Productions1 on Broadway
| 2003 | Broadhurst Theatre Original. March 27, 2003 · Lonny Price | 60 performances |
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In the literature5 passages
Urban Cowboy (Cocoanut Grove Playhouse) book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p230
for every megahit (Little Shop of Horrors, La Cage aux Folles, Hairspray) there is an implosion (The Goodbye Girl, Urban Cowboy). book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p390
| always thought it would be a great honor to appear in a Hirschfeld, but sadly he died just before my first Broadway show, Urban Cowboy. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-third-annual-edition-viagas-robert-3rd-annual-ed-#p341
Between 2001 and 2014 the majority of new musicals were based on successful movies; these include: ... Urban Cowboy, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Spamalot, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Color Purple, The Wedding Singer, Tarzan, Grey Gardens, Mary Poppins, High Fidelity, Xanadu, Young Frankenstein, The Little Mermaid, Cry Ba… book:a-history-of-the-american-musical-theatre-no-business-like-nathaniel-hurwitz-tay#p287
Another mediocre [John] Travolta movie gets the Broadway-melody treatment: Urban Cowboy . Get set for a cheesy musical of every movie that made money in the last 30 or 40 years.”—MICHAEL JETER (Grand Hotel , based on the 1932 classic that won the Best Picture Oscar) book:broadway-babylon-boze-hadleigh#p122
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