The run closed May 13, 2001
- Opened
- April 26, 2001
- Closed
- May 13, 2001
- Performances
- 21
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Minskoff Theatre
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 343rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it26 named
Jim Poulos
Kevin Serge Durand
John Christopher Jones
Marshall Pailet
Linda Purl
Ann Whitlow Brown
Pierce Cravens
Elan
Stacia Fernandez
Joe Gallagher
Amy Jo Phillips
Mekenzie Rosen Stone
Sally Wilfert
Tommar Wilson
12 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 14 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
- Scott Ellis
- Choreographer
- David Marques
- Orchestrations
- Michael Starobin
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 Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a musical comedy based on the 1876 novel by Mark Twain conceived and written by Ken Ludwig, with music and lyrics by Don Schlitz. The musical is the story of a fourteen-year-old boy growing up in the heartland of America. This Broadway musical version of Mark Twain's novel is set in 1840 in St. Petersburg, Missouri, a bustling town on the banks of the Mississippi River. In the course of the story, Tom matches wits with his stern Aunt Polly, falls in love with the beautiful, feisty Becky Thatcher, and goes on the adventure of his life with Becky and Huckleberry Finn. Along the way he meets a terrifying villain named Injun Joe, Tom's bratty half-brother Sid, and…
- Two more flops appeared on the Minskoff stage. Saturday Night Fever (10/21/99; 501 performances) and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (4/26/2001; 21 performances) were both met with lukewarm reviews and audience apathy. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 377
- among the musicals interested in looking at boys’ lives were: Big (1996), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (2001), a 2003 revival of Big River, Tarzan (2006), Billy Elliot (2008), and Newsies (2012) The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 172
- Joshua Park (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer), Rosie Perez (References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot), Joely Richardson (Madame Melville), John Ritter (The Dinner Party), The Cast of Stones in His Pocket- Sean Campion & Conleth Hill (Special Awards) Theatre World 2011 12 Season V 68 Willis, p. 424
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer—which closed May 13, 2001—haunting Forty-fifth Street until the summer of 2002. (The Minskoff finally re-opened in October 2002 with previews of Dance of the Vampires, after seventy-four dark weeks.) Broadway Yearbook 2001 2002 A Relevant and Irreverent Steven Suskin Kindle 2003 , p. 17
- Among the ancients of Broadway's musical theater fraternity this made him a veritable child. The same went for 4o-ish Don Schlitz, a Grammy Award-winning country western cross-over composer, who helped turn Mark Twain's Toni Sawyer into The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a very bland musical that opened at the Minskoff Thea… Ever After the Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond Barry Singer, p. 182
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 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.