The run closed June 27, 1982
- Opened
- March 27, 1978
- Closed
- June 27, 1982
- Performances
- 1,774
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadhurst Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 10th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it70 named
Gail Benedict
Karen G Burke
Jill Cook
Gregory B Drotar
Linda Haberman
Blane Savage
William Whitener
Eileen Casey
Kirsten Childs
Bruce Anthony Davis
Cliff de Raita
James Dunne
Wendy Edmead
Janet Eilber
Gail Mae Ferguson
Gary Flannery
James Horvath
Robert la Fosse
Eugene Little
P J Mann
Ross Miles
Valerie Jean Miller
Stephen Moore
Bryan Nicholas
Deborah Phelan
Zelda Pulliam
Alyson Reed
Shanna Reed
Michael Ricardo
Terri Treas
Robert Warners
Barbara Yeager
Lydia Abarca
Ciscoe Bruton Ii
Lloyd Culbreath
John DeLuca
Lisa Embs
Penny Fekany
Spence Ford
Laurent Giroux
Bill Hastings
Keith Keen
Edmund la Fosse
Jodi Moccia
Maryann Neu
Bebe Neuwirth
Cynthia Onrubia
Gayle Samuels
Alison Sherve
Beth Shorter
Laurie Dawn Skinner
David Thome
22 of these 70 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 48 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
- Bob Fosse
- Choreographer
- Bob Fosse
- Producer
- Jules Fisher, Shubert Organization, Columbia Pictures
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 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
an cl received unofficial creui t of another kind in an opening-night telegram from Alan Jay Lerner: "You finally did it. You got rid of the author." Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 621
- To be sure, Dancin' proved a dead-end as far as the book musical was concerned. Yet that limitation proved no obstacle to its commercial success-or to the later success of shows by others similarly made of virtually nothing but dance: Stomp (1994, choreography: Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas ), Bring in 'Da Noise/… Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 624
- Dancin’ ultimately ran more than four years, tallying 1,774 performances. Next to Pippin, it was Fosse’s longest-running show, as well as his most successful touring property. Big Deal Bob Fosse and Dance In the American Musical Kevin Winkler Oxford Univer, p. 251
- Verdon, Reinking, and Fosse collaborated again on the hit Broadway revue Dancin'. I M the Greatest Star Broadway S Top Musical Legends From 1900 To Today Robert V, p. 262
- When Fosse returned to Broadway later in the 1970s, it was with a show titled Dancin ’ that although calling itself a musical was really a dance pro-gram. It contained almost no dialogue and relatively little singing, was three acts of pure Fosse-style Broadway show dancing. Broadway the Golden Years Jerome Robbins and the Great Long Robert Emmet New Yor, p. 183
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 Dancin' at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.