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Wonderland

Shows · Wonderland

A modern retelling of Alice in Wonderland, where a young New York schoolteacher named Alice follows the White Rabbit into a fantastical underground world beneath Central Park. She encounters a mad tea party, a tyrannical Queen of Hearts, and must find her inner strength to defeat the forces of chaos and return home to her daughter.

Opened
2011
Performances
33
Type
Musical
Era
Modern
Music: Frank WildhornLyrics: Jack MurphyBook: Jack Murphy, Gregory Boyd

Productions2 on Broadway

1905 Majestic Theatre Original. October 24, 1905 · predates this show 73 performances
2011 Revival Theatre not recorded. · Gregory Boyd 33 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 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 1 entry

US Music Theatre International Wonderland matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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In the literature13 passages

In June, 1982, a musical called Play Me A Country Song had a very brief run here; and in December of that year, Eva Le Gallienne revived her adaptation of Alice in Wonderland (co-authored with Florida Friebus) for a brief run. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p220

reopened as Wonderland, January 1913; renamed the New York Theatre, 1913; opened as Loew’s New York, 1915. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p405

Universal also went looking for a black family musical, plunging on Mike Nichols’s Alice [1978], which starred Debbie Allen in an alcoholic Wonderland and shuttered ignominiously in Philadelphia. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p211

There have been numerous musical adaptations of Carroll’s Alice stories, including a number of Off- and Off-Off-Broadway versions such as Alice with Kisses (1964; closed in previews but memorialized with its window card tacked on the wall of Max Bialystock’s office in the 1967 film The Producers); Alice in Wonderland (… book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p262

His Wonderland (2011) was a contemporary take on Lewis B. Carroll’s 1865 novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and his most recent Broadway musical Bonnie & Clyde (2011) took place in the 1930s. book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p373

Her first off-Broadway production was Alice in Wonderland (1971), which won an Obie Award for her costumes. book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p407

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