Month of Sundays

Month of Sundays is sometimes confused with A Month of Sundays, which closed during its pre-Broadway tryout during the 1951-1952 season (its book and lyrics were by Burt Shevelove with additional lyrics by Ted Fetter, and the music was by Albert Selden). Curiously, A Month of Sundays also took place on board a sailing vessel (in this case, the S.S. Happiness).

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Clive Barnes in the New York Times complained that the evening suffered from “an excess of fantasy over sense,” and noted that “whimsy flowed ...like a flood and submerged all in sight.” The plot was an idea “gone hopelessly adrift” and it never made “relevant landfall.” Barnes indicated the music was “unmemorable yet modestly pleasing ... the country flavored score has a certain lyric charm,” and noted that the “strong-voiced” Patti Karr played “a secretary with a computer-heart of gold.”

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The musical had been previously produced at the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis.