Do Re Mi, 1960

The run closed January 13, 1962

Opened

December 26, 1960

Closed

January 13, 1962

Performances

400

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

St. James Theatre

Of the 605 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and carry a performance count, this is the 61st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it56 named

Marilynn Allwyn
Doria Avila
Diane Ball
Marilyn Child
Frank Derbas
David Gold
Edward Grace
Regina Groves
Stuart Hodes
Curtis Hood
Daniel Jasinski
Marc Jordan
Betty Kent
Ray Kirchner
Josephine Lang
Albert Linville
Ken Malone
Jim Marley
James Moore
Al Nesor
Dawn Nickerson
Ed Pfeiffer
Donna Sanders
Suzanne Shaw
Carol Stevens
Allan Stevenson
Liza Stuart
Dean Taliaferro
Pat Tolson
Nancy van Rijn
Richard Young
Leni Anders
Gail Johnston
Alan Kirk
Jack Mette
Don Morgan
Shirley Nelson
Wendy Nickerson
Bill Richards
Seth Riggs
Roy Smith
Wally Strauss

14 of these 56 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 42 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.

Characters11 roles held

Phil Silvers Hubert Cram
Nancy Walker Kay Cram
John Reardon John Henry Wheeler
Nancy Dussault Tilda Mullen
George Mathews Fatso O'Rear
George Givot Skin Demopoulos
David Burns Brains Berman
Al Lewis Moe Shtarker
Carolyn Ragaini Marsha Denkler
Steve Roland Irving Feinberg
Betty Kent Gretchen Mulhausen

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

Garson Kanin

Choreographer

Marc Breaux, DeeDee Wood

Producer

David Merrick

Orchestrations

Luther Henderson

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 Awards 0 from 1 nomination

Best Musical

Nominated

Recordings 4 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Do Re Mi, 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

• Do Re Mi (Phil Silvers), Let It Ride! (George Gobel), Little Me (Sid Caesar), and 110 in the Shade (Robert Horton). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 829
• Next came a more pleasing reconstruction of the 1960 musical Do Re Mi by Garson Kanin, Comden and Green, and Jule Styne. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 321
• Do Re Mi (1/26/ 60; 400 performances) was a musical with Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 133
• Do Re Mi (12/26/60; 400 performances). Styne again fashioned a score for Phil Silvers. His co-star in this was Nancy Walker with John Readon, David Burns, and Nancy Dussault rounding out the leads. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 538
• Some shows like Fanny and Do Re Mi enjoyed extended exposure on the show, over 40 minutes total. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 542

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• Which of the 4 recordings of Do Re Mi document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.