It was the Broadway season when Barbra Streisand demanded
"Don’t Rain on My Parade" and Carol Channing heard the
waiters at the Harmonia Gardens say "Hello, Dolly!". From
June 1, 1963 through the final day of May 31, 1964,
theatergoers were offered 68 different productions: 24 new
plays, 15 new comedies, 14 new musicals, 5 revivals of
plays, 3 revues, 3 plays in Yiddish, 2 in
French, 1 double bill and even 1 puppet show.
Peter Filichia’s The Great Parade will look at what a
Broadway season looked like a half
century ago analyzing the hits, the flops, the trends, the
surprises, the disappointments, the stars and even how the
assassination of JFK and the arrival of the Beatles affected
Broadway.
The Great Parade is a chronicle of a Broadway season
unprecedented in the star power onstage: Barbara Streisand,
Carol Channing, Claudette Colbert. Colleen Dewhurst, Hal
Holbrook, Mary Martin, Christopher Plummer, Robert Preston,
Julie Harris, Jason Robards, Jr., Carol Burnett, Tallulah
Bankhead, Alec Guinness, Kirk Douglas, Albert Finney, Paul
Newman, Joanne Woodward, Richard Burton, Mary Martin,
Beatrice Lillie, Hermione Gingold, Robert Redford and many
more. Neil Simon and Stephen Sondheim burst on to the
Broadway stage with Barefoot in the Park and Anyone Can
Whistle. The ’63 - ’64 season was one of Broadway’s greatest
and in The Great Parade, Peter Filichia gives us another
classic.
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