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Welcome to the Club

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Welcome to the Club is a 1989 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Cy Coleman. Set in a New York City jail for alimony violators, the musical was directed by Peter Mark Schifter and opened at the Music Box Theatre on April 13, 1989.

Opened
1989
Performances
12
Type
Musical
Era
Megamusical
Music: Cy ColemanLyrics: Cy Coleman, A. E. HotchnerBook: A. E. Hotchner

Productions1 on Broadway

1989 Music Box Original. April 12, 1989 · Peter Mark Schifter 12 performances

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Mr. Coleman had been represented on Broadway in April 1989 by Welcome to the Club (book by A. E. Hochner and lyrics by A.E. Hochner and Cy Coleman). It lasted 12 performances. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p277

Coleman’s up-and-down career resumed almost a decade later with the dismal Welcome to the Club (1989), the fine City of Angels (1989), and the not-so-fine Will Rogers Follies (1991). book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1091

Subsequent musicals include Merlin (1983), Jerry’s Girls (1985), Teddy and Alice (1987), Welcome to the Club (1989), The Secret Garden (1991), and The Goodbye Girl (1993). book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1102

Subsequent musicals include Merlin (1983), Jerry’ Girls (1985), Teddy and Alice (1987), Welcome to the Club (1989), The Secret Garden (1991), and The Goodbye Girl (1993). book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-steven-suskin#p1101

CY COLEMAN less offensive than WELCOME TO THE CLUB, if only marginally better. But Coleman supplied three attractive tunes, At My Side, In the Name of Love, and Ain’t He Cute. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p348

WELCOME TO THE CLUB [April 13, 1989] and WELCOME TO THE CLUB (if THE LIFE, WILL ROGERS FOLLIES [May 1, 1991], and WELCOME TO THE CLUB [April 13, 1989] are any indication, Coleman has an incredibly demeaning attitude toward women.) book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p349

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