The run closed January 19, 1992
- Opened
- December 11, 1989
- Closed
- January 19, 1992
- Performances
- 878
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- August Wilson Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 16th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it47 named
James Cahill
Peter Davis
Shawn Elliott
Tom Galantich
Gary Kahn
Amy Jane London
Alvin Lum
Keith Perry
Jackie Presti
Evan Thompson
Doug Tompos
Raymond Xifo
Alison Bevan
Donna Bullock
Karen Fineman
Dan Foster
Adam Grupper
Richard Kline
Beverly Leech
Charles Levin
Marguerite Macintyre
George Taylor
Susan Terry
Linda Thorson
Andy Umberger
Sal Viviano
Bob Walton
Elizabeth Ward
Steven Weisbart
Christopher Wynkoop
17 of these 47 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 30 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
- Michael Blakemore
- Choreographer
- musical numbers staged by Walter Painter, Walter Painter
- Producer
- Nick Vanoff, Roger Berlind, Jujamcyn Theaters, Suntory International Corp., The Shubert Organization
- Orchestrations
- Billy Byers
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 |
Recordings 3 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against City of Angels, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
City of Angels (Virginia, “Mallory Kingsley,” Dec. 11, 1989): Lost and Found/W: David Zippel, M: Cy Coleman.
Speaker not recorded. Who Sang What On Broadway 1866 1996 Volume 2 the Singers Ruth Benjamin and Arthu, p. 349- A new production of the hit musical Shenandoah failed to run as long as the original, but it was followed by the successful musical City of Angels, which won six Tony Awards: Best Musical, Best Score (Cy Coleman, David Zippel), Best Book (Larry Gelbart), Best Actor in a Musical (James At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 220
- City of Angels ran 878 performances here from 1989 to 1992, setting a new house record. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 221
- Shows that have opened cold include City of Angels. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 230
- HE MUSICAL 1776 BELONGS TO that rare breed of show in which the libretto is stronger than the score. This isn't to say that 1776 has a bad score, but the libretto could conceivably stand alone, without Sherman Edwards’s contributions. There are a few other shows, very few, in which the librettos stand out as the premie… Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 290
- By the later 1990s, Prince had received more Tony Awards, twen... (incomplete but relevant) Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 406
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.
- Which of the 3 recordings of City of Angels document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.