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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