The run closed June 28, 1997
- Opened
- April 24, 1997
- Closed
- June 28, 1997
- Performances
- 76
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Richard Rodgers Theatre
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 165th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it24 named
Alison Bevan
Rosa Curry
Robert Fowler
Ida Gilliams
Mary Illes
John Macinnis
Elizabeth Mills
Sarah Solie Shannon
Timothy Warmen
Leigh Anne Wencker
Valerie Wright
13 of these 24 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 11 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.
Characters12 roles recorded
Karen Ziemba Rita Racine
Daniel McDonald Bill Kelly
Gregory Harrison Mick Hamilton
Ronn Carroll Mr. Walker
Debra Monk Shelby Stevens
Kristin Chenoweth Precious McGuire
Jim Newman Happy McGuire
Timothy Warmen Johnny Adel
Joel Blum Buddy Becker
Valerie Wright Bette Becker
Alison Bevan Dora Foster
John C. Havens Luke Adams
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
- Scott Ellis
- Choreographer
- Susan Stroman
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 Awards 0 from 11 nominations
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
Steel Pier is a musical written by the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb with an original book by David Thompson.
CHENOWETH, KRISTIN (1968– ). Singing actress who made her Broadway debut as Precious McGuire in Steel Pier (1997), going on to win the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Sally in the 1999 revival of You’re a Good Man, Char- lie Brown. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 103
You got your first Tony nomination for Steel Pier .
Speaker not recorded. Nothing Like A Dame Conversations With the Great Women of Musical Theater Eddie , p. 333- Another Kander/Ebb musical, Steel Pier, opened here in 1997, with a book by David Thompson, but it did not enjoy the success of Chicago. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 204
- Chicago moved to the Shubert to make way for the latest Kander and Ebb musical, Steel Pier (4/24/97; 76 performances). Unfortunately, though the musical showed promise, there was no out-of-town tryout, and the producers and director were not up to the difficult task of fixing a show in trouble. So Steel Pier became an… Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 456
- THE RINK, both versions of KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, and STEEL PIER all suffered infinitely larger losses. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 363
- The only other shows nominated for eleven awards to win none were Kander and Ebb’s Steel Pier in 1997 and the original production of Chicago in 1976. A History of the American Musical Theatre No Business Like Nathaniel Hurwitz Tay, p. 298
- Again, we got the references to other musicals—to Steel Pier ’s slow-mo first-act finale, for instance. Anything Goes A History of American Musical Theatre Ethan Mordden, p. 330
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What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Steel Pier at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.