The run closed July 2, 2000
- Opened
- October 22, 1998
- Closed
- July 2, 2000
- Performances
- 709
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Richard Rodgers Theatre
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 35th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Footloose 1 more that season
| 1920 | Greenwich Village Theatre Original · O. P. Heggie | 32 perf. |
Who was in it45 named
John Deyle
Artie Harris
Hunter Foster
Paul
Paul Castree
Sean Haythe
Mary Gordon Murray
Darrin Baker
Christian Borle
Luther Creek
Teri Digianfelice
Sean Dooley
Asmeret Ghebremichael
Casey Miles Good
Katie Harvey
Curtis Holbrook
Michelle Kittrell
Bradley Jay Madison
Kathleen Marsh
Matthew Morrison
Tanya Nieves
Carolyn Ockert Haythe
Timothy Quinlan
Teresa Marie Sanchez
Michael Seelbach
Karl Wahl
Jason Wooten
26 of these 45 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 19 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.
Characters14 roles recorded
Joe Machota Ren McCormack
Niki Scalera Ariel Moore
Joe Machota Rev. Shaw Moore
Mary Gordon Murray Vi Moore
Christian Borle Willard Hewitt
Stephanie St. James Kara "Rusty" Pizzolo
Marsha Waterbury Ethel McCormack
Richard H. Blake Chuck Cranston
Andrea McCormick Urleen
Katie Harvey Wendy Jo
David Patrick Ford Lyle
Andrew A. Knight Travis
Tina Johnson Lulu Warnicker
Steve Luker Wes Warnicker
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Walter Bobbie
- Choreographer
- A.C.Ciulla
- Producer
- Dodger Endemol Theatricals
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
Footloose, a musical based on a popular film of the same name, arrived on October 22, 1998, and enjoyed a long run, despite several negative reviews. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 205
- Footloose (10/22/98; 709 performances) was next. Based on the film of the same name, Footloose enjoyed an extended run due to creative producing and press agentry, but nevertheless it closed after losing millions for its investors. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 456
- Among Ross’s other well received films were Pennies from Heaven (1981, featuring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters), I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982, from Simon’s play), Footloose (1984), and Steel Magnolias (1989), a major hit starring Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, and a young Julia Roberts. The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 707
- Footloose 708 performances Opened October 22, 1998 Closed July 2, 2000 Theatre World 2011 12 Season V 68 Willis, p. 459
- adding his theatrical sensibilities to such films as The Turning Point, Pennies from Heaven, and Footloose. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 166
- In 1998, Footloose , an adaptation of the 1984 motion picture of the same name, began a nearly two-year run Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 324
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 recording is held for Footloose at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.