The Boy Friend
The Broadway production was a great success and a personal triumph for Julie Andrews but it was not without its problems. It had been intended that the original London production would be reproduced as closely as possible and with that in mind Vida Hope was the original director. However along the way the production became “Americanised” and Cy Feuer took over the direction close to opening. The author Sandy Wilson felt that the whole tone of the production was coarsened for America and he details his side of the story in his autobiography “I Could Be Happy”. Cy Feuer presents a slightly different view of what happened in his book “I Got The Show Right Here” where he puts the blame for the trouble squarely at Sandy Wilson’s door. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle but it is interesting to read the two contrasting versions.
Cast & Crew
Cast
| Alphonse | Buddy Schwab |
|---|---|
| Bobby van Husen | Bob Scheerer |
| Charles | Vincent Lynne |
| Dulcie | Dilys Laye
(credited as Dilys Lay) |
| Fay | Stella Claire |
| Gendarme | Douglas Deane |
| Guest | Mickey Calin |
| Guest | Marge Ellis |
| Guest | Phoebe Mackay |
| Hortense | Paulette Girard |
| Lady Brockhurst | Moyna Macgill |
| Lord Brockhurst | Geoffrey Hibbert |
| Madame Dubonnet | Ruth Altman |
| Maisie | Ann Wakefield |
| Marcel | Joe Milan |
| Monica | Berkley Marsh |
| Nancy | Millicent Martin |
| Nancy (Replacement) | Berkley Marsh |
| Percival Browne | Eric Berry |
| Phillipe | Jimmy Alex |
| Phillipe (Replacement) | John Perri |
| Pierre | Jerry Newby |
| Polly Browne | Julie Andrews |
| Polly Browne (Replacement) | Jean Bayless
(credited as Jo Ann Bayless) |
| Susanne | Lyn Connorty |
| Tony | John Hewer |
| Waiter | Lyn Robert |
Crew | |
| Choreograher | John Heawood |
| Designer & Costumes | Reginald Woolley |
| Director | Cy Feuer |
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