The run closed December 31, 1978
- Opened
- May 28, 1974
- Closed
- December 31, 1978
- Performances
- 1,920
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- James Earl Jones Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 7th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it36 named
Cheryl Barnes
Annie Mcgreevey
Loyd Sannes
Sam Schacht
Ronald Stafford
Louisa Flaningam
Kenneth Kimmins
Natalie Mosco
Dara Norman
Stephen Vinovich
Ramona Brooks
Robert Brubach
Cindy Cobitt
Gwendolyn Coleman
Clifford Lipson
Christopher Lucas
Kevin Marcum
Eddie Mekka
Lisa Raggio
Bubba Rambo
T Michael Reed
Rita Rudner
Lynne Thigpen
Timothy Wahrer
Frederick Wessler
Valerie Williams
10 of these 36 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 26 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.
Characters10 roles recorded
Cheryl Barnes Dina
Doug Henning Doug
Robert LuPone Manny
Annie McGreevey Donna
Anita Morris Charmin
Lloyd Sannes Steve
Sam Schacht Goldfarb
Dale Soules Cal
Ronald Stafford Mike
David Ogden Stiers Feldman
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
- Grover Dale
- Choreographer
- Grover Dale
- Producer
- Edgar Lansbury, Joseph Beruh, Ivan Reitman
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.
Recordings 1 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against The Magic Show, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
The Cort reopened to live theater with the musical The Magic Show (5/28/74; 1,920 performances). The chief draw of the show was magician Doug Henning. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 140
- The fifth longest running Broadway musical of the 1970s, The Magic Show was Stephen Schwartz’s third in a row — the others were Godspell and Pippin — to play over 1,900 performances. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 264
- Stephen Schwartz made a welcome return to the theatre with Wicked, his first hit Broadway show since 1974s The Magic Show, and Charles Strouse hasn’t had a hit since Annie in 1977. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 178
- Schwartz’s score for The Magic Show (1974) was overshadowed by Doug Henning’s magic, but, like Pippin, the show ran for more than four years. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 346
- Schwartz went on, if that is how it must be described, to do the songs for Pippin [1972] and The Magic Show [1974], both of which are still running. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 357
- Stephen Schwartz followed Godspell with the hits Pippin and The Magic Show; More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 359
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.
- Which of the 1 recordings of The Magic Show document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.