Productions1 on Broadway
| 1974 | Cort Theatre Original. May 28, 1974 · Grover Dale | 1,920 performances |
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Recordings 1 album held
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The fifth longest running Broadway musical of the 1970s, The Magic Show was Stephen Schwartz’s third in a row — the others were Godspell and Pippin — to play over 1,900 performances. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p264
Stephen Schwartz made a welcome return to the theatre with Wicked, his first hit Broadway show since 1974s The Magic Show, and Charles Strouse hasn’t had a hit since Annie in 1977. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p178
Schwartz’s score for The Magic Show (1974) was overshadowed by Doug Henning’s magic, but, like Pippin, the show ran for more than four years. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p346
Schwartz went on, if that is how it must be described, to do the songs for Pippin [1972] and The Magic Show [1974], both of which are still running. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p357
Stephen Schwartz followed Godspell with the hits Pippin and The Magic Show; book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p359
The great magic feat here was pulling a long-run hit out of a very empty hat. The diminuitive, scraggly mustachioed, bell-bottomed Doug Henning was so likable and so unpretentious that he managed to pull it off. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p596
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