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Shows · Let It Ride · Eugene O'Neill Theatre, 1961

Let It Ride, 1961

Opened October 12, 1961

Closed December 9, 1961

68 performances

Eugene O'Neill Theatre

Original

Broadway

Of the productions that opened in the 1960s, this had the 241st longest run.

Who was in it37 named

Ted Adkins
Marty Allen
Helen Baisley
Rhett Dennis
Bob Evans
Harold Gary
Dick Gingrich
Carol Glade
Ann Johnson
Sally Kirk
Sally Lee
Jack Leigh
Albert Linville
Vernon Lusby
Barbara Marcon
Rae Mclean
Virginia Perlowin
Michael Roberts
Stanley Simmonds
Pat Turner
Sandy Walsh
Marc West
Maggie Worth

Creative team

Director
Stanley Prager
Choreographer
Onna White

Recordings 1 released while this run was on

1961
Let It Ride! (1961 original Broadway cast)
Let It Ride! (1961 original Broadway cast) RCA Victor LSO-1064, released 1961
United States

1 more exist for other runs of this show: see Let It Ride for all of them.

Around this production

Let It Ride is a Broadway musical based on the 1935 Broadway farce Three Men on a Horse by George Abbott and John Cecil Holm. The musical, with book by Abram S. Ginnes and music and lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, choreographer Onna White, assistant choreographer Eugene Louis Faccuito (Luigi), opened on Broadway in New York City at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on October 12, 1961, and played 69 performances including one preview. The original Broadway production co-starred George Gobel and Sam Levene and featured Barbara Nichols and Paula Stewart. Erwin Trowbridge, a mild-mannered man working for a greeting card company, has an unusual talent: he can pick the winners of horse races wit…

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