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Welcome to the Club, 1989

Shows · Welcome to the Club · Music Box, 1989

Original BroadwayMusic Box Theatre 12 performances

The run closed April 22, 1989

Opened
April 12, 1989
Closed
April 22, 1989
Performances
12
Previews
Theatre
Music Box Theatre

Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 349th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it10 named

Marilyn Sokol
Sharon Scruggs

8 of these 10 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 2 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
Peter Mark Schifter
Choreographer
Patricia Birch
Orchestrations
Doug Katsaros

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

  • Mr. Coleman had been represented on Broadway in April 1989 by Welcome to the Club (book by A. E. Hochner and lyrics by A.E. Hochner and Cy Coleman). It lasted 12 performances. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 277
  • Coleman’s up-and-down career resumed almost a decade later with the dismal Welcome to the Club (1989), the fine City of Angels (1989), and the not-so-fine Will Rogers Follies (1991). More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1091
  • Subsequent musicals include Merlin (1983), Jerry’s Girls (1985), Teddy and Alice (1987), Welcome to the Club (1989), The Secret Garden (1991), and The Goodbye Girl (1993). More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1102
  • Subsequent musicals include Merlin (1983), Jerry’ Girls (1985), Teddy and Alice (1987), Welcome to the Club (1989), The Secret Garden (1991), and The Goodbye Girl (1993). More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 1101
  • CY COLEMAN less offensive than WELCOME TO THE CLUB, if only marginally better. But Coleman supplied three attractive tunes, At My Side, In the Name of Love, and Ain’t He Cute. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 348

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 Welcome to the Club at all.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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