The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- April 28, 2016
- Closed
- —
- Performances
- 100
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Music Box Theatre
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 208th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.
Who was in it18 named
Kendrick Jones
J C Montgomery
Erin N Moore
Arbender Robinson
Christian Dante White
Felicia Boswell
12 of these 18 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 6 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
Audra McDonald Lottie Gee
Brian Stokes Mitchell F. E. Miller
Billy Porter Aubrey Lyles
Brandon Victor Dixon Eubie Blake
Joshua Henry Noble Sissle
Brooks Ashmanskas Al, Izzy, Mr. Broadway, Carlo
Adrienne Warren Gertrude Saunders, Florence Mills
Amber Iman Mattie Wilkes, Madame-Madame, Eva
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
- George C. Wolfe
- Choreographer
- Savion Glover
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
Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed is a musical with a score by Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle and a libretto by George C. Wolfe, based on the original book of the 1921 musical revue Shuffle Along, by Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles. The story focuses on the challenges of mounting the original production of Shuffle Along and its effect on Broadway and race relations. The musical played on Broadway in 2016 and starred Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Brandon Victor Dixon and Billy Porter. The initial critical response was mostly positive, with special praise from many critics for McDonald's performance. The production was nominated for te…
- Shuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed seemed poised to become one of the hits of the 2015–2016 theatre season, but it floundered after 100 performances and lost a small fortune. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 265
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 Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed at all.
- When it closed.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.