I Had a Ball

... Director	Lloyd Richards
... Dances and Musical Numbers	Onna White

Cast

... Garside	Buddy Hackett
... Stan the Shpieler	Richard Kiley
... Jeannie	Karen Morrow
... Gimlet (The Alley Gang)	Al Nesor
... Joe The Muzzler (The Alley Gang)	Jack Wakefield
... Ma Maloney (The Alley Gang)	Rosetta Le Noire
... George Osaka (The Alley Gang)	Conrad Yama
... Morocco	Morocco
... Brooks	Steve Roland
... Addie	Luba Lisa

Act One

Act Two

Additional Musical Numbers Lists

No additional musical numbers lists yet.

In his memoir, They All Sang My Songs, Jack Lawrence (credited jointly with Stan Freeman for the music and the lyrics) wrote that the show was doing well at the box office but they closed it when star Buddy Hackett demanded two weeks off and refused to allow the producers to hire a replacement to take over for those two weeks. Hackett had already demanded a week off, during which the show closed.

Whatever truth there may have been in some of this, the show was not doing well at the box office when it closed. Box office had been going downhill since mid-April. For the several weeks preceding the decision to chose, the grosses had been moving in a generally downhill direction, getting into the area where the show was either just about grossing the weekly nut or was grossing under the weekly nut.

When Hackett was a guest on The Merv Griffin Show on June 10, 1965 (two days before the closing), he claimed that the show was doing well despite the fact that it was about to clos. According to Variety, he claimed "we're grossing this week over $60,000." When aked by Griffin why the show was closing, Hackett replied, "I have no idea, That's one of the mysteries of all time, to close a hit show."

That week, the show grossed $47,179. Perhaps because the closing had been been announced, this was an improvement over the previous week, when the show grossed just $39,547. 

Main Run

• Martin Beck Theatre (New York, NY)
  12/15/1964 - 6/12/1965 [On hiatus April 12-17, 1965]

Tryout

• Fisher Theatre (Detroit, MI)
  10/26/1964 - 11/21/1964
• Forrest Theatre (Philadelphia, PA)
  11/24/1964 - 12/5/1964

Commercial Recordings

• Promotional Album (1964)
  Karen Morrow , Louis Armstrong , Sarah Vaughan
• Original Broadway Cast (1964)
  Buddy Hackett , Richard Kiley , Karen Morrow , Al Nesor , Jack Wakefield

Private Recordings

• No private audio listed yet.

Broadcast Recordings

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Archival Recordings

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