Productions1 on Broadway
| 1964 | 54th Street Theatre Original. February 27, 1964 · Abe Burrows | 540 performances |
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Licensing 1 entry
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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In the literature21 passages
What Makes Sammy Run? (2/27/64; 541 performances) was a musicalization of the famous novel by Budd Schulberg. Ervin Drake composed the score and wrote the lyrics which included the popular “A Room Without Windows.” Steve Lawrence, Robert Alda, Sally Ann Howes, and Bernice Massi starred in the show. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p207
Wholesale has integrity and artistry to spare; what it doesn’t have is hope. It’s a closed room without any chance of light slipping in through the cracks—just like the room without windows in What Makes Sammy Run? book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p166
What Makes Sammy Run?, which ran until Steve Lawrence ran out of his contract after 540; and—speaking of running Sammy—Mr. Davis’s own Golden Boy, which tipped the scales at 569. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p37
The character of Larry, it might be observed, has more than a little in common with Lawrence’s earlier Broadway success, Sammy Glick in What Makes Sammy Run? [1964]. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p360
Ervin Drake, whose theatre experience consisted of the music and lyrics for the not-so-good What Makes Sammy Run? book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p454
What Makes Sammy Run?, 15, 319, 320, 338, 340-42, 430, 432 book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1161
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