The run closed September 6, 1981
- Opened
- February 11, 1979
- Closed
- September 6, 1981
- Performances
- 1,082
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 20th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it22 named
Helen Castillo
Celia Celnik Matthau
Wayne Mattson
Andy Roth
Greg Zadikov
Diana Canova
Rhonda Farer
John Hammil
Marsha Skaggs
Ted Wass
D Michael Heath
Dorothy Kiara
Hal Shane
9 of these 22 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 13 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
- Robert Moore
- Choreographer
- Patricia Birch
- Producer
- Emanuel Azenberg
- Orchestrations
- Ralph Burns, Richard Hazard
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
- Birch, Patricia Candide Grease Little Night Music, A Pacific Overtures They’re Playing Our Song You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 387
- A later musical with only two characters — but each with three alter egos — was the 1979 hit, They’re Playing Our Song. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 244
- /They’re Playing Our Song/, although a big hit, was a lackluster musical and didn’t represent Simon or his collaborators, Mar- vin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager, at their best. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 517
- He returned to Broadway, after another Hollywood hiatus, with 1979’s bouncy, long-run pop hit They’re Playing Our Song, with lyrics by Carol Bayer Sager and a slick, funny libretto by Neil Simon. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 71
- This became a sketchy, gimmicky musical with a negligible score pro- vided by the prototypes themselves. They're Playing Our Song was a severe letdown compared to Simon’s previous musicals, Little Me (1962), Sweet Charity (1966), and Promises, Promises (1968). More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 924
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 They’re Playing Our Song at all.
- No show page for They’re Playing Our Song. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.