The run closed December 17, 2006
- Opened
- December 7, 2006
- Closed
- December 17, 2006
- Performances
- 13
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 353rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it15 named
Justin Brill
Andrew C Call
Matt Caplan
Caren Lyn Manuel
Rachel Stern
Emily Swallow
Jon Patrick Walker
Anne Warren
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
- Walter Bobbie
- Choreographer
- Dan Knechtges
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
High Fidelity is a musical with music by Tom Kitt, lyrics by Amanda Green, and a book by David Lindsay-Abaire. Based primarily on the 1995 Nick Hornby novel of the same name, the plot focuses on Rob Gordon, a Brooklyn record shop owner in his thirties obsessed with making top five lists for everything, always observing rather than participating in life. When his girlfriend Laura leaves him, he goes through a painful re-evaluation of his life and lost loves (with a little help from his music) and he slowly learns that he has to grow up and let go of his self-centered view of the world before he can find real happiness. Premiering in Boston in 2006, the musical eventually moved to Broadway, op…
December 5, 2006—Walter Bobbie directs High Fidelity, a musical based on the film and novel of the same title, about the owner of an esoteric record shop and how he decides which of his Top Five loves will be his Number One. Will Chase and Jenn Colella star in David Lindsay-Abaire's show with an eclectic pop score by Tom Kitt and Amanda Green. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook Third Annual Edition Viagas Robert 3rd Annual Ed , p. 11
- Between 2001 and 2014 the majority of new musicals were based on successful movies; these include: ... High Fidelity, Xanadu, Young Frankenstein, The Little Mermaid, Cry Baby, Billy Elliot: The Musical, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Shrek, 9 to 5, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Once, Newsies: The Musical… A History of the American Musical Theatre No Business Like Nathaniel Hurwitz Tay, p. 287
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 High Fidelity at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.