Tovarich

... Director	Peter Glenville
... Dances and Musical Numbers	Herbert Ross (i)

Cast

... Gorotchenko	Alexander Scourby
... Mikail	Jean-Pierre Aumont
... Admiral Boris Soukhomine	Michael Kermoyan
... Count Ivan Shamforoff	Gene Varrone
... Tatiana	Vivien Leigh
... Natalia Mayovskaya	Louise Troy
... Helen Davis	Margery Gray
... George Davis	Byron Mitchell
... Charles Davis	George S. Irving
... Grace Davis	Louise Kirtland

Act One

Act Two

Additional Musical Numbers Lists

These song lists document any changes that the production went through aside from the opening night song list.

• Boston Song List (3/15/1963)

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Star Vivien Leigh won excellent reviews for her performance, along with a Tony award (at a time when the Tonys did not have much effect on box office), but she was going through a difficult time mentally and perhaps physically as well. According to published interviews with cast members, she took a dislike to her co-star, Jean-Pierre Aumont, and she tried to get him replaced. Still, she managed to play the role on Broadway for more than six months before any serious problems occurred.

Then, at the matinee on Saturday, September 28, 1963, just before the production was to shut down for a week before re-opening at another theatre, she seemed to have some kind of breakdown during the performance. She managed to complete it, but she was replaced for the evening performance by her standby, Joan Copeland (who had subbed for her for seven performances when she'd had a virus in August and perhaps on some other occasions). 

By September 30, Leigh was in a nursing home in London. Her agent told the press that she would return to New York and to the show when it re-opened the following week, but she did not. Joan Copeland subbed from October 7 through October 19, until Eva Gabor was ready to take over. Business, however, was not good with Gabor. The production had received mixed reviews, with only Leigh being praised by almost all the critics, and the public was not interested in the show without Leigh. The truth is that the public was not all that interested in the show even with Leigh. It had a good advance sale, much of it due to theatre parties. It never played a sold-out week on Broadway, although it probably would have if it had not opened at the Broadway, at the time the biggest theatre on Broadway. After around five weeks, grosses were generally around the break-even point.

It closed on November 9, reportedly having lost its full investment of $450,000. The cost of moving theatres twice was also a factor in the loss of the entire investment, even though moving theatres was relatively inexpensive at the time. With its elaborate physical production, however, the cost of moving Tovarich was probably quite for the time.

Still, had it ever done especially well at the box office for an extended period, it probably would have returned to the backers some portion of their investment.

Main Run

• Broadway Theatre (New York, NY)
  March 18, 1963 - June 8, 1963
• Majestic Theatre (New York, NY)
  June 10, 1963 - September 28, 1963
• Winter Garden Theatre (New York, NY)
  October 7, 1963 - November 9, 1963

Tryout

• Erlanger Theatre (Philadelphia, PA)
  January 21, 1963 - February 9, 1963
• Colonial Theatre (Boston, MA)
  February 12, 1963 - March 9, 1963

Commercial Recordings

• Original Broadway Cast (May 19, 1963)
  Alexander Scourby , Paul Michael , Jean-Pierre Aumont , Michael Kermoyan , Gene Varrone

Private Recordings

• No private audio listed yet.

Broadcast Recordings

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Archival Recordings

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