THE GOLDEN APPLE
ORIGINAL PRODUCTION
THE SHOW
ORIGINAL PRODUCTION
MEMORIES
PRODUCER’S PAGE
PHOENIX THEATRE POSTER
ALVIN THEATRE POSTER
ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST AT THE ALVIN THEATRE
(IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)
Helen (A Farmer’s Daughter):Â Kaye Ballard
Lovey Mars (The Local Matchmaker):Â Bibi Osterwald
Mrs. Juniper (The Mayor’s Wife): Charlotte Rae
Miss Minerva Oliver (The Village School Marm): Portia Nelsen
Mother Hare (The Local Mystic): Martha Larrimore
Penelope (Ulysses’ Wife): Priscilla Gillette
Menelaus (The Old Sheriff): Dean Michener
The Heroes:
Captain Mars: Frank Seabolt
Ajax: Marten Sameth
Agamemnon: Crandall Diehl
Nestor: Maurice Edwards
Bluey: Murray Gitlin
Thirsty: Don Redlich
Silas: Peter de Mayo
Homer: Barton Mumaw
Diomede: Robert Flavelle
Achilles: Julian Patrick
Patroelus: Richard Hermany
Doc MacCahan: Gary Gordon
Ulysses (A Veteran ): Stephen Douglass
Theron: David Hooks
Mayor Juniper: Jerry Stiller
Paris (A traveling Salesman): Jonathan Lucas
The Figurehead: Dee Harless
Hector/Charybdis (Mayor of Rhododendron): Jack Whiting
The Local Girls: Sara Bettis, Dorothy Etheridge, Nelle Fisher, Dee Harless, Janet Hayes. Lois McCauley, Ann Needham, Joli Roberts, Jere Stevens, Tao Strong, Helen Ahola, Anniliese Widman, Mitzi Wilson
The Local Boys: Santo Anselmo, Bob Gay, Ed Grace, Bill Nuss, Charles Post, Arthur Schoep, Robert Bakanic
Narration by Jack Whiting
THE CREATIVE TEAM
Music composed by Jerome Moross
Lyrics by John Latouche
Book by John Latouche and Jerome Moross
Choreography by Hanya Holm
Musical Director Hugh Ross
Settings by William & Jean Eckart
Costumes by Alvin Colt
Lighting by Klaus Holm
Directed by Norman Lloyd
THE GOLDEN APPLE:
THE COMPLETE VOCAL SCORE
THE GOLDEN APPLE is a highly acclaimed 1954 Broadway musical based on Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey. The score by John Latouche and Jerome Moross has been compared to music from Porgy and Bess and Candide for its opera-like qualities. Experience these marvelous songs with this special edition, which includes favorites such as “It’s the Coming Home Together” and “Lazy Afternoon.”
WINDFLOWERS: THE SONGS OF JEROME MOROSS
WINDFLOWERS offers delectable proof, with selections from his stage shows Ballet Ballads, The Golden Apple, Underworld, and Gentlemen, Be Seated! Alice Ripley, Richard Muenz, Jessica Molaskey, Philip Chaffin and Jenny Giering – five singers equally at home on Broadway, in cabaret and in the recording studio – celebrate an American original, in nineteen selections alternately playful and atmospheric, and always highly melodic.
THE GOLDEN APPLE:Â THE FIRST COMPLETE RECORDING
When it premiered in 1954, composer Jerome Moross and librettist John Latouche’s THE GOLDEN APPLE was hailed as “the most original musical since Oklahoma!” (The Washington Post), “the best thing that has happened in and to the theatre in a very long time” (New York Daily News), and “a magnificent achievement. A sensational success. The most imaginative work of its kind” (New York Daily Mirror).