2001; inspired by Clara Bow’s silent film It ) seem to have disappeared after their ini… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p513
One feels the musical needed more tweaking (and perhaps just one more stop on the tryout road for additional rewriting) in order to better clarify the relationship of Max and Maggie, and to satisfyingly resolve the storylines involving George and Lois. And that title needed to go. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p724
Early flyers advertised Ben Gazzara as the male lead, but he dropped out in preproduction; as the show neared its tryout, Barry Sullivan was brought in, but he too decamped; and so Don Ameche assumed the role about midway through the tryout. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p726
Songs cut during the tryout were: “Guess Who,” “Little Girls,” “Hurricane Dance,” “Come to Me,” and “My Last Spring.” Shortly after the Broadway opening, the title of “Huckleberry Island Ballet” was changed to “Pirate Orgy.” book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p726
As the Girls Go, Seventh Heaven, Goldilocks, On a Clear Day, Zorba, The Act, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, and Kiss of the Spider Woman—each of which saw fit to raise the prevailing price plateau—all floundered and flopped. That’s show biz. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p35
When Jean Kerr’s comedies King of Hearts (1954) and Mary, Mary (1961) premiered on Broadway, Walter Kerr stepped aside and let other critics review them (and when the Kerrs cowrote the 1958 Broadway musical Goldilocks, he understandably didn’t review it). book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p362
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