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Pipe Dream, 1955

Opened November 30, 1955

Closed June 30, 1956

246 performances

Shubert Theatre

Original

Broadway

Pipe Dream, 1955
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Of the productions that opened in the 1950s, this had the 121st longest run.

Who was in it44 named

Jayne Heller
Keith Kaldenberg
Patty Karkalits
Warren Kemmerling
Gene Kevin
Marvin Krauter
Jerry Lazarre
Joseph Leon
Jackie Mcelroy
Nicholas Orloff
Guy Raymond
Marsha Reynolds
Sigyn
Mildred Slavin
Rufus Smith
Hobe Streiford
Temple Texas
Calvin Thomas
Don Weissmuller
Patricia Wilson
Jenny Workman
Nancy Andrews
Don Blackey
Sally Crane
Stokely Gray
Frances Martin

Creative team

Director
Harold Clurman
Choreographer
Boris Runanin
Producer
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II

Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination

Best Musical
Nominated

Recordings

1 recording of Pipe Dream exist, but none was released while this run was on. See Pipe Dream for all of them.

Around this production

Rodgers and Hammerstein supplied the entire $250,000 cost, and Feuer and Martin were promised twenty percent of the ultimately nonexistent profits.

Its short Broadway run was a major disappointment, and within a year of its closing, tragedy struck and its two young leads were dead. The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 523

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