The run closed May 14, 1989
- Opened
- March 8, 1966
- Closed
- May 14, 1989
- Performances
- 0
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Locust Theatre
No performance count on this record. 2,834 of 13,459 productions are missing one, so a blank here means unrecorded, not a short run.
Who was in it19 named
Emily Zacharias
Mark Zeller
Irving Burton
Timm Fujii
Simone Gee
Zoie Lam
Alvin Lum
Jason Ma
Kenji Nakao
Paul Nakauchi
Chev Rodgers
Keelee Seetoo
Hechter Ubarry
Nephi Jay Wimmer
Kevin Gray
4 of these 19 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 15 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
- Albert Marre
- Orchestrations
- Michael Gibson
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
Chu Chem is a musical with a book by Ted Allen, lyrics by Jim Haines and Jack Wohl, and music by Mitch Leigh.
- a revival of the musical Chu Chem (1989). At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 152
- LEIGH, MITCH (BORN IRWIN MICHNICK, 1928– ). A composition student of Paul Hindemith at Yale and a jazz musician, Leigh won a Tony Award for his most successful Broadway score, Man of La Mancha (1965). He also wrote the less-successful musicals Cry for Us All (1970), Saravà (1979), Chu Chem (1989), and Ain’t Broadway Gr… Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 226
- Afterlife: Having followed Man of La Mancha (1965) with seven—count ’em—consecutive flops, Mitch Leigh finally brought Chu Chem to Broadway's Ritz Theatre (now the Walter Kerr). Surprisingly enough, it failed. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1033
- Perhaps no show ever had a weirder initial idea and story than Chu Chem, which opened and closed in Philadelphia in November 1966. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 36
- What is most unusual about Chu Chem, however, is that it came back. In 1988, Allan and Leigh decided to take another look at the show, and they were able to get Marre back to direct the show at the tiny Jewish Repertory Theatre on East Fourteenth Street. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 37
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 Chu Chem at all.
- No performance count.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.