The run closed September 5, 1993
- Opened
- May 1, 1991
- Closed
- September 5, 1993
- Performances
- 983
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Palace Theatre
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 15th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.
Who was in it75 named
Gregory Peck
B A
Roxane Barlow
Bonnie Brackney
Tom Brackney
Gregory Scott Carter
Cocoa
Ganine Derleth
Rebecca Downing
Colleen Dunn
Sally Mae Dunn
John Ganun
Toni Georgiana
Gigi
Eileen Grace
Luba Gregus
Tonia Lynn
Tammy Minoff
Lance Robinson
Rusty
Trixie
Amiee Turner
Jillana Urbina
Wendy Waring
Christina Youngman
Zee
Susan Anton
Marla Maples
Lisa Niemi
Amy Braverman
Laurel Lynn Collins
Kristi Cooke
Mac Davis
Heather Douglas
Brandon Espinoza
Larry Gatlin
Ganine Giorgione
Amy Heggins
Kimberly Hester
Honey
Dana Leigh Jackson
Jeanne Jones
Robert Mann Kayser
Ron Kidd
Jennifer Krater
Luann Leonard
David M Lutken
Lynne Michele
Tara T Murphy
Nancy Ringham
Carol Denise Smith
Jeffrey Stern
Kathy Trageser
Susan Trainor
A J Vincent
Candace N Walters
James Zimmermann
18 of these 75 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 57 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
Keith Carradine Will Rogers
Dee Hoty Betty Blake-Rogers
Dick Latessa Clem Rogers
Cady Huffman Ziegfeld's Favorite
Vince Bruce Unicyclist/Roper
Paul Ukena Jr. Wiley Post
Tammy Minoff Mary Rogers
Gregory Scott Carter Freddy Rogers
Lance Robinson Jimmy Rogers
Rick Faugno Will Rogers Jr.
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
- Tommy Tune
- Choreographer
- Tommy Tune
- Producer
- Pierre Cossette, Martin Richards, Sam Crothers, James M. Nederlander, Stewart F. Lane, Max Weitzenhoffer in association with Japan Satellite Broadcasting, Inc.
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 1 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Won |
Recordings 1 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against The Will Rogers Follies, 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
- By the later 1990s, Prince had received more Tony Awards, twen... (incomplete but relevant) Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 406
- 1991 1 May: The Will Rogers Follies, with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Comden and Green, and staging by Tommy Tune, premieres at the Palace Theater for a run of 981 performances. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 31
- The Will Rogers Follies finally managed to trump Raisin with 983 showings—that’s two years, three months—although subsidiary rights might eventually push it into the black. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 37
- Never Met a Man I Didn’t Like” (The Will Rogers Follies, 1991; lyric by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, music by Cy Coleman) The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 77
- for the previous year’s The Will Rogers Follies drew criticism, it’s surprising that “Slap That Bass” got a pass from the politically correct police. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 89
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 Will Rogers Follies document this run, if any.
- No director named.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.