The run closed December 21, 1978
- Opened
- December 21, 1978
- Closed
- December 21, 1978
- Performances
- 1
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 550th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it34 named
Sydney Anderson
Gwen Arment
Nate Barnett
Maris Clement
Prudence Darby
Don Edward Detrick
Gwyda Donhowe
Sharon Ferrol
Michael Gallagher
Scott Geralds
Maggy Gorrill
Jackee Harry
Leon Jackson
Reggie Jackson
Carleton Jones
Christina Kumi Kimball
Robert Melvin
Jo Ann Ogawa
Karen Paskow
Martin Rabbett
Larry Riley
Albert Stephenson
Marilynn Winbush
Brad Witsger
10 of these 34 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 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.
Creative team
- Director
- Gower Champion
- Choreographer
- Gower Champion
- Orchestrations
- Robert M. Freedman
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.
Around this production
During that run, things got sticky when the white producers of this show about whites producing a black musical fired the black Faison and replaced him with the white Gower Champion.
December 21, 1978 A Broadway Musical Strouse 299 Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 465
- In the 1970s, Strouse and Adams went their separate ways, collaborating only twice in the next twenty-five years on the flops A Broadway Musical and Bring Back Birdie, a rare (and unfortunate) musical sequel. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 49
- A Broadway Musical proved a bargain at a cool million—all five opening within a grisly twelve weeks. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 36
- Kean lost his two stars (Julius LaRosa and Helen Gallagher) and—needless to say— canned his black director-choreographer. Gower Champion, at the nadir of his career, made a half hearted rehabilitory stab at the material, but the fate of 4 Broadway Musical was preordained. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 136
- Gower did—on to seven, count ’em, really bad shows (including such horrors as the out-of-town flop Prettybelle (1971], Rockabye Hamlet [1976], and A Broadway Musical [1978]) before drawing his career, and life, to a close on a high point in 1980 with 42nd Street. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 435
- [with 5 pans] Ambassador Ari Billy A Broadway Musical Coco Good News Goodtime Charley Her First Roman Here’s Where I Belong I Remember Mama La Strada Mack & Mabel Merrily We Roll Along Molly Music Is Oh, Brother! Rainbow Jones Rex So Long, 174th Street Timbuktu! A Time for Singing The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall Via… More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1075
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 character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for A Broadway Musical at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.