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The Goodbye Girl

The Goodbye Girl

Shows · The Goodbye Girl

When dancer Paula McFadden's boyfriend abandons her and sublets their apartment to struggling actor Elliot Garfield, they become reluctant roommates. Despite constant bickering, they gradually fall in love while Paula guards her bruised heart and Elliot endures a humiliating off-off-Broadway production of Richard III.

Opened
1993
Performances
188
Type
Musical
Era
Megamusical
Music: Marvin HamlischLyrics: David ZippelBook: Neil Simon

Productions1 on Broadway

1993 Marquis Theatre Original. March 4, 1993 · Michael Kidd 188 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals available
UK Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals available

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In the literature26 passages

Neil Simon adapted his film The Goodbye Girl as a musical (1993). book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p354

/The Goodbye Girl closed after only 188 performances. Bernadette Peters and Martin Short headed the cast on opening night, March 4, 1993. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p517

A rare misstep was costarring with Martin Short in 1994’s The Goodbye Girl, which proved just how elusive the magic of onstage chemistry can be. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p248

His only flop came with the musicalization of his movie The Goodbye Girl in 1993. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p317

Simon also wrote the libretto for the adaptation of The Goodbye Girl, like Chorus Line with music by Marvin Hamlisch. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p706

Kidd briefly returned from retirement in 1993 to take over the faltering The Goodbye Girl. All of his post—Li? Abner shows, strangely enough, were failures. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1097

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