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Shows · Sweet Charity · Palace Theatre, 1966

Sweet Charity, 1966

Opened January 29, 1966

Closed July 15, 1967

608 performances

Palace Theatre

Revival

Broadway

Sweet Charity

Of the productions that opened in the 1960s, this had the 37th longest run.

Other stagings of Sweet Charity 2 more

1986
RevivalBroadway Revival
369 performances
2005
Al Hirschfeld TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Walter Bobbie
279 performances

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

Creative team

Director
Bob Fosse
Choreographer
Bob Fosse
Producer
Robert Fryer, Lawrence Carr, Sylvia & Joseph Harris

Tony Awards 0 from 2 nominations

Best Musical
Nominated

Recordings 2 released while this run was on

1966
Sweet Charity (1966 original Broadway cast)
Sweet Charity (1966 original Broadway cast) Columbia KOL 6500, released 1966
United States
1966
Sweet Charity (1966 original Broadway cast) Columbia KOS 6500, released 1966
United States

8 more exist for other runs of this show: see Sweet Charity for all of them.

Around this production

The arrival of Sweet Charity (Prince of Wales Theatre, 11 October 1967; 476) marked a dist…

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

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