The run closed October 19, 1986
- Opened
- October 16, 1986
- Closed
- October 19, 1986
- Performances
- 5
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Nederlander Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 399th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it20 named
Joel Aroeste
Elizabeth Austin
Joe Barrett
Gail Benedict
Melinda Buckley
Gregory Butler
Anny de Gange
Dick Decareau
Michaela Hughes
Carolyn Marble
Bob Morrisey
Richard Ryder
Michelan Sisti
Gordon Weiss
Andrea Wright
5 of these 20 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 15 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.
Characters8 roles recorded
Neal Ben-Ari, Joe Barrett, Gary O. Aldrich Doctors
Gibby Brand Poppa
Lisa Rieffel Marcella
Michelan Sisti Panda
David Schramm General D.
Gail Kathleen Benedict Bat
Gordon Joseph Weiss Wolf
David Bunce, Laura Carusone, Scott Alan Evans, Nina Hennessey, Michaela Hughes, John Thomas McGuire III, Betsy Normile The Company
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
- Patricia Birch
- Choreographer
- Patricia Birch
- Orchestrations
- Stan Applebaum
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 musical had a book by William Gibson, the playwright who had rewritten the book for Golden Boy, and a score by Joseph Raposo, best known for his "Sesame Street" songs.
- STEPPING STONES contained an especially infectious rag, Raggedy Ann. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 54
- One of the most bizarre musicals ever to reach Broadway, Raggedy Ann (Nederlander; Oct. 16, ’86; 5) was based on stories written by John Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 213
- Raggedy Ann was a perverse curiosity suitable neither for adults nor children. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 215
- Raggedy Ann, book by William Gibson, music and lyrics by Joe Raposo; Ever After the Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond Barry Singer, p. 255
- Other than Grease 2 and her 1986 Broadway flop Raggedy Ann, Birch has pretty much stayed away from the director’s chair. Today In History Musicals Today In History Stollenwerk Joe 1973 Today In History, p. 176
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 Raggedy Ann at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.