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Shows · Kelly · Broadhurst Theatre, 1965

Kelly, 1965

Opened February 6, 1965

Closed February 6, 1965

1 performances

Broadhurst Theatre

Original

Broadway

Of the productions that opened in the 1960s, this had the 574th longest run.

Who was in it41 named

Wilfrid Brambell
Hamilton Camp
Paul Charles
Sterling Clark
Georgia Creighton
Anthony de Vecchi
Ceil Delli
Kathleen Doherty
Josip Elic
Lynn Fields
Leslie Franzos
Howard Hartman
Robert L Hultman
Leon Janney
Bettye Jenkins
Carol Joplin
Louis Kosman
Lorene Latine
Donna Monroe
Barbara Monte
James Moore
Michael Nestor
J Vernon Oaks
Hanne Marie Reiner
Thomas Rezarf
Bill Richards
Larry Roquemore
Stanley Simmonds
Ron Stratton
Eleonore Treiber
William Wendt

Creative team

Director
Herbert Ross
Choreographer
Herbert Ross
Orchestrations
Hershy Kay 8

Around this production

The most notorious flop of postwar musicals, it is curiously not one of the all-time worst shows—or at least it wasn't when it opened in Philadelphia in December 1964.

The New York reviews were so bad—and the show was so overbudget—that it never saw the light of another day. One-performance flops have become commonplace, but the actuality of $650,000 thrown away in one night put the undistinguished Kelly in the spotlight. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 532

Kelly (1965), lyrics by Eddie Lawrence;

The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 515

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