Jennie
Shows · Jennie
The turn-of-the-century stage actress Jennie Malone (Mary Martin) puts up with her manager-husband James O’Connor (George Wallace), a drunken lout who seems to hinder her career more than help it, until she meets the gentlemanly British playwright Christopher Lawrence Cromwell (Robin Bailey) who changes her professional and personal life.
- Opened
- 1963
- Performances
- 82
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1963 | Majestic Theatre Original. October 17, 1963 · Vincent J. Donehue | 82 performances |
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Recordings 1 album held
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14 passages naming Jennie, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Mary Martin in the flop musical Jennie, supposedly based on the early career of actress Laurette Taylor. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p272
Next came one of Martin’s few failures, Jennie (10/ 17/63; 82 performances). The musical, based on the early career of actor Laurette Taylor, had a score by Mary Martin in The Sound of Music, 1959. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p359
The best element of JENNIE was the music, including the final beautiful book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p281
Jennie, their 1963 vehicle for Mary Martin, played for 82 showings. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p369
Golden Age musicals: ... Jennie, 10/17/63; Anyone Can Whistle, 4/4/64... book:the-golden-age-of-american-musical-theatre-1943-1965-naden-corinne-j-rowman-litt#p206
She earned an Emmy nomination for her performance as Winston Churchill’s mother, Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1975). book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p652
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