Thanks for the specifics on the strike in 1960. I knew there was some sort of strike that had caused all the long-running shows of the 1959-60 season to seem to lose four performances, but hadn't realized that it had actually been 12 performances lost.
That's why long-running shows that opened on Mondays that season, like The Sound of Music and Fiorello!, are generally listed with performance totals that you'd expect to see for a Thursday-night opening (1,444 and 796, respectively), and long-runners that opened on Thursdays, like Toys and Bye Bye Birdie, are generally credited with performance totals you'd expect to see for a Monday opening (456, 608). Apparently, everything that was still running in June lost 12 performances. |
