Productions2 on Broadway
| 1977 | Ethel Barrymore Theatre Original. April 17, 1977 · Gene Saks | 872 performances |
| 1977 | Transfer Theatre not recorded. |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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In the literature21 passages
Stewart also put a black company into his long-running I Love My Wife [1977], and there was talk of doing the same for 42nd Street [1980]. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p443
(Merrick bought out the colorful Kippy for 10% of the profits—e., $0—but not until a squad of underworld goons stormed into Merrick’s St. James Theatre headquarters one Saturday morning, terrorized the elevator man, and slashed the furnishings. Of the wrong office, as it happened; they got general manager Jack Schlisse… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p586
"I Love My Wife, 89, 421, 457-60, 512, 564" book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1140
(Merrick bought out the colorful Kippy for 10% of the profits—i.e., $0—but not until a squad of underworld goons stormed into Merrick’s St. James Theatre headquarters one Saturday morning, terrorized the elevator man, and slashed the furnishings. Of the wrong office, as it happened; they got general manager Jack Schlis… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-steven-suskin#p585
The reception of the following financially profitable shows fell somewhere between mixed and favorable. All were flawed, perhaps, but there was usually at least one element that more than made up for the weaknesses. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-steven-suskin#p1072
[Hellzapoppin (Jerry Lewis) January 22, 1977] I Love My Wife April 17, 1977 On the Twentieth Century February 19, 1978 [Home Again, Home Again April 14, 1979] Barnum April 30, 1980 book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-steven-suskin#p1090
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