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Shows · House of Flowers · Alvin Theatre, 1954

House of Flowers, 1954

Opened December 30, 1954

Closed May 21, 1955

165 performances

Neil Simon Theatre

Original

Broadway

Of the productions that opened in the 1950s, this had the 159th longest run.

Who was in it36 named

Leu Comacho
Joseph Comadore
Hubert Dilworth
Solomon Earl Green
Dolores Harper
Winston George Henriques
Cristyne Lawson
Don Mckayle
Mary Mon Toy
Ada Moore
Enid Mosier
Albert Popwell
Don Redman
Pearl Reynolds
Sabu
Margot Small
Herbert Stubbs
Glory van Scott
Jacques Aubuchon
Audrey Mason

Creative team

Director
Peter Brook
Choreographer
Herbert Ross
Producer
Saint Subber
Orchestrations
Ted Royal 6

Recordings 1 released while this run was on

1955
House of Flowers (1954 original Broadway cast)
House of Flowers (1954 original Broadway cast) Columbia ML 4969, released 1955
United States

4 more exist for other runs of this show: see House of Flowers for all of them.

Around this production

Choreographer George Balanchine was fired, and Herbert Ross was called in; by the end of the tryout, Ross had also replaced Brook—with whom Bailey had clashed violently—as director, although Brook retained program credit.

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