The run closed January 14, 2001
- Opened
- December 9, 1999
- Closed
- January 14, 2001
- Performances
- 461
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- St. James Theatre
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 51st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it27 named
Laureen Baldovi
Kristine Bendul
Carol Bentley
Caitlin Carter
Geralyn del Corso
Desiree Duarte
Beverly Durand
Erin East
Kevin Michael Gaudin
Edgar Godineaux
Aldrin Gonzalez
Michael Gruber
Keith Lamelle Thomas
J C Montgomery
Arte Phillips
Robert Royston
Carlos Sierra Lopez
Jenny Thomas
Maria Torres
Quinn M Bass
Sarah Jane Nelson
Jennifer Shrader
Dana Solimando
4 of these 27 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 23 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
- Jerry Zaks
- Choreographer
- Jerry Mitchell, Kathleen Marshall, Eddie Torres, Ryan Francois
- Orchestrations
- Harold Wheeler, Yaron Gershovsky, Ian Herman, Casey MacGill, Michael Rafter, Jeanine Tesori, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Benny Goodman, James R. Mundy, Charles Christian, B. Plater, T. Bradshaw, B. Feyhe, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James, Count Basie, Don Raye, Hughie Prince, Ilene Reid, Sid Kuller, Hoagy Carmichael, Paul Francis Webster, Earl Hagen, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Paul Kelly, Johnny Mercer, Edgar DeLange, Jerry Gray, Mack Gordon, Harry Warren, Mack David, Joan Whitney, Alex J. Kramer, Jack Murphy, Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Joe Garland, Lew Brown, Sam H. Stept, Charlie Tobias, Walter Bishop, Lewis Raymond, Clarence Williams, Juan Tizol, Arthur Hamilton, Harold Arlen, Bob Wills, Tommy Duncan, Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks, Dorothy Fields, Otto A. Harbach, Jimmy McHugh, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Bill Elliott, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb, Andy Razaf, Michael Heitzman, E. Johnson, Louis Prima, Leon Berry, Seán Martin Hingston
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 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
The show capitalized on the late-1990s swing revival and featured multiple choreographers, each bringing a different style. A young Casey Nicholaw was a cast member before becoming one of Broadway's top director-choreographers.
- Charles Isherwood in Variety found the revue “sexy and satisfying” with its “dazzling” dancers, and he was glad to note that with Tango Argentino and the upcoming Broadway openings of Swing! and Contact (which had opened Off-Broadway in the fall and would reopen later in the season for a Broadway run) the theatre seaso… The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 389
- Swing! isn’t to be confused with Alfred Uhry and Robert Waldman’s surreal 1980 musical Swing, which closed during its pre-Broadway tryout. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 402
- Dance also played heavily in the 1999–2000 season. Shows like Swing! and Riverdance (the Irish step-dancing extravaganza) were plotless, dance-driven evenings. A History of the American Musical Theatre No Business Like Nathaniel Hurwitz Tay, p. 279
- Other: Saturday Night Fever; Swing!; Squonk; Tango Argentino; Contact; Riverdance. Ever After the Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond Singer Barry 1957 New Yo, p. 336
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 Swing! at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.