Big

Twelve-year-old Josh Baskin makes a wish on a carnival fortune-telling machine to be big, and wakes up the next morning as a thirty-year-old man. Thrust into the adult world, he gets a job at a toy company where his childlike enthusiasm and imagination make him a star, and he falls for a co-worker named Susan. But as the adult world grows more complicated, Josh must decide whether to stay big or find a way to become…

Opened: 1996
Performances: 193
Type: Musical
Era: Megamusical

Music: David ShireLyrics: Richard Maltby Jr.Book: John Weidman

Productions2 on Broadway

1996	Shubert Theatre Original. April 28, 1996 · Mike Ockrent	193 performances
2019	Dominion Theatre Transfer. November 2, 2019

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Recordings 2 albums held

Big: The Musical Universal Records UD-53009. 1996

The Big Bus Film Score Monthly FSM Vol.14 No.1. January 27, 2011

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