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7 unusual facts about David Merrick


Frances Scott Fitzgerald

Her show Onward and Upward with the Arts was considered for a Broadway run by director David Merrick.

Gower Champion

After numerous curtain calls on opening night, producer David Merrick stunned the cast and audience by announcing Champion had died earlier that day.

Maria Golovin

Its first performance was at the International Exposition Pavilion Theater at Expo '58 in Brussels on 20 August 1958. Later that year, David Merrick and the NBC Opera mounted a Broadway production billed as a "musical drama."

Marisa Mell

After a preview performance in Washington, D.C. that became infamous for its numerous technical problems, producer David Merrick decided to close the production before its scheduled Broadway run.

Mark Bramble

He began his theatrical career working as an apprentice in David Merrick's office in 1971, and for whom he worked on many Broadway productions.

Ray Stark

While putting together the Broadway musical Funny Girl—the highly fictionalized account of the life of his mother-in-law, Fanny Brice—its producer David Merrick took Stark and his wife, Frances, to see an unknown singer perform at the Bon Soir in Greenwich Village.

Subways Are for Sleeping

Producer David Merrick and press agent Harvey Sabinson decided to invite individuals with the same names as prominent theatre critics (such as Walter Kerr, Richard Watts, Jr. and Howard Taubman) to see the show and afterwards used their favorable comments in print ads.


Raoul Felder

Felder has practiced divorce law for more than forty years, and has represented clients such as Rudy Giuliani, Robin Givens, Carol Channing, David Merrick, Riddick Bowe, the former Mrs. Carl Sagan, the former Mrs. Tom Clancy, the former Mrs. Patrick Ewing, and the former Mrs. Martin Scorsese.


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