Sherry!
Shows · Sherry!
The musical version of the Kaufman and Hart comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939) featured Clive Revill as the celebrated radio star Sheridan Whiteside who is laid up in the Ohio home of the Stanley family and drives them all to distraction with his demands. Elizabeth Allen was his wisecracking secretary Maggie, Dolores Gray was the temperament star Lorraine Sheldon, and Byron Webster was the Noel Cowardish Englis…
- Opened
- 1967
- Performances
- 65
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Revolution
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1967 | Alvin Theatre Original. March 28, 1967 · Joe Layton | 72 performances |
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Recordings 1 album held
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Sherry! (1967). Finally, a palpable hit arrived in October 1967, when Tom Stoppards coruscating play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p292
Her last original role in a musical was the short-lived Sherry!, in which she considerably brightened the proceedings with her trademark verve. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p90
These were the same gentlemen who in 1967 produced Sherry!, and who in 1974 had the bright idea of transmogrifying the twenty-five-year-old Carol Channing vehicle Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949) into the Carol Channing vehicle Lorelei. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p131
Choreographer Ron Field (who was also fired from Ais prior show, Sherry! [1967]. What a way to follow up Cabaret [1966]). book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p364
Da Costa was to receive only one Broadway musical assignment from 1967 until his death in 1989, and Maggie Flynn was it. But then, this was a year before Kent State. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p593
CHARLIE BROWN opened during one of the most dismal stretches Broadway had ever known, with sixteen consecutive flop musicals in a row— including BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S [Merrill: December 14, 1966], SHERRY! [March 28, 1967], MATA HARI! [December 9, 1967], GOLDEN RAINBOWT [February 4, 1968], and I’M SOLO- MONT [April 23,… book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p426
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