The run closed January 2, 2000
- Opened
- November 9, 1997
- Closed
- January 2, 2000
- Performances
- 772
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Minskoff Theatre
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 30th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it68 named
David Cromwell
Ken Labey
Eric Bennyhoff
Jeff Garner
James Dybas
Stephanie Bast
Nick Cavarra
Gilles Chiasson
Sutton Foster
Jeff Gardner
Melissa Hart
Lauri Landry
Don Mayo
Kevyn Morrow
Craig Rubano
Elizabeth Ward
Charles West
Rex Smith
Rachel York
James Bohanek
Darrin Baker
Harvey Evans
Russell Garrett
Michael Halling
Michael Hance
Timothy Eric Hart
Stephen Hope
Ken Land
John Lathan
T Doyle Leverett
Mark Mcgrath
Jessica Phillips
Cynthia Sophiea
Douglas Storm
Tom Zemon
Ron Bohmer
Carolee Carmello
Marc Kudisch
Kirk Mcdonald
Danny Gurwin
James Hindman
Emily Hsu
Alicia Irving
David Masenheimer
Elizabeth O Neill
Laura Schutter
Matthew Shepard
Stephonne Smith
David St Louis
Debra Wiseman
32 of these 68 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 36 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.
Characters5 roles recorded
Ron Bohmer Percy
Carolee Carmello Marguerite
Marc Kudisch Chauvelin
Kirk McDonald Armand St. Just
Billy Sharpe Robespierre / Prince of Wales
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
- Peter Hunt
- Choreographer
- Adam Pelty
- Producer
- Pierre Cossette, Bill Haber, Hallmark Entertainment, Ted Forstmann, Kathleen Raitt
- Orchestrations
- Kim S
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 |
Recordings 3 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against The Scarlet Pimpernel, 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 Scarlet Pimpernel opened at the Minskoff Theater on November 9, 1997; shut down October 1, 1998; had an eight-day layoff; then reworked, restaged, recast, and reopened November 4, 1998; closed in April 1999; toured for the summer and opened again September 9, 1999; and finally closed January 2, 2000. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 299
- The last show at the Neil Simon Theatre before the celebration of the millennium was The Scarlet Pimpernel, nicknamed Version 3.0 because it was the third version of this musical by Frank Wildhorn and Nan Knighton. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 296
- The Scarlet Pimpernel, a spectacular production with music by Frank Wildhorn and book and lyrics by Nan Knighton, opened on November 9, 1997. Unfortunately, the musical received mostly negative reviews, with most critics branding it boring. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 351
- Another long-running failure came to the Minskoff, The Scarlet Pimpernel (11/9/97; 772 performances), with music by Frank Wildhorn and book and lyrics by Nan Knighton. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 377
- In a twist reminiscent of The Scarlet Pimpernel and Naughty Marietta, the true identity of the Red Shadow is Pierre, the supposedly milquetoast son of the governor of Morocco, General Birabeau. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 85
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 3 recordings of The Scarlet Pimpernel document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.