Previews:
December 9, 1964
(7 previews)
Opening
December 15, 1964
Closing:
June 12, 1965
Length of Run:
199 perf.
Run Type:
Open-ended
Location: New York, NY
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Director
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Dances and Musical Numbers
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Garside
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Stan the Shpieler
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Jeannie
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Gimlet (The Alley Gang)
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Joe The Muzzler (The Alley Gang)
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Ma Maloney (The Alley Gang)
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George Osaka (The Alley Gang)
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Morocco
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Brooks
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Addie
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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.
Previews:
December 9, 1964
(7 previews)
Opening
December 15, 1964
Closing:
June 12, 1965
Length of Run:
199 perf.
Run Type:
Open-ended
Location: New York, NY
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