The run closed December 15, 1991
- Opened
- December 8, 1991
- Closed
- December 15, 1991
- Performances
- 9
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Marquis Theatre
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 332nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it19 named
Christine Baranski
Jeff Brooks
Tim Connell
John Jellison
Michael Lombard
Kathy Morath
Kip Niven
Kris Phillips
Remak Ramsay
Riley
Hal Robinson
Kristen Wilson
7 of these 19 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 12 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
- Arthur Laurents
- Choreographer
- Tina Paul
- Orchestrations
- Jonathan Tunick
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
Nick & Nora is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr., and music by Charles Strouse. The plot involves witty and urbane high society couple Nick and Nora Charles, characters created by Dashiell Hammett in his novel The Thin Man, which inspired six films, a radio show, and a television series. In this version, the two are attempting to solve the murder of a bookkeeper on a film production in Hollywood. Crucially, the musical departs from the formula of previous incarnations, defined by the chemistry between Nick and Nora, by creating a subplot of marital woes and tensions between them. The show had a brief run of nine performances on Broadway in 1991, and was…
But the producers didn’t get the money from that room that day, and spent the next year searching and scrounging for it. Broadway Musicals the Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of Filichia Peter New Yor, p. 204
- He directed I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1962), Anyone Can Whistle, Gypsy, The Madwoman of Central Park West, La Cage aux Folles (1983), and Nick & Nora, and won a Tony for La Cage aux Folles. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 224
- NICK & NORA [December 8, 1991], and ANNIE WARBUCKS [August 9, 1993]}—lighting the lights of Broadway for a total of only nineteen performances combined. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 332
- 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
- In 1994, she married actor Chris Sarandon, whom she met during the brief run of the ill-fated Broadway musical Nick & Nora (1986), in which she played Nora Charles. The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 307
- The Hellinger Theatre never came back on the market. In 1991, after backing yet another flop, Nick & Nora, Nederlander sold the theater to the Times Square Church for $17 million. Razzle Dazzle the Battle For Broadway Michael Riedel 2015 Simon Schuster Limited, p. 395
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 Nick & Nora at all.
- No show page for Nick & Nora. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.