The run closed January 7, 2007
- Opened
- August 17, 2006
- Closed
- January 7, 2007
- Performances
- 165
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 106th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it7 named
Nicole Parker
Donna Vivino
5 of these 7 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 2 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
- Scott Wittman
- Choreographer
- Christopher Gattelli
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
The show was a unique Broadway hybrid — part concert, part sketch comedy, part musical. Marc Shaiman (Hairspray) played piano onstage and wrote original songs. Short changed and updated the show throughout its run, keeping it fresh for repeat audiences.
Memorable Opening Night Note: A note from an 87-year-old Austrian actress I know who is a Holocaust survivor, which said “Toi toi toi, the best is yet to come!” Also, it wasn't on opening night, but a friend who had just been asked for a divorce by her husband sent me flowers with a note that said “Fame becomes you. Divorce becomes me.” The Playbill Broadway Yearbook Third Annual Edition Viagas Robert 3rd Annual Ed , p. 287
- Hairspray songwriters Shaiman and Wittman later wrote a song about it: “A Big Black Lady Stops the Show” in Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me (2006).47 Broadway Bodies Ryan Donovan 2023, p. 114
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 Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.