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Cyrano

Shows · Cyrano

In 17th-century Paris, the brilliant but homely soldier-poet Cyrano de Bergerac is hopelessly in love with his beautiful cousin Roxane. Too self-conscious about his enormous nose to declare his feelings, Cyrano agrees to help the handsome but tongue-tied Christian woo Roxane by writing passionate love letters and coaching him in romance. As Roxane falls deeper in love with the soul behind the words, Cyrano's sacrific…

Opened
1973
Performances
49
Type
Musical
Era
Revolution
Music: Michael J. LewisLyrics: Anthony BurgessBook: Anthony Burgess

Productions1 on Broadway

1973 Palace Theatre Original. May 13, 1973 · Michael Kidd 49 performances

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Licensing 1 entry

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In the literature38 passages

In 1923 Walter Hampden revived the Rostand classic Cyrano de Bergerac and was rewarded with great notices and a run of 250 performances. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p155

Jose Ferrer in his acclaimed revival of Cyrano de Bergerac, which moved here from the Alvin Theatre (1946). book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p301

Jose Ferrer, Arlene Dahl, and Paula Laurence were in Cyrano De Bergerac (also in the cast was the future novelist Tom Tryon); Mr. Ferrer next appeared in a revival of Richard III with Vincent Price, Jessie Royce Landis, Florence Reed, Margaret Wycherly, and Maureen Stapleton; book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p318

Actor/producer Walter Hampden brought a production of Cyrano de Bergerac (11/1/23; 250 performances) there and returned to the National in Hamlet, which moved from the Hampden Theater. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p390

The old boy had been cobbled into at least three closed-out-of-town tuners: Cyrano de Bergerac (1932), a Shubert-produced costume operetta; Vernon Duke’s The Vagabond Hero (1939), a revision of the former; and the 1973 Wright and Forrest summer stock tryout 4 Song for Cyrano with Joe Ferrer. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p230

With Chris Plummer simultaneously hamming it up on Broadway (and winning a Tony Award in the process), Joe Ferrer—the real Cyrano—hit the strawhat trail with this soggy operetta from olde-timers Wright and Forrest book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1062

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