Shows · Something More!
Novelist Bill Deems (Arthur Hill) and his family (Barbara Cook, Neva Small, Kenny Kealy, Eric White) leave their dreary suburban lifestyle in Mineola, New York, and move to Italy where they find excitement and romance, at least for a time. Also cast: Michael Kermoyan, Joan Copeland, Paula Kelly, Jo Jo Smith, Hal Linden, Peg Murray, Ronny Graham.
- Opened
- 1964
- Performances
- 15
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1964 | Eugene O’Neill Original. November 10, 1964 · Jule Styne | 15 performances |
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William Goldenberg (dance music arranger of Bennett’s early Henry, Sweet Henry [1967]) and the Bergmans (whose only show had been the 1964 flop Something More!) had provided the incidental songs for TV. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p105
Alas, they turned out to be a trio of 1964 offerings from producer Lester Osterman—High Spirits, Fade Out—Fade In, and Something More!—and the specimen at hand. Henry's teenaged chorus girls pretty much described the proceed-ings in the very opening number book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p449
In the scramble by record companies to capture the next big hit, ABC-Paramount-On Stage plunked down one million bucks for half-interests in four big Broadway musicals. Alas, they turned out to be a trio of 1964 offerings from producer Lester Osterman—High Spirits, Fade Out—Fade In, and Something More!—and the specimen… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-steven-suskin#p448
Fain, who wrote five consecutive Broadway musical flops (Toplitzky of Notre Dame, Flahooley, Ankles Aweigh, Christine, Something More! ), never failed to come up with a few catchy tunes, and the cast recording of Ankles Aweigh is the kind that collectors rarely admit to playing as often as they do. book:not-since-carrie-forty-years-of-broadway-musical-flops-ken-mandelbaum#p42
Of the flops, one—Something More! (Eugene O’Neill; Nov. 10, ’64; 15)—had virtually nothing going for it except Cook. book:not-since-carrie-forty-years-of-broadway-musical-flops-ken-mandelbaum#p65
Of the four major flops of the year three are long forgotten — Café Crown (3), Something More! or less (15), and the Italian Rugantino (28) by Giovannini and Garinei, three of whose musicals reached London — but one, Anyone Can Whistle (9) has passed into legend. book:west-end-broadway-the-golden-age-of-the-american-musical-adrian-wright-boydell-b#p235
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