Productions3 on Broadway
| 1980 | St. James Theatre Original. April 30, 1980 · Joe Layton | 854 performances |
| 1981 | Transfer Theatre not recorded. | |
| 1986 | Victoria Palace Theatre Transfer. |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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In the literature25 passages
On April 30, 1980, the hit musical Barnum arrived and won a Tony Award for its star, Jim Dale, as well as for its sets (David Mitchell) and costumes (Theoni V. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p281
Aldredge). The fanciful musical about the mighty circus impresario P.T. Barnum ran for 854 performances. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p282
Michael Stewart, with 1980 hits Barnum and 42nd Street running, was especially skeptical about exposing the half-baked sequel to the harsh glare of Broadway; but Lee Adams had been undergoing a dry spell since Applause in 1970 (a dry spell that continues to this day), book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p131
Stewart, with 1980 hits Barnum and 42nd Street running, was especially skeptical about exposing the half-baked sequel to the harsh glare of Broadway; but Lee Adams had been undergoing a dry spell since Applause in 1970 (a dry spell that continues to this day), book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-steven-suskin#p130
Even if based on literary texts, concept musicals were not really conceived in the spirit of textual adaptations at all. Many looked directly to diverse forms of musical theater presentation, often for the purpose of exploring the very meanings through which they had been culturally constructed as "shows"-that is, as f… book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p561
Barnum 1980, La Cage Aux Folies 1984) garnered from 11 nominations. book:the-broadway-design-roster-designers-and-their-credits-owen-bobbi-bibliographies#p25
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