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Shenandoah (1975 Original Broadway Cast)

Shenandoah

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Shenandoah is a 1974 musical with music by Gary Geld, lyrics by Peter Udell, and book by Udell, Philip Rose, and James Lee Barrett. It is based on Barrett's original screenplay for the 1965 film Shenandoah.

Opened
1975
Performances
1,050
Type
Musical
Era
Revolution
Music: Gary GeldLyrics: Peter UdellBook: James Lee Barrett, with Philip Rose, Peter Udell

Productions3 on Broadway

1889 Star Theatre Original. September 9, 1889 · predates this show 250 performances
1975 Alvin Theatre Revival. January 7, 1975 · Philip Rose 1,050 performances
1989 Virginia Theatre Revival. August 8, 1989 · Robert Tucker 32 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

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In the literature25 passages

A new production of the hit musical Shenandoah failed to run as long as the original, but it was followed by the successful musical City of Angels, which won six Tony Awards: Best Musical, Best Score (Cy Coleman, David Zippel), Best Book (Larry Gelbart) book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p220

Shenandoah, a musical that arrived from the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut in 1975, starred John Cullum, who won a Tony Award for his performance in this Civil War musical. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p293

Comin’ Uptown, an all-black version starring Gregory Hines and written by the team that gave us Purlie (1970) and Shenandoah (1975). Unfortunately, that one played only forty-five performances back in 19709. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p269

Last night Miss Frings—helped by the team that a few seasons back gave us the successful but culturally uneventful Shenandoah [1975]—devised a musical version of her play. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p67

This third and final offering from the Purlie (1970) boys had been skedded for production by Circle in the Square, simultaneously with their second musical, Shenandoah. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p70

"Annie at Goodspeed was merely a fair-to-middlin’ kids’ show with mediocre songs, but Mike Nichols happened upon it and more or less adopted little Annie. The presence of golden-boy Nichols pried open enough checkbooks to buy her a new red dress, though it took a lot of checkbooks (as evidenced by the half-dozen produc… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p74

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