The run closed November 5, 2017
- Opened
- 2017
- Closed
- November 5, 2017
- Performances
- 236
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- —
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 95th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it15 named
David Girolmo
Steffanie Leigh
Erik Liberman
Barbara Marineau
Stephanie Jae Park
Angel Reda
Stephanie Rothenberg
Bart Shatto
7 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 8 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.
Characters1 roles recorded
Jennifer Rias Miss Teale and others
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
- Michael Greif
- Choreographer
- Christopher Gattelli
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.
Around this production
War Paint is a musical with music by Scott Frankel, lyrics by Michael Korie, and a book by Doug Wright. It is based both on Lindy Woodhead's 2004 book War Paint and on the 2007 documentary film The Powder & the Glory by Ann Carol Grossman and Arnie Reisman. The musical focuses on the lives of and rivalry between 20th-century female entrepreneurs Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein.
- Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubenstein were portrayed by Christine Ebersole and Patti LuPone in the 2017 Broadway musical War Paint, Arden and Rubenstein were parodied by Marian Santre and Marie Stevens in the “Fifth Avenue” sequence. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 324
- The real reason War Paint closed was because in its final thirteen weeks on Broadway, it never sold better than 49 percent of its gross potential. The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 120
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 recording is held for War Paint at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.