Productions1 on Broadway
| 2001 | Minskoff Theatre Original. April 26, 2001 · Scott Ellis | 21 performances |
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Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International The Adventures of Tom Sawyer matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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In the literature6 passages
Two more flops appeared on the Minskoff stage. Saturday Night Fever (10/21/99; 501 performances) and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (4/26/2001; 21 performances) were both met with lukewarm reviews and audience apathy. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p377
among the musicals interested in looking at boys’ lives were: Big (1996), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (2001), a 2003 revival of Big River, Tarzan (2006), Billy Elliot (2008), and Newsies (2012) book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p172
Joshua Park (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer), Rosie Perez (References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot), Joely Richardson (Madame Melville), John Ritter (The Dinner Party), The Cast of Stones in His Pocket- Sean Campion & Conleth Hill (Special Awards) book:theatre-world-2011-12-season-v-68-willis#p424
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer—which closed May 13, 2001—haunting Forty-fifth Street until the summer of 2002. (The Minskoff finally re-opened in October 2002 with previews of Dance of the Vampires, after seventy-four dark weeks.) book:broadway-yearbook-2001-2002-a-relevant-and-irreverent-steven-suskin-kindle-2003-#p17
Among the ancients of Broadway's musical theater fraternity this made him a veritable child. The same went for 4o-ish Don Schlitz, a Grammy Award-winning country western cross-over composer, who helped turn Mark Twain's Toni Sawyer into The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a very bland musical that opened at the Minskoff Thea… book:ever-after-the-last-years-of-musical-theater-and-beyond-barry-singer#p182
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 217 book:ever-after-the-last-years-of-musical-theater-and-beyond-singer-barry-1957-new-yo#p345
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