The run closed July 6, 1997
- Opened
- April 3, 1997
- Closed
- July 6, 1997
- Performances
- 109
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 134th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it15 named
Todd Bailey
Angelo Fraboni
Amy Heggins
Jennifer Lamberts
Charles Mcgowan
Susan Misner
Darcie Roberts
Timothy Edward Smith
7 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 8 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
- Wayne Cilento
- Choreographer
- Wayne Cilento
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
Dream is a musical revue based on the songs of Johnny Mercer. The book is by Jack Wrangler and co-producer Louise Westergaard. The show ran on Broadway in 1997.
- Among the most popular of these were Oscar Straus’s A Waltz Dream, Leo Fall’s The Dollar Princess, Straus’s The Chocolate Soldier, Heinrich Reinhardt’s The Spring Maid, Johann Strauss’s The Merry Countess (Die Fiedermaus), Lehar’s The Count of Luxembourg, Emmerich Kalman’s Sari, and Edmund Eysler’s The Blue Paradise (w… Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 39
- The opening production on October 26, 1903 was an appropriately lavish staging of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream featuring music by Mendelssohn and star turns by popular performers of that day, Nat C. Goodwin and William Farnum. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 25
- In 1903 the New Amsterdam had opened with a live production of A Midsummer Nights Dream. Its first film was Max Reinhardts movie of the Shakespeare comedy. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 34
- Next came Victor Herbert's last show, The Dream Girl (1924), a fantasy that involved Fay Bainter and Wilter Woolf in one of those "dream" plots which takes them back to the fifteenth century. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 143
- In 1971, the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of A Midsummer Nights Dream, directed by Peter Brook, provided great fun; At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 161
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 Dream at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.