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#26

re: Often-produced or well-known plays that have never played Broadway?

Posted: 4/14/09 at 2:37pm

Tony n Tina's Wedding is off-Broadway dinner theater, so I don't know if that would count.

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#27

re: Often-produced or well-known plays that have never played Broadway?

Posted: 4/14/09 at 2:40pm

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when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.

#28

re: Often-produced or well-known plays that have never played Broadway?

Posted: 4/14/09 at 2:54pm

Driving Miss Daisy - Pulitzer Prize and the source for an Oscar winning film

Your Own Thing - NY Drama Critics Circle winner Best Musical 1968; the first off-Bway show to win this prestigous award

I think The Mousetrap did have a run on Broadway in the 50s for a few months. [edit - there is no ibdb entry for The Mousetrap.]

Beaumarchais' play The Marriage of Figaro was produced on Broadway at Circle in the Square for a limited subscription non-profit run in about 1988. As for the other two plays, who knows?

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Updated On: 4/14/09 at 02:54 PM

#29

re: Often-produced or well-known plays that have never played Broadway?

Posted: 4/14/09 at 3:19pm

The Mousetrap did have a run in the 50's, but it was Off-Broadway and wasn't overly successful (at least as compared to its Londan run, still going since 1952!!!).

Edward II -- It may be Marlowe's best play, yet as far as I know, it's never played in a Broadway house. It's a beautiful play, containing some of Marlowe's best poetry.
Titus Andronicus
Coriolanus -- Not sure about that one, I know Papp did it at least once, but Broadway???? Anyone know for sure???
The Lesson -- Was done as a double bill with The Chairs Off-Broadway around 1957 or 1958, but I'm not sure that The Lesson, either individually or in tandem with something else, has been done on Broadway.
Three Tall Women -- Pulitzer Prize
Lazarus Laughed -- Just for the sake of argument -- the play stinks. It's a confusing crashing bore and almost unproduceable (particularly in today's financial climate), but, it is O'Neill from his approaching halcyon days.

BroadwayEd

#30

re: Often-produced or well-known plays that have never played Broadway?

Posted: 4/14/09 at 6:34pm

Just looked it up on IBDB--Coriolanus had four performances on Broadway in 1938. Which (if my search was right) means the only two Shakespeare plays that have not been performed on Broadway are Pericles, Titus Andronicus, and the Henry VI trilogy. I could be wrong!

And one show that I'm thrilled never made it to a Broadway stage: Martin Guerre, the Schonberg/Boublil atrocity that put me to sleep in London back in the mid-90s.

#31

re: Often-produced or well-known plays that have never played Broadway?

Posted: 4/14/09 at 7:58pm

HONK! has never played Broadway, but it's very popular over here in NC! I'm still puzzled about how it won the Olivier Award over both Mamma Mia! and The Lion King. Mamma Mia! I've never seen, but The Lion King losing to a musical about the Ugly Duckling? I just don't get it. I've enjoyed Honk the two times that I've been in it, but I still see The Lion King as superior. Sorry, rant over.

#32

re: Often-produced or well-known plays that have never played Broadway?

Posted: 4/14/09 at 8:04pm

I will paint my walls black and go emo if High School Musical or Bright Lights, Big City move to Broadway.

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