Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1971

The run closed May 20, 1973

Opened

December 1, 1971

Closed

May 20, 1973

Performances

614

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

St. James Theatre

Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and carry a performance count, this is the 42nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Two Gentlemen of Verona 3 more that season

1958	Phoenix Theatre Original · Michael Langham	28 perf.
1971	Transfer Transfer
1973	Transfer Transfer

Who was in it53 named

Alvin Lum
Frank O Brien
Jose Perez
Frederic Warriner
Loretta Abbott
Christopher Alden
Roger Briant
Douglas Brickhouse
Paul Dejohn
Richard de Russo
Nancy Denning
Arthur Erickson
Georgyn Geetlein
Jeff Goldblum
Albert Insinnia
Jane Jaffe
Signa Joy
Sakinah Mahammud
Phineas
Otis Sallid
Madeleine Swift
Carlos Cestero
Stanton Edghill
Robbee Fian
Larry Giroux
Gregory V Karliss
La Lupe
Wendy Mansfield
Taro Meyer
Craig Richard Nelson
M J Quinn
Buena Rivera
David Thomas
Chesley Uxbridge
Arnetia Walker
Elwoodson Williamson
Victor Willis
Morton Winston

15 of these 53 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 38 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

Mel Shapiro

Choreographer

Jean Erdman

Producer

Joseph Papp for the

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 1 from 1 nomination

Best Musical

Won

Recordings 2 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Two Gentlemen of Verona, 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

• In 1971 Joseph Papp then brought his musical success Two Gentlemen of Verona from Central Park to this theatre, where it stayed for 613 performances, winning a Tony Award for best musical. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 281
• Two Gentlemen of Verona, winner of the book award, carried off the award for Best Musical. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 554
• Two Gentlemen of Verona, a rock version of Shakespeare that transferred from the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park to a successful run on Broadway, beating out Stephen Sondheim's Follies for the Tony Award in 1972. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 157
• MacDermot's rock musical scores include Hair (1968), Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971), Dude (1972), and Via Galactica (1972); the first two succeeded while the latter two failed. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 244
• No, No, Nanette (1971), Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971), and Raisin (1973), and far shorter than superhits Pippin (1972) and Grease (1972). More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 561

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 Two Gentlemen of Verona document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.