The run closed January 10, 1993
- Opened
- December 10, 1992
- Closed
- January 10, 1993
- Performances
- 37
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Vivian Beaumont Theater
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 261st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it28 named
Leslie Bell
Colleen Dunn
Katie Finneran
James Gerth
Michael Gruber
Thomas Ikeda
David Lipman
Roxie Lucas
Nora Mae Lyng
Josh Mostel
Alan Muraoka
Ethan Phillips
Jay Poindexter
Russell Ricard
Lannyl Stephens
Paul Stolarsky
Mary Stout
Thomas Titone
Bruce Winant
Christina Youngman
Marcus Olson
7 of these 28 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 21 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
- Ron Lagomarsino
- Choreographer
- Thommie Walsh
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
My Favorite Year is a musical with a book by Joseph Dougherty, music by Stephen Flaherty, and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. It is based on the 1982 film of the same name.
Everybody has to go through stages like that.
As Stephen Sondheim. The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 62I’d like to thank my Armenian family for my roots and my hairdresser Gary for restoring them to their natural color.
Andrea Martin. Today In History Musicals Today In History Stollenwerk Joe 1973 Today In History, p. 64- in a season also including future Broadway musicals The Secret Garden and My Favorite Year Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 180
- MY FAVORITE YEAR was scheduled for a January 8, 1991, premiére as part of the New Musicals season, on a subscription series with KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN [1990]: [Kander: May 1, 1990]. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 410
- MY FAVORITE YEAR [December 10, 1992] gave him a chance to learn from his mistakes. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 412
- Winer said the musical was “another big lifeless imitation of a movie” that was “more slick and professional than My Favorite Year” but was still “mostly a bland, shapeless, paint-by-number replica of the movie.” The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 123
- Jeremy Gerard in Variety said The Red Shoes joined “the growing roster of recent film-to-tuner flops,” which included Nick & Nora, My Favorite Year, and The Goodbye Girl. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 162
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 My Favorite Year at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.