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The Visit

The Visit

Shows · The Visit

Claire Zachanassian, now the wealthiest woman in the world, returns to her impoverished hometown of Brachen and offers the citizens a fortune — on the condition that they kill Anton Schell, the man who seduced and abandoned her as a girl decades ago. As the town wrestles with its conscience, the temptation of wealth slowly corrupts even the most upstanding citizens.

Opened
2015
Performances
39
Type
Musical
Era
Contemporary
Music: John KanderLyrics: Fred Ebb, John KanderBook: Terrence McNally

Productions5 on Broadway

1958 Lunt Fontanne Theatre Original. May 5, 1958 · Peter Brook · predates this show 189 performances
1973 Ethel Barrymore Theatre Revival. November 25, 1973 · Harold Prince · predates this show 32 performances
1992 Criterion Center Stage Right Revival. January 23, 1992 · Edwin Sherin · predates this show 45 performances
2011 Ambassador Theatre Revival. November 30, 2011 · Carl Andress · predates this show 1 performances
2015 Revival Theatre not recorded. · John Doyle 39 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 4 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.

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In the literature14 passages

The Scottsboro Boys (2010), Follies (the 2011 Broadway revival), The Last Ship (2014), and The Visit (2015) quickly closed, and the critically acclaimed Grey Gardens (2006) could manage no more than nine months of performances. book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p13

Two examples are The Scottsboro Boys (2010; forty-nine performances) and The Visit (2015; sixty-one performances), both of which played at the intimate Lyceum Theatre. book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p307

Tony nominations: Best Direction of a Play, The Visit, 1959, Best Direction of a Musical, Irma La Douce, 1961. book:the-golden-age-of-american-musical-theatre-1943-1965-naden-corinne-j-rowman-litt#p178

LUNT-FONTANNE (205 W. 46th St., opened 1910 as the Globe, seats 1,489). The Globe opened in 1910 for the musicals of Charles Dillingham, with a performance of The Old Town (January 10, 1910), starring Fred Stone, Dave Montgomery, and Peggy Wood. Dillington went into bankruptcy in 1933, and the Globe became a movie hous… book:the-golden-age-of-american-musical-theatre-1943-1965-naden-corinne-j-rowman-litt#p205

In 2014, Doyle directed Kander and Ebb’s musical version of Durenmatt’s The Visit with Chita Rivera at the Williamstown Theatre Festival; it moved to Broadway in 2015, where it earned a Tony Award nomination as Best Musical; book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p198

and The Visit (2015, another Tony nomination). She also starred in her own one-woman show, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life (2005, Tony nomination). During her career she received a record-setting ten Tony nominations. In 2018 she received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p667

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