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Shows · Destry Rides Again · Imperial Theatre, 1959

Destry Rides Again, 1959

Opened April 23, 1959

Closed June 18, 1960

472 performances

Imperial Theatre

Original

Broadway

Destry Rides Again
Photographer-Friedman-Abeles, New York

Of the productions that opened in the 1950s, this had the 59th longest run.

Who was in it61 named

Jack Beaber
Joan Broderick
Shelly Chaplan
Mel Davidson
Lanier Davis
Lillian D Honau
Ralph Farnworth
Maria Graziano
Maureen Hopkins
Bettye Jenkins
Jillana
Betty Kent
Al Lanti
David London
Ken Malone
Ray Mason
Shelia Mathews
Andrina Miller
May Muth
Shirley Nelson
Oran Osburn
Frank Pietri
John Ray
Adriane Rogers
Larry Roquemore
Reiko Sato
Sharon Shore
Carol Stevens
Merritt Thompson
Nolan van Way
Carol Warner
Joe Blatt
John Conant
Jeff Duncan
Ted Forlow
Evelyn Joyce
Diane Kim
Herb Mazzini
Robert Mcclure
Sally Mortimer
Peter Saul
Anthony Saverino
Jack Sevier

Creative team

Director
Michael Kidd
Choreographer
Michael Kidd
Producer
David Merrick

Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination

Best Musical
Nominated

Recordings

1 recording of Destry Rides Again exist, but none was released while this run was on. See Destry Rides Again for all of them.

Around this production

Robert Coleman in the Daily Mirror said the evening was a “musical whirlwind” and a “rip-roaring rouser” (he reported that in order to establish the evening’s mood, before the show on the sidewalk outside the Imperial Theatre there were a number of cowboys straddled atop prancing horses). The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 791

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