The run closed August 30, 1998
- Opened
- April 27, 1998
- Closed
- August 30, 1998
- Performances
- 144
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- St. James Theatre
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 119th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of High Society 1 more that season
| 1987 | Victoria Palace Theatre Transfer |
Who was in it16 named
Barry Finkel
Daniel Gerroll
Jeff Skowron
Glenn Turner
12 of these 16 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 4 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
- Christopher Renshaw
- Choreographer
- Anna Louizos
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 Awardscategories not held
0 wins from 3 nominations. Which categories is not on this record.
Around this production
High Society is a musical comedy with a book by Arthur Kopit and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Some updated or new lyrics were provided by Susan Birkenhead. The musical is based on Philip Barry's 1939 stage comedy The Philadelphia Story and the subsequent 1956 musical film adaptation, High Society, which features Porter's songs. The musical includes most of the music featured in the movie, along with several songs selected from other Porter musicals. It premiered on Broadway in 1998 and has since been revived. An earlier musical adaptation of the story, with a book by Richard Eyre, opened in London in 1987. The plot centers on a pretentious Oyster Bay socialite who is planning to wed an e…
- The next tenant at the St. James seemed promising, but it proved a disappointment. It was a musical version of Philip Barry's classic high comedy, The Philadelphia Story, using Cole Porter songs from the film musical version of this property called High Society, the latter title being retained for this stage adaptation… At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 283
- Porter wrote two scores for the movies, High Society and Les Girls, as well as an original television musical, Aladdin. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 439
- One of the ailing Porter’s final projects was a poor 1956 film-musical-ization of Barry’s The Philadelphia Story, redubbed High Society. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 429
- Porter’s final Broadway show was this painfully assembled, unsatis-fying effort. Facing severe out-of-town troubles, librettist/director Kaufman and wife MacGrath were replaced by Burrows, who had been on GUYS AND DOLLS [Loesser: November 24, 1950] and CAN-CAN [May 7, 1953]. Feuer himself took over as director (as he w… Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 259
- the score of the 1998 Broadway production of High Society. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 106
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 Society at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.