The run closed January 24, 2015
- Opened
- October 26, 2014
- Closed
- January 24, 2015
- Performances
- 105
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Neil Simon Theatre
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 190th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it20 named
Sally Ann Triplett
Dawn Cantwell
David Michael Garry
Timothy Gulan
Shawna M Hamic
Rich Hebert
Leah Hocking
Todd A Horman
Jamie Jackson
Matthew Stocke
Jeremy Woodard
9 of these 20 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.
Characters19 roles recorded
Michael Esper Gideon Fletcher
Jimmy Nail Jackie White
Sally Ann Triplett Peggy White
Rachel Tucker Meg Dawson
Jamie Jackson Joe Fletcher
Collin Kelly-Sordelet Tom Dawson & Young Gideon
Dawn Cantwell Young Meg
Craig Bennett Billy Thompson
Matthew Stocke Davey Harrison
Eric Anderson Freddy Newlands
Rich Hebert Adrian Sanderson
Shawna M. Hamic Beatrice Dees
colspan='2' "text-align: center; Ellen Dawson
colspan='2' "text-align: center; Baroness Tynedale
Fred Applegate Father James O'Brien
Aaron Lazar Arthur Millburn
Leah Hocking Jessie Flynn
Drew McVety Sailor
colspan='5' "text-align: center; Ferryman
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
- Joe Mantello, Joe Mantell
- Choreographer
- Steven Hoggett
- Orchestrations
- Rob Mathes
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 Last Ship is an original musical with music and lyrics by Sting and a book by Lorne Campbell. Inspired by Sting's own childhood experiences and the shipbuilding industry in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, the musical with book by John Logan and Brian Yorkey played at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago, before moving to the Neil Simon Theatre on Broadway in 2014. The musical received two Tony Award nominations in 2015, for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations. The musical was later significantly revised. Following a UK national tour and subsequent six-week run at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, it embarked on a US national tour with the official opening at the Ahmanson Theat…
- The Scottsboro Boys (2010), Follies (the 2011 Broadway revival), The Last Ship (2014), and The Visit (2015) quickly closed, and the critically acclaimed Grey Gardens (2006) could manage no more than nine months of performances. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 13
- Sadly, few serious musicals for adults were successful, and so A Catered Affair (2008), The Scottsboro Boys (2010), The Last Ship (2014), and The Visit (2015) quickly floundered; others such as Passion and Grey Gardens (2006) ran for only a few months The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 172
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 recording is held for The Last Ship at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.