Anyone Can Whistle, 1964

Other stagings of Anyone Can Whistle 2 more

Who was in it41 named

Susan Borree
Sterling Clark
Georgia Creighton
Eugene Edwards
Dick Ensslen
Janet Hayes
Loren Hightower
Bettye Jenkins
Alan Johnson
Patricia Kelly
Jeff Killion
Paula Lloyd
Barbara Monte
Jack Murray
Odette Phillips
William Reilly
Hanne Marie Reiner
Larry Roquemore
Tucker Smith
Donald Stewart
Jeanne Tanzy
Eleonore Treiber
Madeline Kahn as Cora Hoover Hooper
Bernadette Peters as Fay Apple
Scott Bakula as J. Bowden Hapgood
Walter Bobbie as Comptroller Schub
Chip Zien as Treasurer Cooley
Ken Page as Police Chief Magruder
Maureen Moore as Mrs. Schroeder
Nick Wyman as Dr. Detmold
Sterling Clark, Harvey Evans, Evan Pappas, Eric Riley, and Tony Stevens as Cora's Boys

Creative team

Director

Arthur Laurents

Choreographer

Herbert Ross

Orchestrations

Don Walker

Recordings 2 released while this run was on

3 more exist for other runs of this show: see Anyone Can Whistle for all of them.

Around this production

Anyone Can Whistle is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Described as "a satire on conformity and the insanity of the so-called sane," the show tells a story of an economically depressed town whose corrupt mayor decides to create a fake miracle in order to attract tourists. The phony miracle draws the attention of an emotionally inhibited nurse, a crowd of inmates from a local asylum, and a doctor with secrets of his own. Following a tryout period in Philadelphia, Anyone Can Whistle opened at the Majestic Theatre on April 4, 1964, with Angela Lansbury making her stage musical debut. The show received widely varied reviews (including negative n…