Sweet Charity, 1966

The run closed July 15, 1967

Opened

January 29, 1966

Closed

July 15, 1967

Performances

608

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Palace Theatre

Of the 605 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and carry a performance count, this is the 37th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Sweet Charity 3 more that season

1942	Mansfield Theatre Original · George Abbott	8 perf.
1986	Revival Revival	369 perf.
2005	Al Hirschfeld Theatre Revival · Walter Bobbie	279 perf.

Who was in it44 named

Elaine Cancilla
Suzanne Charny
Michael Davis
Betsy Dickerson
Kathryn Doby
Alice Evans
Gene Foote
Eddie Gasper
David Gold
Patrick Heim
I W Klein
Carmen Morales
Harold Pierson
Sharon Ritchie
Charlene Ryan
John Sharpe
Christine Stewart
John Stratton
Bud Vest
John Wheeler
Frank Desal
Ronn Forella
Bick Goss
Mickey Gunnersen
Curtis Hood
Carolyn Kirsch
Peter Lombard
Lynn Gay Lorino
Dennis Nahat
Louise Quick
Ilona Simon
Marie Wallace

12 of these 44 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 32 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

Bob Fosse

Choreographer

Bob Fosse

Producer

Robert Fryer, Lawrence Carr, Sylvia & Joseph Harris

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.

Tony Awards 0 from 2 nominations

Best Musical

Nominated

Recordings 10 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Sweet Charity, 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

ABOVE: She's a Brass Band: McKechnie made a wonderful Sweet Charity in the national tour of the 1986 revival; it was on its opening night in Washington, D.C., that Bob Fosse collapsed and died on the street outside the National Theatre. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 72

• The musical was also the first legitimate show to play the Palace, the legendary vaudeville mecca on Broadway at 47th Street. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 208
• After a 7-year break, Dorothy resumed her career without her brother, in a show that was another vehicle for Gwen Verdon, Sweet Charity (1/29/66; 608 performances). Cy Coleman collaborated with Dorothy on the score, and Nem SIMON wrote the libretto. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 190
• Following a revival of Sweet Charity with Debbie Allen, the next failure at the Minskoff was Teddy and Alice (11/12/87; 77 performances), a musical starring Len Cariou. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 376
• Coleman had introduced jazz rhythms in Sweet Charity, having previously written standard Broadway scores for Wildcat and Little Me. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 74
• In four more Broadway shows, all with Fosse, Verdon owned Broadway: New Girl in Town (where she proved herself as a very fine dramatic actress), the murder-mystery musical Redhead (where she won her fourth Tony Award in seven years), Sweet Charity (where her over-the-shoulder stance became as famous as the Damn Yankees… Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 84

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 10 recordings of Sweet Charity document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.