Sail Away!, 1961

The run closed February 24, 1962

Opened

October 3, 1961

Closed

February 24, 1962

Performances

167

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Broadhurst Theatre

Of the 605 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and carry a performance count, this is the 135th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it44 named

Jere Admire
Bobby Allen
Don Atkinson
Paula Bauersmith
Gary Crabbe
C Stafford Dickens
David Evans
Pat Ferrier
Dorothy Frank
Anne Fraser
James Frasher
Patricia Harty
Alan Helms
Curtis Hood
Wish Mary Hunt
Cheryl Kilgren
Bridget Knapp
Henry Lawrence
Nancy Lynch
Patti Mariano
Margaret Mower
Mary Ellen O Keefe
Paul O Keefe
Alan Peterson
Keith Prentice
James Pritchett
Jon Richards
Evelyn Russell
Dennis Scott
Alice Shanahan
Dan Siretta
Gloria Stevens
Richard Woods

11 of these 44 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 33 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Noël Coward

Choreographer

Joe Layton

Orchestrations

Irwin Ko

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Recordings 2 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Sail Away!, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

"The whole thing is quite obviously headed for enormous success," wrote Noel Coward in his diary during rehearsals for Sail Away (Broadhurst; Oct.

• Expert comedienne Elaine Stritch had the lead in Noel Coward’s last musical comedy, Sail Away!, an underwhelming pastiche, for 167 performances in 1961. Broadway Bound A Guide To Shows That Died Aborning, p. 489

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• Which of the 2 recordings of Sail Away! document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.