Marcia Rodd was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as Maud in the Broadway production.

Arthur can sing, do strange things with back projections so that Michael can command his environment, from day to night, from country scene to moonlit stratosphere, and does party tricks.

She stays the night, but when morning comes, so does the beautiful cleaning girl who is madly in love with Michael, and then, too, his wife shows up.

The original production started previews on Jan 22, 1973 and officially opened on February 6, 1973, at the John Golden Theatre, after an out of town tryout at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park during the summer of 1972.

[6]Clive Barnes wrote in his review in The New York Times "People liking their Broadway musicals to be bold and brassy, will not take to “Shelter.” But, people appreciating more of a chamber musical, intimate, even cozy, should find this a warmly pleasant evening.".