Do I Hear A Waltz?, 1965

The run closed September 25, 1965

Opened

March 18, 1965

Closed

September 25, 1965

Performances

220

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Richard Rodgers Theatre

Of the 605 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and carry a performance count, this is the 110th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Do I Hear A Waltz? 1 more that season

1999

Playhouse Theatre Transfer

Who was in it38 named

Jere Admire
Darrell Askey
Syndee Balaber
Bill Berrian
Bob Bishop
Rudy Challenger
Wayne de Rammelaere
Steve Jacobs
Pat Kelly
Liz Lamkin
Michael Lamont
Sandy Leeds
Jack Murray
Joe Nelson
Carl Nicholas
Janice Peta
Candida Pilla
Casper Roos
Bernice Saunders
Walter Stratton
Liza Stuart
Nancy van Rijn
Mary Zahn
Diana Baffa
Frank Dyan

13 of these 38 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 25 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.

Characters10 roles held

Elizabeth Allen Leona Samish
Sergio Franchi Renato de Rossi
Carol Bruce Signora Fiora
Madeleine Sherwood Mrs. McIlhenny
Jack Manning Mr. McIlhenny
Stuart Damon Eddie Yaeger
Julienne Marie Jennifer Yaeger
Fleury D'Antonakis Giovanna
James Dybas Vito
Christopher Votos Mauro

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

John Dexter, John

Choreographer

Herbert Ross, Herbert

Producer

Richard Rodgers

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.

Recordings 3 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Do I Hear A Waltz?, 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

Bundling without Bungling In Philadelphia, Joe Layton replaced Styne as director, taking no credit, and Viveca Lindfors, as the sculptress who attempts to seduce the husband, was replaced by Joan Copeland.

• The Light in the Piazza (although that harks back to the composer’s grandfather — Richard Rodgers’ Do I Hear A Waltz? (page 210)) Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 6
• His next show, collaboration with Hammerstein’s lyricist protégé Stephen Sondheim, produced the disappointing, if underrated, Do I Hear a Waltz? in 1965 (220 performances). Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 260
• Without Robbins, Laurents and Sondheim worked together on two unsuccessful musicals in the next decade before they went on to work with other partners: Anyone Can Whistle (1964), a show without a literary source, and Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), an adaptation of Laurents’s own The Time of the Cuckoo (an unhappy collabora… Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 362
• One year later Sondheim completed his trilogy of collaborations with composer legends begun with Bernstein and Styne when, against his better judgment, he wrote the lyrics for Richard Rodger’s Do I Hear a Waltz? Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 392
• This is why he objected to Rodgers’s desire to reprise “Take the Moment” in Do I Hear a Waltz? simply because the composer wanted the audience to hear the tune again (as was Merman’s rationale for reprising “I Get a Kick Out of You” thirty years earlier).53 Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 420

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What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• Which of the 3 recordings of Do I Hear A Waltz? document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.