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Five Guys Named Moe

Shows · Five Guys Named Moe

Five Guys Named Moe is a musical with a book by Clarke Peters and lyrics and music by Louis Jordan and others. The musical is based on an earlier musical short of the same name by Louis Jordan from 1943.

Opened
1992
Performances
445
Type
Musical
Era
Megamusical
Music: Miscellaneous writersLyrics: Miscellaneous writersBook: Clarke Peters

Productions2 on Broadway

1991 Transfer Theatre not recorded. · predates this show
1992 Eugene O’Neill Theatre Original. April 8, 1992 · Charles Augins 445 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International Five Guys Named Moe matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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In the literature10 passages

Avian, Bob Chorus Line, A Miss Saigon Sunset Boulevard Five Guys Named Moe book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p387

The musical revue Five Guys Named Moe (4/8/92; 445 performances) incorporated songs sung by Louis Jordan. A hit in England, the show was less of one in New York. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p180

And (like Five Guys Named Moe) the audience was invited to join the cast for dancing in the aisles (during the “Grand Carnival” finale). book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p113

• Five Guys Named Moe, songs of jazz artist Louis Jordan (1992); book:a-history-of-the-american-musical-theatre-no-business-like-nathaniel-hurwitz-tay#p274

Five Guys Named Moe celebrated size in “I Like ’Em Fat Like That.” book:broadway-bodies-ryan-donovan-2023#p104

Five Guys Named Moe, which opened in April 1992, was a revue constructed from the greatest hits of the jump-jazz legend, Louis Jordan. book:ever-after-the-last-years-of-musical-theater-and-beyond-barry-singer#p58

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