Previews:
December 1, 1966
(4 previews)
Opening
December 5, 1966
Closing:
June 15, 1968
Length of Run:
560 perf.
Run Type:
Open-ended
Location: New York, NY
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Iva Withers and Bob Carroll were hired as standbys for Mary Martin and Robert Preston, but they were dismissed shortly before performances began on Broadway. It had been decided instead to obtain insurance to indemnify the management in case either Martin or Preston could not go on. (Source: Sam Zolotow's theatre column in the New York Times, November 25, 1966.)
Unstated but implied is that if either star was unable to go on, the performance would be canceled, and that is what did happen in those circumstances.
When Martin and Preston left the show, standbys were hired for replacements Carol Lawrence and Gordon MacRae. Those standbys were Stephen Douglass and Dran Hamilton (who was better known under the name she had used earlier in her career, Dran Seitz).
Previews:
December 1, 1966
(4 previews)
Opening
December 5, 1966
Closing:
June 15, 1968
Length of Run:
560 perf.
Run Type:
Open-ended
Location: New York, NY
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