Productions1 on Broadway
| 1960 | Alvin Theatre Original. March 8, 1960 · George Roy Hill | 95 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Greenwillow matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
Read from the licensor's own pages and catalogues. Rights move, and an empty row means we have not confirmed a publisher, not that the show cannot be licensed.
In the literature19 passages
Though tarrying on Broadway only three months, Greenwillow has long been admired for the airy, otherworldly charms of Frank Loesser’s atypical score. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p182
His only flop to reach Broadway, Greenwillow. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p150
Four years later Loesser himself was crying over the failure (ninety-seven performances) of the bucolic Greenwillow (1960). The show contained an excellent score, the best efforts of Tony Perkins in the leading role, and a positive review by Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times. Despite all this, Donald Malcolm would… book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p308
Although originally announced as the lead, Tony Perkins—who starred in Frank Loesser’s 1960 Greenwillow and the 1966 Sondheim/James Goldman TV minimusical Evening Primrose—opted out. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p217
Loesser’s Greenwillow, Weill and Ira Gershwin’s The Firebrand of Florence, Dietz and Schwartz’s Jennie, and Berlin’s Mr. President—from top talents. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1075
GREENWILLOW was a pastoral, folksy, tender musical that played whimsical and dull in performance. Loesser’s work, while enchanting, had no life outside the theatre (and very little in it). GREENWILLOW’s failure was a major disappointment to Loesser. book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p435
Passages naming this show, found by keyword across 178 books. Where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.