The run closed June 13, 1999
- Opened
- April 22, 1999
- Closed
- June 13, 1999
- Performances
- 61
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- St. James Theatre
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 187th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it14 named
Michel Bell
Gilles Chiasson
Lawrence Clayton
Mike Eldred
Hope Harris
David M Lutken
Wayne W Pretlow
7 of these 14 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 7 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
- Luis Perez
- Orchestrations
- Kim Scharnberg
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 0 nominations
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
The Civil War is a musical written by Gregory Boyd and Frank Wildhorn, with lyrics by Jack Murphy and music by Wildhorn. The musical centers on the American Civil War, with the musical numbers portraying the war through Union, Confederate, and slave viewpoints. The musical was nominated for two Tony Awards, including the Tony Award for Best Musical. Its styles include gospel, folk, country, rock, and rhythm and blues.
On April 22, 1999, The Civil War opened at the newly restored St. James. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 283
“Why are we here at the St. James Theater?” asked Ben Brantley in his New York Times review on April 23, 1999.
Speaker not recorded. Ever After the Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond Singer Barry 1957 New Yo, p. 317- Unfortunately although his first two musicals ran a long time, The Civil War received adverse reviews and lasted only 61 performances. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 284
- Miss Saigon, Thou Shalt Not, Marie Christine, Jane Eyre, Parade, Jelly’s Last Jam, The Civil War. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 99
- Another pop song composer who has had success on Broadway is Frank Wildhorn, who had three musicals running simultaneously on Broadway in 1999 – Jekyll and Hyde (1997), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1997) and The Civil War (1999). Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 379
- Alley Theatre artistic director, Gregory Boyd, and Wildhorn wrote The Civil War, which also began as a concept recording, followed by a première at the Alley Theatre. A History of the American Musical Theatre No Business Like Nathaniel Hurwitz Tay, p. 272
- In addition to those shows Broadway also saw Frank Wildhorn’s Civil War, Footloose (based on the 1984 movie), and the revue It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues. A History of the American Musical Theatre No Business Like Nathaniel Hurwitz Tay, p. 279
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 Civil War at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.