The run closed December 29, 2013
- Opened
- October 6, 2013
- Closed
- December 29, 2013
- Performances
- 98
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Neil Simon Theatre
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 211th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it23 named
Ryan Andes
Zachary Unger
Bree Branker
Robin Campbell
Bryn Dowling
Jason Lee Garrett
Leah Hofmann
J C Montgomery
Ciara Renee
Kirsten Scott
Lara Seibert
Sarrah Strimel
Cary Tedder
10 of these 23 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 13 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.
Characters11 roles recorded
Norbert Leo Butz Edward Bloom
Bobby Steggert Will Bloom
Kate Baldwin Sandra Bloom (Templeton)
Zachary Unger Anthony Pierni Young Will
Krystal Joy Brown Josephine Bloom
Ryan Andes Karl
Brad Oscar Amos Calloway
Ben Crawford Don Price
Katie Thompson The Witch
Kirsten Scott Jenny Hill
Alex Brightman Zacky Price
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
- Susan Stroman
- Choreographer
- Susan Stroman
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
Big Fish is a musical with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and book by John August. It is based on Daniel Wallace's 1998 novel, Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions, and the 2003 film Big Fish written by John August and directed by Tim Burton. Big Fish revolves around the relationship between Edward Bloom, a travelling salesman, and his adult son Will. The story shifts between two timelines. In the present-day real world, sixty-year-old Edward Bloom faces his mortality while his son, Will, prepares to become a father himself. In the storybook past, Edward ages from a teenager, encountering a Witch, a Giant, a Mermaid, and the love of his life, Sandra. The stories meet as Will discovers t…
- Hugh Wheeler’s Big Fish, Little Fish (3/15/61; 101 performances) was directed by Sir John Gielgud. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 569
- In the 1960s Wheeler branched out into playwriting with three theatrical works: Big Fish, Little Fish (1961, starring Jason Robards and Hume Cronyn); Look, We’ve Come Through (1961); and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1966, based on a Shirley Jackson novel). The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 912
- Lippa’s latest musical Big Fish opened and closed in fall of 2013. A History of the American Musical Theatre No Business Like Nathaniel Hurwitz Tay, p. 268
- Between 2001 and 2014 the majority of new musicals were based on successful movies; these include: ... Big Fish and Rocky, The Musical. A History of the American Musical Theatre No Business Like Nathaniel Hurwitz Tay, p. 287
- Andrew Lippa’s Big Fish came and went fairly unceremoniously. A History of the American Musical Theatre No Business Like Nathaniel Hurwitz Tay, p. 300
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 Big Fish at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.