The run closed July 27, 1997
- Opened
- October 25, 1995
- Closed
- July 27, 1997
- Performances
- 734
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Marquis Theatre
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 31st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it45 named
Adam Heller
Roxane Barlow
Michael Demby Cain
Caitlin Carter
Pascale Faye
Angelo Fraboni
Amy Heggins
Ken Land
Darren Lee
Aixa M Rosario Medina
Tara O Brien
Michael O Donnell
Vince Pesce
Arte Phillips
Devin Richards
Cynthia Sophiea
Rocker Verastique
Leslie Bell
Neal Benari
Bill Burns
Christiane Farr Wersinger
Hillel Gitter
Todd Hunter
Peter Lentz
Kimberly Lyon
Julio Monge
Troy Myers
Mason Roberts
Tom Sardinia
Sally Ann Tumas
15 of these 45 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 30 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
- Blake Edwards
- Choreographer
- Rob Marshall
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
Victor/Victoria is a musical with a book by Blake Edwards, music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and additional musical material (music and lyrics) by Frank Wildhorn. It is based on the 1982 film of the same name, which was a remake of the German film comedy Viktor und Viktoria shot by Reinhold Schünzel in 1933 from his own script. Mancini died before he could complete the music, and Wildhorn was brought in to finish the score. The original 1995 Broadway production created mild controversy when actress Julie Andrews, feeling that the rest of the show had been overlooked, declined her (and the show's only) Tony Award nomination.
On October 25, 1995, the red carpet was rolled out at the Marquis Theatre for the return of Julie Andrews to Broadway in a stage adaptation of her hit 1982 film, Victor/Victoria. Before the curtain rose, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani appeared onstage to make a welcoming speech for the star, who was making her first Broadway appearance since Camelot in i960. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 355
Julie Andrews was nominated for her performance in Victor/Victoria, but declined the nomination “in protest of what she viewed as the humiliation the musical had received in earning just a single Tony nomination.”11
Speaker not recorded. A History of the American Musical Theatre No Business Like Nathaniel Hurwitz Tay, p. 276- Sadly, he never got to re-create his wise and warm movie portrayal of the aging “queen with a head cold,” Toddy, in Victor/Victoria’s Broadway incarnation. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 223
- Henry Mancini—who wouldn't show up on Broadway until the 1990s with the egregiously mediocre (and posthumous) Victor/Victoria. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 277
- and later performed the title role of Victor/Victoria (1995), which had been originated by Julie Andrews. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 65
- In 1984, an earlier and different stage musical adaptation based on Victor/Victoria opened in Greece. Titled Biktop kai Biktopia, the production was recorded by CBS Records (LP # 25956) and includes twelve songs. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 232
- State Fair (like Victor/Victoria) was essentially shut out, and so Merrick was featured in newspaper ads for State Fair. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 239
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 Victor/Victoria at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.