Destry Rides Again had a moderately successful 472-performance run. Andy Griffith and Dolores Gray were nominated for Tony awards, and Michael Kidd received dual nominations as director and choreographer. But competition was tough in a season that included Gypsy, The Sound of Music, and Fiorello; the musical's only honor went to Kidd, for his rousing dance numbers.
   Griffith moved on to a little town called Mayberry in TV Land; The Andy Griffith Show ran for eight years and has remained a favorite with viewers. After several other series failed to catch on, he found another successful character in Matlock, a droll, homespun hero much like Griffith himself.
   American-born Dolores Gray's break came in 1947, when she starred in 'Annie Get Your Gun' in London. She never had the same sort of success on Broadway, in spite of appearances in 'Two on the Aisle' and 'Carnival in Flanders', the latter a flop that nevertheless brought her a Tony. After Destry, she was in the short-lived 'Sherry!' in 1967, replaced Angela Lansbury in the London run of 'Gypsy' in 1973, and in the early '80s toured in David Merrick's '42nd Street', Her last major appearance to date was in the 1987 London production of 'Follies', where she proved her star quality was still intact when she belted out Stephen Sondheim's "I'm Still Here."
   Director-choreographer Michael Kidd continued to work throughout the '60s and '70s, but musicals such as 'Wildcat', 'Here's Love', 'Skyscraper', and 'The Rothschilds' were minor successes at best. In I 993 he directed the musical version of the hit film 'The Goodbye Girl', but it too had a brief run.
   Harold Rome wrote a fine score for I 962's 'I Can Get It for You Wholesale', a show that became noteworthy for the Broadway debut of Barbra Streisand as harried secretary Miss Marmelstein. The 1965 'The Zulu and the Zayda' was a failure. In the late 60s, Rome was invited to Japan to write the score for a musical version of 'Gone with the Wind', with his lyrics translated into Japanese. Following its Tokyo run, a production was mounted in London in 1972. It ran about a year, but a U.S. version of the show opened and closed in Los Angeles in I 973. It was Rome's last stage work; he died October 26, 1993.
   Destry Rides Again has yet to be revived on Broadway. A scaled-down version, eliminating the colorful "Ladies" of Frenchy's saloon and with other changes, was presented in 1982 by the Donmar Warehouse in the fringe, London's equivalent of off-Broadway.