The run closed June 26, 2005
- Opened
- October 21, 2004
- Closed
- June 26, 2005
- Performances
- 284
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 75th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it11 named
Caren Lyn Manuel
Haneefah Wood
Shelley Thomas
8 of these 11 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 3 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.
Characters5 roles recorded
Diana DeGarmo Brooklyn
Kevin Anderson style="text-align:center;|Taylor Collins
Melba Moore Paradice
Julie Reiber Faith
Cleavant Derricks Streetsinger
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
- Jeff Calhoun
- Choreographer
- Jeff Calhoun
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 Awardscategories not held
0 wins from 1 nomination. Which categories is not on this record.
Around this production
Brooklyn the Musical is a musical with a book, lyrics, and music by Mark Schoenfeld and Barri McPherson. It was acquired for licensing by Broadway Licensing.
Arthur Schwartz: “He Had Refinement” from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1951), lyrics by Dorothy Fields.
Speaker not recorded. The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 517- A third musical titled Swing was by Elizabeth Swados, and it opened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in late 1987. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 402
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (4/19/51; 267 performances), the musical version of Betty Smith’s beloved novel. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 26
- Now stage managements found a new ploy to entice the errant cinema audience away from all those old movies on television. The answer was quite simple: give them old movie stories on the stage, complete with new words and music. The Best Musicals From Show Boat To A Chorus Line By Arthur Jackson Foreword By , p. 130
- She could not be diverted from the chief end of her life. Her economic security assured, she devoted the rest of her life, with very few interruptions, to producing Shakespeare. Broadway Atkinson Brooks 1894 1984 Rev Ed New York New York State 1990 New York , p. 43
- Built but never opened, Brooklyn’s Woodhull Medical Center was the perfect location. Fosse Sam Wasson, p. 447
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 Brooklyn at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.