George Foster
Robert Gilson
Jane Harven
Loren Hightower
Ferdinand Hilt
Gene Holman
Lois Hunt
Susan Johnson
Charlotte Jones
Barbara Karen
Michael King
David Kurlan
Henry Lawrence
Vera Lee
Zoya Leporsky
James MacCracken
Joe Mantell
Rudy Mattise
Joan Morton
Ann Needham
Iona Noble
Greg O Brien
Ann Olchoff
Noella Pelloquin
George Reeder
Darryl Richards
Beatrice Ruth
Ernest Sarracino
Lewis Schaw
Jan Scott
Orville Sherman
Joanne Spiller
Marti Stevens
James Tarbutton
Ted Thurston
Joseph Tocci
Babs Wood
Sandra Zell

Creative team

Director: Lawrence Brooks, George Reeder, Al Checco, Ann Needham, Billy Gilbert, Charlotte Jones, Ernest Sarracino, Ferdinand Hilt, Henry Hamilton, James MacCracken, James Tarbutton, Jane Harven, Joan Morton, Joe Mantell, Leon Daniels, Lionel Ames, Lois Hunt, Marie Gibson, Marti Stevens, Maurice Levine Cast: David Kurlan, Orville Sherman, Rina Falcone, Susan Johnson, Ted Thurston, Vincent Barbi, Walter Black
Choreographer: Eugene Loring
Producer: Gen Genovese and Edward Woods

Around this production

14, '52; 7), the first of our "four worst," was about a village in 1946 Italy seeking to qualify as a town.

Buttrio Square had a terribly troubled history. During rehearsals, a postdated check written to cover the Equity bond bounced, and Equity stepped in and halted rehearsals. Both Boston and Philadelphia tryouts were scratched when a major backer withdrew funding. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 25

Hit the Trail brought to mind hallowed memories of Hairpin Harmony and Buttrio Square, two musicals that were “memorably calamitous” with their “remarkable and historic ineptness.

Richard Watts in the New York Post. The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 434

Hit the Trail brought to mind hallowed memories of Hairpin Harmony and Buttrio Square, two musicals that were “memorably calamitous” with their “remarkable and historic ineptness.

Richard Watts in the New York Post. The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 434

Hit the Trail brought to mind hallowed memories of Hairpin Harmony and Buttrio Square, two musicals that were “memorably calamitous” with their “remarkable and historic ineptness.

Richard Watts in the New York Post. The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 434

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