The run closed January 6, 2002
- Opened
- October 25, 2001
- Closed
- January 6, 2002
- Performances
- 85
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 198th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it21 named
Timothy J Alex
Brad Bradley
Dylis Croman
Michael Goddard
Amy Hall
Amy Heggins
Cornelius Jones Jr
Davis Kirby
J C Montgomery
Rachelle Rak
Kelli Severson
Patrick Wetzel
Jessica Dillan
8 of these 21 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
- Susan Stroman
- Choreographer
- Susan Stroman
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 Thou Shalt Not, 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
Thou Shalt Not is a musical based on Émile Zola's 1867 novel Thérèse Raquin with music and lyrics by Harry Connick Jr. and an adapted book by David Thompson. The musical deals with the consequences involved in the breaking of several Commandments, in particular the sixth and seventh. It ran on Broadway in 2001.
Lincoln Center certainly should have pulled the plug after they saw the workshop, you might well say. But it doesn’t work that way. Broadway Yearbook 2001 2002 A Relevant and Irreverent Steven Suskin Kindle 2003 , p. 90
- And the acclaimed director Susan Stroman teamed up with composer Harry Connick Jr. and librettist David Thompson to deliver to Broadway a huge failure, Thou Shalt Not (10/25/ 2001; 85 performances). Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 436
- In the 2001—2002 season, for example, TDF subsidized 14 Broadway shows, including Urinetown, Dance of Death, and Thou Shalt Not. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 544
- Miss Saigon, Thou Shalt Not, Marie Christine, Jane Eyre, Parade, Jelly’s Last Jam, The Civil War. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 99
- Twenty-first century credits include Thou Shalt Not in the 2001-2002 Broadway season and Kiss Me, Kate in London’s West End. The Broadway Design Roster Designers and Their Credits Owen Bobbi Bibliographies, p. 260
- the cast album was released on a two-CD set by Columbia (CK-99036; one CD includes selections from Connick’s 2001 Broadway musical Thou Shalt Not, performed by Connick and cast member O’Hara) The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 396
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.
- Which of the 1 recordings of Thou Shalt Not document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.