Productions1 on Broadway
| 1958 | Martin Beck Theatre Original. November 5, 1958 · Gian-Carlo Menotti (production supervised by Samuel Chotzinoff) | 5 performances |
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These included Menotti’s The Consul (1950), The Saint of Bleecker Street (1954), and Maria Golovin (1958), Jan Meyerowitz’s The Barrier (1950), Samuel Friedman’s (and, to be sure, Verdi’s) My Darlin’ Aida (1952), Jerome Moross’s The Golden Apple , Harold Rome’s Fanny (1954), Blitzstein’s book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p3
In 1958, David Merrick closed Menotti's Maria Golovin after only five performances allegedly to make way for La Plume de Ma Tante, a revue that subsequently ran on Broadway for over two years. book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p408
Others enjoyed productions, unconventionally, on Broadway (The Medium and The Telephone [a double bill], The Consul, The Saint ef Bleecker Street, Maria Golovin). book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p415
Besides the Mother Abbess, Neway created three other “mother” roles in New York within the two-year period of 1958 and 1959: New York City Opera’s premiere of Mark Bucci’s Tale for a Deaf Ear (1958); the Broadway production of Menotti’s Maria Golovin (1958); and New York City Opera’s world premiere of Hugo Weisgall’s S… book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p36
The first production of Maria Golovin took place on August 20, 1958, at the American Theatre at the U.S. Pavilion at the Brussels Universal and International Exposition in Belgium and was recorded in Italy by RCA Victor (LP # LM-6142), which released a deluxe boxed-set of three LPs and a lavish brochure that included t… book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p735
Earlier in the season, Gian-Carlo Menotti’s opera Maria Golovin had closed on Broadway after just five performances, but five months later the New York City Opera Company courageously brought back the work for a brief engagement. book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p779
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