Darling of the Day, 1968

The run closed February 24, 1968

Opened

January 27, 1968

Closed

February 24, 1968

Performances

31

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Adelphi Theatre

Of the 605 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and carry a performance count, this is the 336th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it37 named

John Aman
Bonnie Ano
Camila Ashland
Larry Brucker
Paul Eichel
Charles Gerald
Marian Haraldson
Reby Howells
Mitchell Jason
Marc Jordan
Reid Klein
George Lee
Leo Leyden
Jim May
Ross Miles
Carl Nicholas
Kay Oslin
Jeannette Seibert
Fred Siretta
Georgianne Thon
Phyllis Wallach
Charles Welch
Herb Wilson
Denise Winston
Maggie Worth
Albert Zimmerman
Mariliyn Sofia

10 of these 37 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 27 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Characters13 roles held

Vincent Price Priam Farll
Patricia Routledge Alice Challice
Brenda Forbes Lady Vale
Peter Woodthorpe Oxford
Teddy Green Alf
Michael Lewis Pennington
Joy Nichols Daphne
Mitchell Jason Duncan
Charles Welch Henry Leek
Leo Leyden Doctor / Judge
Beth Howland Rosalind
Marc Jordan Bert
Camila Ashland Mrs. Leek

These came out of a wiki table. The names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.

Creative team

Director

Steven Vinaver

Choreographer

Lee Theodore

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Tony Awardscategories not held

0 wins from 3 nominations. We don't know which categories.

Recordings 3 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Darling of the Day, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

Darling of the Day is a musical with a book by Nunnally Johnson, lyrics by E. Y. Harburg, and music by Jule Styne. Based on the Arnold Bennett novel Buried Alive and his play The Great Adventure, the original 1968 Broadway production starred Vincent Price and Patricia Routledge, who won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.

Darling of the Day January 27, 1968 More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1108

• Darling of the Day (1/27/68; 32 performances) was a failure by the usually reliable JULE Styne and E. Y. Harsurc, although the score is much admired. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 207
• Harburg’s last Broadway show, Darling of the Day (1/27/68; 32 performances), was written with Jule Styne. The show starred Vincent Price and Patricia Routledge. Although the show was a failure, Harburg considered it his My Fair Lady. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 242
• Darling of the Day (1/27/68; 32 performances) was another show with a fine Styne score that achieved little success. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 539
• In addition to the delightful simplicity of his lyrics for the movie The Wizard of Oz, he contributed the unmistakably Harburgian words to the songs of Bloomer Girl, Finian’s Rainbow, Jamaica, and the underrated, cult shows Flahooley, The Happiest Girl in the World, and Darling of the Day. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 41
• The Guild was responsible for Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s first Broadway success, The Garrick Gaieties; Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s first collaboration, the groundbreaking Oklahoma!; as well as Porgy and Bess, Carousel, Bells Are Ringing, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Among the Guild’s other musical… Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 276

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What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• Which of the 3 recordings of Darling of the Day document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.