Gantry
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Gantry [14 February 1970] musical play by Peter Bellwood (bk), Stanley Lebowsky (mu), Fred Tobias (lyr) [George Abbott Thea; 1p]. The hard-drinking preacher Elmer Gantry (Robert Shaw), who mesmerizes his audiences as he takes advantage of them, meets his match in the person of the popular evangelist Sister Sharon (Rita Moreno).
- Opened
- 1970
- Performances
- 1
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Revolution
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1970 | George Abbott Theatre Original. February 14, 1970 · Onna White | 1 performances |
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The theater’s last show did even worse. Gantry (2/14/70), with Robert Shaw and Rita Moreno, opened and closed in one day. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p207
Gantry was merely an unheralded, negligible flop. Unable to afford an out-of-town tryout, the show played thirty-two underattended previews at the Abbott. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p342
Heathen! was also the second (and final) musical from the youthful producers of the Exodus-based Ari. And it was the sixth Broadway musical in less than a year and a half to shutter after only one performance. (All right, Pll name them: La Strada, Gantry, Blood Red Roses, Frank Merriwell, Wild and Wonderful, and Heathe… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-steven-suskin#p438
If Here’s Where I Belong was a bleak, dullish show, it was a lark compared to The Yearling (Alvin; Dec. 10, ’65; 3), adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1939 novel. The Yearling tripled the runs of one-nighters Gantry and Here’s Where’s I Belong. book:not-since-carrie-forty-years-of-broadway-musical-flops-ken-mandelbaum#p160
Despite Jimmy’s $1 million loss, let’s call Gantry (as in Elmer) the biggest flop of the season—not just because it ran one night, but also because its plan to get feedback from out-of-town critics was the biggest flop idea of the season, too. book:broadway-musicals-the-biggest-hit-and-the-biggest-flop-of-filichia-peter-new-yor#p88
Gantry, a musical version of Sinclair Lewis’s novel Elmer Gantry, was a one-night flop. book:broadway-yearbook-2001-2002-a-relevant-and-irreverent-steven-suskin-kindle-2003-#p242
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