The run closed September 28, 1980
- Opened
- September 14, 1980
- Closed
- September 28, 1980
- Performances
- 17
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Helen Hayes Theater
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 316th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it11 named
Matthew Duda
Edward Earle
Nancy Franklin
Patrick Jude
Loida Santos
6 of these 11 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
- Louis W. Scheeder
- Choreographer
- Virginia Freeman
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
Charlie and Algernon is a musical with a book and lyrics by David Rogers and music by Charles Strouse. It is based on the 1966 novel Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. It received its premiere on December 21, 1978, at The Citadel Theater, in Edmonton, Canada.
Charlie and Algernon September 14, 1980 More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1108
- Charlie and Algernon, 507 Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 625
- CHARLIE AND ALGERNON, originally hearts ( in ¢ ar sds : London) as Flowers Sor Al non More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 180
- CHICAGO dubbed Charlie and Algernon—was remounted that fall at the Kennedy Center’s larger Eisenhower Theatre and despite its obvious mediocrity brought in to Broadway. All that for universal jeers and a measly seventeen performances. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 184
- the adult Charlie is mentally retarded and despite his temporarily soaring IQ we know he’ll revert to his childlike self, and so his affair with Alice was similarly off-putting and distasteful and seemed unethical if not illegal on her part. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 247
- Charlie and Algernon, 299 Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 572
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 Charlie and Algernon at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.