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The Threepenny Opera, 1989

Shows · The Threepenny Opera · Lunt Fontanne Theatre, 1989

The Threepenny Opera
We hold no picture of this staging. This one is filed against The Threepenny Opera and could document any of its runs. None
Revival BroadwayLunt-Fontanne Theatre 65 performances

The run closed December 31, 1989

Opened
November 5, 1989
Closed
December 31, 1989
Performances
65
Previews
20

Of the 464 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and carry a performance count, this is the 186th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Threepenny Opera 5 more that season

1933 Empire Theatre Original · Francesco Von Mendelssohn 12 perf.
1954 Theatre de Lys Original · Carmen Capalbo 95 perf.
1966 Billy Rose Theatre Revival · Michael Meschke 13 perf.
1976 Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Richard Foreman 307 perf.
2006 Studio 54 Revival · Scott Elliott 77 perf.

Who was in it22 named

Kim Criswell
Suzzanne Douglas
Josh Mostel
Philip Carroll
Teresa de Zarn
Ethyl Eichelberger
Anne Kerry Ford
Mitchell Greenberg
Michael Piontek
Tom Robbins
Alex Santoriello
David Schechter
K T Sullivan
Fiddle Viracola
Steven Major West

7 of these 22 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 15 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director
John Dexter
Producer
Jerome Hellman

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Recordings 6 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against The Threepenny Opera, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

What this page does not know

  • No photograph of this staging.
  • No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
  • Which of the 6 recordings of The Threepenny Opera document this run, if any.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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