The run closed June 14, 2015
- Opened
- 2015
- Closed
- June 14, 2015
- Performances
- 39
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- —
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 363rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Visit 4 more that season
| 1958 | Lunt Fontanne Theatre Original · Peter Brook | 189 perf. |
| 1973 | Ethel Barrymore Theatre Revival · Harold Prince | 32 perf. |
| 1992 | Criterion Center Stage Right Revival · Edwin Sherin | 45 perf. |
| 2011 | Ambassador Theatre Revival · Carl Andress | 1 perf. |
Who was in it14 named
Matthew Deming
Diana Dimarzio
Rick Holmes
Tom Nelis
Chris Newcomer
Aaron Ramey
Timothy Shew
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
- John Doyle, John
- Choreographer
- Graciela Daniele
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 |
Around this production
The Visit is a musical with a book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander. Based on Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 1956 satirical play about greed and revenge Der Besuch der alten Dame, it focuses on the world's wealthiest woman, Claire Zachanassian, who returns to her financially depressed hometown and offers its residents a new lease on life in exchange for the murder of Anton Schell, the man who abandoned her years ago.
appropriately, on May 5, 1958, the Lunts opened their new house with one of their best plays, The Visit, a stark, harrowing drama of revenge by Friedrich Duerrenmatt. Tickets were printed in gold for the gala opening night, and the celebrity-studded audience gave the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre and the Lunts a clamorous welcome. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 57
- 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
- Two examples are The Scottsboro Boys (2010; forty-nine performances) and The Visit (2015; sixty-one performances), both of which played at the intimate Lyceum Theatre. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 307
- Tony nominations: Best Direction of a Play, The Visit, 1959, Best Direction of a Musical, Irma La Douce, 1961. The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre 1943 1965 Naden Corinne J Rowman Litt, p. 178
- LUNT-FONTANNE (205 W. 46th St., opened 1910 as the Globe, seats 1,489). The Globe opened in 1910 for the musicals of Charles Dillingham, with a performance of The Old Town (January 10, 1910), starring Fred Stone, Dave Montgomery, and Peggy Wood. Dillington went into bankruptcy in 1933, and the Globe became a movie hous… The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre 1943 1965 Naden Corinne J Rowman Litt, p. 205
- In 2014, Doyle directed Kander and Ebb’s musical version of Durenmatt’s The Visit with Chita Rivera at the Williamstown Theatre Festival; it moved to Broadway in 2015, where it earned a Tony Award nomination as Best Musical; The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 198
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 Visit at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.