The run closed August 5, 2012
- Opened
- October 19, 2009
- Closed
- August 5, 2012
- Performances
- 1,165
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Shubert Theatre
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 16th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it62 named
Jennifer Allen
Brad Bass
Tracee Beazer
Kevin Covert
Hillary Elk
Bryan Fenkart
Rhett G George
John Jellison
Vivian Nixon
Laquet Sharnell
Ephraim M Sykes
Cary Tedder
Danny Tidwell
Daniel J Watts
Charlie Williams
Dan Yelle Williamson
Darius Barnes
Tanya Birl
Ashley Blanchet
Carmen Shavone Borders
Angela Brydon
Sam J Cahn
Erica Dorfler
Preston W Dugger Iii
Todrick D Hall
Gregory Haney
Robert Hartwell
Tiffany Janene Howard
Lauren Lim Jackson
Bryan Langlitz
Kyle Leland
Will Mann
Kevin Massey
David Mcdonald
Paul Mcgill
Monette Mckay
Andy Mills
Justin Patterson
Ken Robinson
Bahiyah Sayyed Gaines
Jamison Scott
Antoine L Smith
Monique Smith
Betsy Struxness
Elizabeth Ward Land
Cody Williams
16 of these 62 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 46 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.
Characters7 roles recorded
Chad Kimball Huey Calhoun
Montego Glover Felicia Farrell
J. Bernard Calloway Delray
Derrick Baskin Gator
James Monroe Iglehart Bobby
Cass Morgan Mama/Gladys
Michael McGrath Mr. Simmons
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
- Christopher Ashley
- Choreographer
- Sergio Trujillo
- Producer
- Junkyard Dog Productions, Barbara and Buddy Freitag, Marleen and Kenny Alhadeff, Latitude Link, Jim and Susan Blair, Demos Bizar Entertainment, Land Line Productions, Apples and Oranges Productions, Dave Copley, Dancap Productions, Inc., Alex and Katya Lukianov, Tony Ponturo, 2 Guys Productions, and Richard Winkler; produced in association with Lauren Doll, Eric and Marsi Gardiner, Linda and Bill Potter, Broadway Across America (John Gore: CEO; Thomas B. McGrath: Chairman; Beth Williams: COO & Head of Production), Jocko Productions, Patty Baker, Dan Frishwasser, Bob Bartner/ Scott and Kaylin Union, Loraine Boyle/ Chase Mishkin, Remmel T. Dickinson/ Memphis Orpheum Group and ShadowCatcher Entertainment/ Vijay and Sita Vashee
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 Awards 1 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
Chad Kimball and the Company in Memphis (photo by Joan Marcus) Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 32
- Set in the environs of Memphis, Tennessee (instead of Memphis, Egypt) amid wartime, the story centered on the tragic, romantic triangle of the slave Aida (Elaine Malbin), her owner and rich plantation-heiress Jessica Farrow (who is the daughter of General Farrow, as in pharaoh), and Raymond (Radames) Demarest (William… Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 287
- Clay Warnick contributed a few songs to Tickets, Please! and had earlier adapted the music of various classical composers for Dream with Music (1944); and with Don Walker contributed songs for Memphis Bound (1945). In addition, he was the vocal arranger and orchestrator for a number of Broadway musicals, and was also t… The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 55
- Setting: Time: December 4, 1956. Place: Sun Records, Memphis, Tennessee. Theatre World 2011 12 Season V 68 Willis, p. 107
- 2010: Memphis; Memphis won Outstanding New Musical at the Drama Desk Awards in 2011. Theatre World 2011 12 Season V 68 Willis, p. 428
- In addition, he was the vocal arranger and orchestrator for a number of Broadway musicals, and was also the musical director for such shows as Hold It! (1948), All for Love (1949), and Donnybrook! (1961). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 55
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 Memphis at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.