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| 1961 | St. James Original. December 27, 1961 · Michael Kidd | 205 performances |
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Despite a better-than-average score, which featured “Comes Once in a Lifetime,” the show played only 205 performances. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p133
Michael Kidd, Mark Breaux, and Jule Styne during rehearsals for Subways Are For Sleeping, 1961. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p537
Subways Are for Sleeping (12/27/61; 205 performances) was the threesome’s next offering. Sydney Chaplin, Carol Lawrence, Orson Bean, and Phyllis Newman starred. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p539
His next role, as Nick Arnstein in a third Styne musical, Funny Girl, became his swan song to the musical stage. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p38
In Subways Are for Sleeping, Orson Bean is enthralled by a towel-clad (and Tony-winning) Phyllis Newman as Miss America-loser “Martha Vail, in a musical dramatic playlet written and directed by herself” book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p169
Subways Are for Sleeping, 32. 83, 1603 book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p341
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