The run closed February 21, 1982
- Opened
- May 9, 1978
- Closed
- February 21, 1982
- Performances
- 1,604
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Longacre Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 12th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Ain't Misbehavin' 2 more that season
| 1979 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 1988 | Ambassador Theatre Revival · Arthur Faria | 176 perf. |
Who was in it10 named
Hank Jones
Frank Owens
George Merritt
Jason Booker
Loretta Bowers
5 of these 10 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 5 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
- Richard Maltby Jr., Richard Maltby
- Choreographer
- Arthur Faria
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 1 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
Ain't Misbehavin' is a musical revue with a book by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby Jr., and music by various composers and lyricists as arranged and orchestrated by Luther Henderson. It is named after the song by Fats Waller (with Harry Brooks and Andy Razaf), "Ain't Misbehavin'". The musical is a tribute to the music of Waller (1904–1943), who composed in a time when Manhattan nightclubs such as the Cotton Club and the Savoy Ballroom were the playgrounds of high society and Lenox Avenue dives were filled with piano players banging out the new beat known as swing. Five performers present an evening of rowdy, raunchy, and humorous songs that encapsulate the various moods of the era and ref…
- Ain't Misbehavin', ( 1978), and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas(1978) were all Off Broadway or Off-OffBroadway transfers to Broadway that turned into runaway hits. Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 552
- Critics often cite Ain't Misbehavin' (1978) as the jukebox musical prototype. This revue used a catalogue of period songs associated with "Fats" Waller to re-create the performance styles of black artists of the Harlem Renaissance. Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 679
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 Ain't Misbehavin' at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.