The run closed March 13, 1983
- Opened
- March 29, 1981
- Closed
- March 13, 1983
- Performances
- 770
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Palace Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 23rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.
Who was in it42 named
Tom Avera
Dewright Baxter
Joan Bell
Sergio Cal
Donna Drake
Richard Glendon Larson
Marian Haraldson
Rex Hays
Daren Kelly
Paige Massman
Gene Montoya
Michael O Gorman
Susan Powers
Daniel Quinn
Lawrence Raiken
Robert Warners
Thomas Anthony
Carol Arthur
Victor Barbee
Mace Barrett
Mark Bove
James Fatta
John Hammil
Timothy Jecko
Kevin Mccready
Joanna Noble
Elyssa Paternoster
Bubba Dean Rambo
14 of these 42 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 28 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.
Characters15 roles recorded
Lauren Bacall Tess Harding
Harry Guardino Sam Craig
Gerry Vichi Pinky Peters
Tom Avera Phil Whittaker
Rex Hays Ellis McMaster
Roderick Cook Gerald Howe
Lawrence Raiken Abbott Canfield
Eivind Harum Alexi Petrikov
Grace Keagy Helga
Daren Kelly Chip Salisbury
Michael O'Gorman Floor Manager
Helon Blount Chairperson
Rex Everhart Maury
Jamie Ross Larry Donovan
Marilyn Cooper Jan Donovan
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
- Robert Moore
- Choreographer
- Tony Charmoli
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
March 29, 1981 Woman of the Year Kander 336 Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 465
Petit relies on the same ploy the choreographer of Woman of the Year [1981] did to deal with an aging star—have the men toss her around.
Speaker not recorded. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 160- Not appearing until halfway through the second act, she won a Tony Award for her single scene, one of the shortest stage times ever to yield a Tony. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 167
- Woman of the Year, in 1980, featured a brassy, highly enjoyable Kander and Ebb score and a bona fide star turn from Lauren Bacall. The loyalty of longtime friend Chita Rivera, dating back to the national tour of Zorba, was rewarded with their intimate songs for The Rink. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 181
- Woman of the Year (1981). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 211
- Woman of the Year (1981) had no such obstacles: just outlandishly high royalties, a bad book and score, and Lauren Bacall/Raquel Welch/Debbie Reynolds in the lead for 770 performances. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 37
- Despite kindly reviews and a quartet of Tony Awards, Bacall and company were unable to counteract audience apathy and outsized costs; capitalized at $2 million, the show came in at an astounding $2.7 million with a whoppingly high royalty package (21.25% of the gross p/us 10% to Bacall and, of course, the theatre renta… More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1000
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 Woman of the Year at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.