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Shows · Minnie’s Boys · Imperial Theatre, 1970

Minnie’s Boys, 1970

Opened March 26, 1970

Closed May 30, 1970

80 performances

Imperial Theatre

Original

Broadway

Of the productions that opened in the 1970s, this had the 195th longest run.

Who was in it33 named

Jacqueline Britt as Mrs. Krupnik
Bjarne Buchtrup
George Bunt
Deede Darnell
Joan B Duffin
Marjory Edson
Lynne Gannaway
Ronn Hansen
Julie Kurnitz as Mrs. McNish
Elaine Manzel
Barbara Monte Britton
Gary Raucher as Milton "Gummo" Marx
Stephen Reinhardt
Casper Roos
Gene Ross
Carole Schweid
William W Sean
Evelyn Taylor
Toodie Wittmer
Emily Shoolin as Miss Murdock

Creative team

Director
Stanley Prager
Choreographer
Marc Breaux

Around this production

Minnie's Boys is a musical with a book by Arthur Marx (Groucho Marx's son) and Robert Fisher, music by Larry Grossman, and lyrics by Hal Hackady. It provides a behind-the-scenes look at the early days of the Marx Brothers and their relationship with their mother Minnie Marx, the driving force behind their ultimate success.

Minnie’s Boys (March 26, 1970) More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1093

What? No Lewis J. Stadlen for his funny yet poignant and believable young Groucho Marx in Minnie’s Boys ?

B007l4owcu Ebok Peter Filichia, p. 94

played the Marx Brothers’ mother in the 1970 flop Minnie’s Boys . “I still don’t know what the hell happened.”

Broadway Babylon Boze Hadleigh, p. 298

“she had to do it to bolster her confidence.”—actress JULIE KURNITZ of Minnie’s Boys (1970), starring Shelley Winters as the Marx Brothers’ mother

Broadway Babylon Boze Hadleigh, p. 382

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