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.
Licensing not confirmed
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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
Passages naming this show, found by keyword across 178 books. Where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.