The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- December 12, 1996
- Closed
- —
- Performances
- 0
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- National Theatre, Washington, D.C. (never reached Broadway)
No performance count on this record. 2,834 of 13,459 productions are missing one, so a blank here means unrecorded, not a short run.
No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.
Who was in it3 named
3 of these 3 names have a person record behind them and link to one. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Harold Prince
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
The show famously closed during its Washington D.C. tryout in 1997 and never made it to Broadway, despite being a hit in London's West End. Andrew Lloyd Webber blamed the American production's failure on creative differences with director Harold Prince. Jim Steinman's rock-influenced lyrics included the hit 'No Matter What,' which became a number-one single for Boyzone.
The musical’s first preview performance was on December 6, 1996, at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. After six previews, the musical officially opened on December 12 and permanently closed on February 9, 1997, after seventy regular performances. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 296
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 Whistle Down the Wind at all.
- When it closed.
- No performance count.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.