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Aida, 2000

Shows · Aida · Palace Theatre, 2000

Aida
We hold no picture of this staging. This one is filed against Aida and could document any of its runs. None
Revival BroadwayPalace Theatre 1,852 performances

The run closed September 5, 2004

Opened
March 23, 2000
Closed
September 5, 2004
Performances
1,852
Previews
Unknown

Of the 397 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and carry a performance count, this is the 9th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Aida 5 more that season

1927 Gallo Opera House Original 1 perf.
1944 Center Theatre Revival · G. S. Eyssell 2 perf.
1946 Center Theatre Revival · Mario Valle 2 perf.
1947 Center Theatre Revival · Mario Valle 3 perf.
1948 Center Theatre Revival

Who was in it71 named

Robert M Armitage
Troy Allen Burgess
Franne Calma
Bob Gaynor
Kisha Howard
Tim Hunter
Youn Kim
Kyra Little
Kenya Unique Massey
Corinne Mcfadden
Phineas Newborn Iii
Eric Sciotto
Samuel N Thiam
Jerald Vincent
Natalia Zisa
Lisa Brescia
Taylor Dayne
Micky Dolenz
Jessica Hendy
Terra Lynn Arrington
Toni Braxton
Afi Bryant
Ben Cameron
Tim Craskey
Maya Days
Delisco
Anika Ellis
William Robert Gaynor
Steve Geary
Rhett G George
Darrell Grand Moultrie
Ashley Amber Haase
Robert Jason Jackson
John Jacquet Jr
Mahi Kekumu
Grasan Kingsberry
Nina Lafarga
Graeme Malcolm
Tom Nelis
Noa Neve
Karine Newborn
Melodye Perry
Keenah Reid
Alice Rietveld
Chuck Saculla
Solange Sandy
Michael Serapiglia
Simone
Slam
Lori Ann Strunk
Eric Lajuan Summers
Brooke Wendle
Michelle T Williams

18 of these 71 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 53 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.

Characters8 roles held

Lisa Simone Aida
Adam Pascal Radames
Kelli Fournier Amneris
John Hickok Zoser
Damian Perkins Mereb
Daniel Oreskes Pharaoh
Schele Williams Nehebka
Tyrees Allen Amonasro

These came out of a wiki table. The names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.

Creative team

Director
Robert Falls
Choreographer
Wayne Cilento

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.

Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination

Best Musical Nominated

Recordings 7 held for the work

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

Around this production

Aida (also known as Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida) is a musical with music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice, and a book by Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls, and David Henry Hwang. It is based on the opera of the same name written by Antonio Ghislanzoni with music by Giuseppe Verdi. The musical was originally produced by Hyperion Theatricals. Aida premiered on Broadway on March 23, 2000, running for 1,852 performances until September 5, 2004. It was nominated for five Tony Awards and won four, including Best Original Score. It was also named by Time as one of the top ten theatre productions of the year. The original Broadway cast recording won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. A s…

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

  • No photograph of this staging.
  • Which of the 7 recordings of Aida 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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