![]() I'm sorry to have to report that today, Gower Champion died." According to The Washington Post, the first part of his announcement was met with a few laughs from the audience, who thought this was another example of Merrick's publicity stunts. Following a lengthy standing ovation, Merrick went onstage and stated, "This is a very tragic moment. ![]() ![]() However, the opening night triumph was overshadowed by tragedy. The original Broadway production is the 15th longest running show in Broadway history, as of October 1, 2021. Aldredge (costumes), and Tharon Musser (lights) were the same team who had designed the original Broadway production of A Chorus Line. (Karen Prunzik, who originated the role of Anytime Annie, briefly played the role of Peggy when Wanda Richert became ill and her understudy abruptly quit the show.) The show's designers, Robin Wagner (sets), Theoni V. Notable replacements included Barry Nelson and Don Chastain and Jamie Ross who played Julian for the last three years of its Broadway run, Elizabeth Allen, Dolores Gray and Millicent Martin as Dorothy, and Lisa Brown, Mary Cadorette and Karen Ziemba as Peggy. The original cast included Jerry Orbach as Julian Marsh, Tammy Grimes as Dorothy Brock, Wanda Richert as Peggy Sawyer, and Lee Roy Reams as Billy Lawlor. It was produced by David Merrick and featured orchestrations by Philip J. The production was directed and choreographed by Gower Champion. James, closing on January 8, 1989, after 3,486 performances and 6 previews. The musical opened on Broadway on August 25, 1980, at the Winter Garden Theatre, and then moved to the Majestic and finally to the St. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which is located in Washington, D.C. In June 1980, the musical premiered in out-of-town tryouts at the John F. Champion followed this number with a series of tap-infused extravaganzas larger and more polished than anything Broadway really had in the 1930s." Productions Original Broadway production According to theater historian John Kenrick, "When the curtain slowly rose to reveal forty pairs of tap-dancing feet, the star-studded opening night audience at the Winter Garden cheered. ![]() Producer David Merrick "took a huge gamble with his $3 million production based on the 1933 Warner Brothers film musical", as "only one other show had made the transfer from original movie musical to the stage - Gigi, a flop in 1974." He felt audiences once again were ready to embrace the nostalgia craze started by the successful revivals of No, No, Nanette, Irene, and his own Very Good Eddie several years earlier, and augmented the familiar songs from the film's soundtrack with a liberal dose of popular tunes from the Dubin-Warren catalog. A 2017 revival added the song " Boulevard of Broken Dreams", written by Warren and Dubin for Moulin Rouge. ![]() It also includes "There's a Sunny Side to Every Situation", written by Warren and Johnny Mercer for Hard to Get. The show is a jukebox musical of sorts, in that, in addition to songs from the 1933 film 42nd Street, it includes songs that Dubin and Warren wrote for many other films at around the same time, including Gold Diggers of 1933, Roman Scandals, Dames, Gold Diggers of 1935, Go into Your Dance, Gold Diggers of 1937 and The Singing Marine. The show was also produced in London in 1984 (winning the Olivier Award for Best Musical) and its 2001 Broadway revival won the Tony Award for Best Revival.īased on the 1932 novel by Bradford Ropes and the subsequent 1933 Hollywood film adaptation, the backstage musical show that follows the rehearsal process of a broadway show being put on during the height of the Great Depression. The 1980 Broadway production won the Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Choreography and it became a long-running hit. Tony Award for Best Revival of a MusicalĤ2nd Street is a 1980 stage musical with a book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, lyrics by Al Dubin and Johnny Mercer and music by Harry Warren. ![]()
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