Goldilocks, which opened in 1958 and won two Tonys, is about a stage actress (originally played by Elaine Stritch) and a movie director (Dom Ameche) feuding while trying to scant enough money to make this epic film about Ancient Egypt. Jean Kerr (Please Don’t Eat the Daisies and Mary, Mary) and her husband, the Pulitzer Prize winning critic Walter Kerr, wrote the book.
The music is by Leroy Anderson, whose work includes "The Syncopated Clock" and "Sleigh Ride." The songs for Goldilocks include "I Never Know When To Say When," "I Can’t Be In Love," and "No One’ll Ever Love You Like I Do."
Book by Walter Kerr and Jean Kerr
Walter Kerr was drama critic for The New York Herald Tribune from 1951 and then for The New York Times from 1966. He co-authored the revue Count Me In, 1942; wrote and directed Sing Out, Sweet Land, 1945; wrote Touch and Go (in collaboration with his wife), 1949: directed King of Hearts (co-authored by his wife), 1954. He wrote several books of drama criticism including How Not to Write a Play, 1955; Criticism and Censorship, 1957; Pieces of Eight, 1958; The Decline of Pleasure, 1962; The Theatre in Spite of Itself, 1963; Tragedy and Comedy, 1967; Thirty Plays Hath November, 1969; God on the Gymnasium Floor, 1971; and The Silent Clowns, 1975. One of only two critics (the other being Brooks Atkinson) to have a theatre named after him, Mr. Kerr won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama Criticism in 1978.
Jean Kerr was educated at Catholic University in Washington. Her first play, Jenny Kissed Me, was produced on Broadway in 1948; she also wrote Touch and Go (with her husband, Walter Kerr), 1949; two sketches for John Murray Anderson’s Almanac, 1953; King of Hearts, the comedy (with Eleanor Brooke), 1954; Mary, Mary, 1961; Poor Richard, 1964; Finishing Touches, 1973. Ms. Kerr is the author of the books Please Don’t Eat the Daisies and The Snake Has All The Lines, which were adapted for a television series, 1965. She also wrote Penny Candy in 1970.
Lyrics by Walter Kerr, Joan Ford (Goldilocks being her only Broadway effort)& Jean Kerr
Music by Leroy Anderson
Anderson studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and at Harvard University. At Harvard, he was an organist, choirmaster, and orchestra director from 1929-1935. In 1935 he left to begin a career as a composer of light orchestral works. He worked extensively for the Boston Pops Orchestra, then under the direction of Arthur Fiedler, and one of his first successes, composed in 1939, was "Jazz Pizzacato." After WWII, he resumed his career with a string of popular compositions, most of which he recorded with specially assembled orchestras. Some of his best known works include "Fiddle-Faddle," "Syncopated Clock," "Sleigh Ride," "Blue Tango," "Belle of the Ball," "Musical Typewriter," "Plink, Plank, Plunk," "Serenata," and the tune that became the theme, "Forgotten Dreams." Goldilocks was Mr. Anderson’s only Broadway score.
Director and Choreographer Thomas Mills
Musical Director, Vocal and Dance Arranger Mark Hartman
With Georgia Creighton*, Matthew Ellison, Jay Gould, Gene Jones*, Jen Celene Little*, Erin Malloy*, Michael McKenzie*, Kell Mealia*, Fabio Monteiro, James Patterson*, Joy E.T. Ross, Marc Smollin*, Cathy Trien*, Christopher Wisner*
*Denotes member of Actors Equity Association
Producer Mel Miller
Lighting by Lita Riddock
Casting Director Stephen De Angelis
Production Stage Manager Anthony Gallucio
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