Subways Are For Sleeping
Shows · Subways Are For Sleeping
New Yorker Tom Bailey (Sydney Chaplin) has dropped out of society and rides on the subway all day. He falls in love with the magazine writer Angela McKay (Carol Lawrence). Also riding the subway is beauty contest winner Martha Vail (Phyllis Newman) who has been evicted and runs around in a towel, much to the bemusement of her sweetheart Charlie Smith (Orson Bean).
- Opened
- 1961
- Performances
- 205
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1961 | St. James Original. December 27, 1961 · Michael Kidd | 205 performances |
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32 passages naming Subways Are For Sleeping, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Despite a better-than-average score, which featured “Comes Once in a Lifetime,” the show played only 205 performances. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p133
Michael Kidd, Mark Breaux, and Jule Styne during rehearsals for Subways Are For Sleeping, 1961. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p537
Subways Are for Sleeping (12/27/61; 205 performances) was the threesome’s next offering. Sydney Chaplin, Carol Lawrence, Orson Bean, and Phyllis Newman starred. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p539
His next role, as Nick Arnstein in a third Styne musical, Funny Girl, became his swan song to the musical stage. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p38
In Subways Are for Sleeping, Orson Bean is enthralled by a towel-clad (and Tony-winning) Phyllis Newman as Miss America-loser “Martha Vail, in a musical dramatic playlet written and directed by herself” book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p169
Subways Are for Sleeping, 32. 83, 1603 book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p341
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