The run closed February 15, 2004
- Opened
- December 4, 2003
- Closed
- February 15, 2004
- Performances
- 84
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadhurst Theatre
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 204th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it23 named
Peter Gerety
Deidre Goodwin
Philip Lestrange
Deborah Leamy
Ron Orbach
David Pittu
Julio Agustin
Timothy J Alex
Roxane Barlow
Julie Connors
Sally Mae Dunn
Jennifer Frankel
Jason Gillman
Kenya Unique Massey
Ipsita Paul
T Oliver Reid
Kirby Ward
Tommar Wilson
5 of these 23 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 18 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
- Michael Greif
- Choreographer
- Jerry Mitchell
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 2 nominations. Which categories is not on this record.
Around this production
Never Gonna Dance is a Broadway musical featuring the music of Jerome Kern. The musical was based on the 1936 Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers film Swing Time. Lyricists include Oscar Hammerstein, Ira Gershwin, P. G. Wodehouse, Bernard Dougall, Johnny Mercer, Jimmy McHugh, Otto Harbach, and Dorothy Fields. It opened on Broadway in 2003.
- 'Never Gonna Dance' may well be the best torch song ever written for a man to sing. It’s a plaintive ballad expressing Astaire’s despair at what he believes is the end of his affair with Rogers. The Melody Lingers On the Great Songwriters and Their Movie Hemming Roy New York, p. 112
- Songs: “Never Gonna Dance” (lyrics, Dorothy Fields); plus songs by others. The Melody Lingers On the Great Songwriters and Their Movie Hemming Roy New York, p. 134
- Never Gonna Dance brought her another Outer Critics Circle Award and Tony nomination before she went back to work with Ellis, Loud, and Kander on Curtains. Nothing Like A Dame Conversations With the Great Women of Musical Theater Eddie , p. 321
- "Waltz in Swing Time" (Never Gonna Dance). This was definitely the right title for the song, but certainly not the right title for the show, what with Jerry Mitchell’s generous amounts of Tony-nominated choreography. The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 215
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 Never Gonna Dance at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.