I can only recall one other time that a director had two or more shows open on Broadway in the same season. The current season Susan Stroman had Big Fish and Bullets. Perhaps it would have been wiser to concentrate on one show a season and maybe the shows would have ended up being better. Hal Prince had three shows in one season, they all opened within a four month period. They were Roza, a revival of Cabaret, and Phantom. The first two did not fair too well and Phantom is - well Phantom. Can anyone recall any other examples? Any thoughts on this?
It's actually happened a whole bunch of times. Recent examples include Matthew Warchus (God of Carnage and The Norman Conquests); Jack O'Brien (Dead Accounts and The Nance); Joe Mantello (I'll Eat You Last... and The Other Place, as well as Assassins and Wicked back in 2004). And Stroman also did it back in 2000 with The Music Man and Kiss Me Kate. And I'm sure there are probably a lot of other examples.
Susan Stroman did not direct or choreograph the revival of Kiss Me Kate. That was Michael Blakemore and Kathleen Marshall. However, I think Contact opened the same year as The Music Man.
It happens all the time. Sam Gold did it last season with Seminar and Picnic (in addition to his myriad other major off-Broadway directing gigs that season).
Diane Paulus directed Pippin and Oliver last spring and they were up against eachother for Best Musical Revival. (Nothing in the subject line said, “real” shows that exist outside of the SMASHiverse.)
Won what? if you mean Tony Awards, Mantello won for directing Assassins & Assassins won Best Revival. He wasn't nominated for Wicked & Wicked didn't win the Tony for Best Musical.
He had won a Tony for directing Take Me Out the prior season.