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1966 NEW JERSEY PRODUCTIONS |
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Two
months later, in
September of 1966, The Meadowbrook Dinner Theatre in Cedar Grove, New
Jersey presented What Makes Sammy Run? with Gary Crosby as
Sammy Glick.
"Crosby is too YMCA for the part. He's heavy and has plenty of muscle. But he has a somnolent, cabaret voice -- the kind that would make olives rotate slowly in a martini glass if the table was stage-side. Never, however, is he the Glick to loathe and love. Half of his lines never reached the audience because they were fired seemingly half-heartedly from a weak bow. Mannerisms he has, and plenty of them. They keep him up there. And when the lights hit him right, you find yourself thinking, "My God, that's Bing!" But then, Bing wouldn't have been a good Glick either." William Gordon, Newark Evening News. [THE MUSICAL] [TORONTO] [LOS ANGELES] [FORT WORTH] |
Beginning
on Tuesday, July 19, 1966, Julius LaRosa (right) starred as Sammy Glick
at St. John Terrell's Music Circus in Lambertville, New Jersey.
The one-week summer stock production featured Earl Hammond as Al
Manheim, Diahn Williams as Laurette Harrington and Natalie Costa as Kit
Sargent. Costa had understudied the character of Laurette on
Broadway. (See the Playbill 
Although Ted Scott as Al Manheim ("absolutely
sterling") and Joanna Lester as Kit Sargent ("simply
exquisite") received excellent reviews, Crosby (left) was not as well-received:
