The run closed January 8, 1989
- Opened
- August 25, 1980
- Closed
- January 8, 1989
- Performances
- 3,486
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Majestic Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 5th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of 42nd Street 1 more that season
| 2001 | Revival Revival | 1,524 perf. |
Who was in it122 named
Danny Carroll
Karen Prunczik
Carole Banninger
Steve Belin
Robin Black
Mary Cadorette
Robert Colston
James Congdon
Ronny Devito
Denise Direnzo
Mark Dovey
Rob Draper
Brandt Edwards
Jon Engstrom
Sharon Ferrol
Cathy Greco
Dawn Herbert
Christine Jacobsen
Jeri Kansas
Ginny King
Terri Ann Kundrat
Shan Martin
Beth Mcvey
Maureen Mellon
Sandra Menhart
Bill Nabel
Stan Page
Tony Parise
Don Percassi
Jean Preece
Vicki Regan
Lars Rosager
Linda Sabatelli
Nikki Sahagen
Ron Schwinn
Yveline Semeria
Alison Sherve
Robin Stephens
David Storey
Karen Tamburrelli
Doreen Alderman
Dennis Angulo
Dennis Batutis
Pam Cecil
Paula Joy Belis
Jack Karcher
Billye Keysey
Karen Klump
Kelli Ann Mcnally
Ken Mitchell
Gail Pennington
Michael Ricardo
Millicent Martin
Lisa Brown
Jessica James
Clare Leach
Stephen G Arlen
Gail Benedict
James Brennan
Peggy Cass
Charlotte Fairchild
Jennifer Hammond
Jered Holmes
Billye Kersey
Neva Leigh
Marie Lillo
Gail Lohla
Bobby Longbottom
Denise Lor
Barbara Mandra
Ken Prescott
Anne Rogers
Marla Singer
Dorothy Stanley
Carol Swarbrick
Louise Troy
Mary Chris Wall
Jim Walton
Cathy Wydner
Karen Ziemba
Diane Abrams
Susan Banks
Betsy Chang
Kelly Crafton
Michael Dantuono
Judy Ehrlich
David Fredericks
Russell Giesenschlag
Suzie Jarie
Beth Leavel
Bobo Lewis
Gwendolyn Miller
Rosemary Rado
Renee Robertson
Anne Rutter
Jeanna Schweppe
David Schwing
Pamela Scott
J Thomas Smith
Karen Sorensen
Luke Stallings
Susanne Leslie Sullivan
Vickie Taylor
Michael Vita
25 of these 122 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 97 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters14 roles recorded
Wanda Richert Peggy Sawyer
Lee Roy Reams Billy Lawlor
Tammy Grimes Dorothy Brock
Jerry Orbach Julian Marsh
Carole Cook Maggie Jones
Joseph Bova Bert Barry
Danny Carroll Andy Lee
James Congdon Pat Denning
Don Crabtree Abner Dillon
Stan Page Mac
Karen Pruczik Ann “Anytime Annie” Reilly
Ginny King Lorraine Flemming
Jeri Kansas Phyllis Dale
Robert Colston Oscar
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Gower Champion
- Choreographer
- Gower Champion
- Producer
- David Merrick
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 2 from 8 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
Director Gower Champion died the afternoon of opening night. Producer David Merrick withheld the news until curtain call, when he announced it to the stunned cast and audience from the stage. The show ran for nearly nine years and became one of the longest-running musicals in Broadway history at the time.
Last night at the Winter Garden Theatre, Gower Champion had what was perhaps the biggest success of his considerable career with the David Merrick musical 42nd Street. More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 323
- 42ND STREET 3,486 performances Opened August 25, 1980; Closed January 8, 1989 Theatre World 2003 04 Season V 60 Willis, p. 291
- 42ND STREET (REVIVAL)* 1,268 performances Opened May 2, 2001 Theatre World 2003 04 Season V 60 Willis, p. 293
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for 42nd Street at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.