The run closed April 16, 1978
- Opened
- March 30, 1978
- Closed
- April 16, 1978
- Performances
- 5
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- August Wilson Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 513th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it15 named
Maureen Anderman
Jeff Brooks
Bryan E Clark
Ben Halley Jr
Kate Mcgregor Stewart
Joan Pape
April Shawhan
Mary Catherine Wright
7 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 8 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
- David Chambers
- Choreographer
- Graciela Daniele
- 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
Playwright Christopher Durang wrote this as a play with music, and it featured early career performances by Swoosie Kurtz, Jeff Daniels, and future Star Trek star Brent Spiner.
- A History of the American Film, book by Christopher Durang, music by Mel Marvin; Angel, book by Ketti Frings and Peter Udell, music by Gary Geld, lyrics by Udell. Ever After the Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond Barry Singer, p. 249
- Other original Broadway book musicals: A History of the American Film, book by Christopher Durang, music by Mel Marvin; Angel, book by Ketti Frings and Peter Udell, music by Gary Geld, lyrics by Udell. Ever After the Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond Singer Barry 1957 New Yo, p. 325
- Daniele left the show to honor her commitment to do musical staging for the musical revue A History of the American Film, which ran for twenty-one performances on Broadway in March to April 1978. The Musical Theater of Stephen Schwartz From Godspell To Paul R Laird Rowman Lit, p. 166
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 History of the American Film at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.