The run closed January 3, 1987
- Opened
- November 24, 1986
- Closed
- January 3, 1987
- Performances
- 48
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 230th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it27 named
Mana Allen
Andrew Cassese
Tommy Daggett
Donna Marie Elio
Laura Gardner
Lauren Goler
Valerie Lau Kee
Andrea Leigh Smith
Mia Malm
Cindy Oakes
Michael O Gorman
Tia Riebling
Cheryl Ann Rossi
Julie Tussey
Renee Veneziale
Marsha Waterbury
Deanna D Wells
Jeffrey Wilkins
K C Wilson
Richard Woods
7 of these 27 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 20 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
- Howard Ashman
- Choreographer
- Mary Kyte
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
But the critics, with a few exceptions, did not buy Smile—several pointed out the show's similarity to Hamlisch's biggest hit, A Chorus Line—and it was unable to survive for more than six weeks.
Stuart Duncan presented the revised Smile, Smile, Smile, with Hugo & Luigi and George Weiss providing book as well as score, on April 4, 1974, at the Off-Broadway Eastside Playhouse for a scant seven performances. More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 1035
- There were also some new musicals — Uptown... It's Hot, Smile and The Gospel at Colonus; At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 58
- Afterlife: Stuart Duncan presented the revised Smzle, Smile, Smile, with Hugo & Luigi and George Weiss providing book as well as score, on April 4, 1974, at the Off-Broadway Eastside Playhouse for a scant seven performances. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1036
- SMILE was pretty much a mess, with Hamlisch’s efforts having little to offer besides a pleasantly jingly title tune. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 389
- Ashman died (with only one Broadway show to his credit, the mirthless SMILE [Hamlisch: November 24, 1986]). Tim Rice, of EVITAT [September 25, 1979], stepped in to finish the Aladdin lyrics. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 393
- Today, The Provincetown Follies would be classified as an Off-Broadway show, but during the era many downtown productions were included as part of the Broadway season, and for the 1935–1936 Best Plays annual, the show was listed along with Smile at Me, At Home Abroad, and other revues of the season. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 411
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 Smile at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.