Shows · Ain't Misbehavin' · Longacre Theatre, 1978
Ain't Misbehavin', 1978
Opened May 9, 1978
Closed February 21, 1982
1,604 performances
Original
Broadway
1 Tony Awards
Of the productions that opened in the 1970s, this had the 12th longest run.
Other stagings of Ain't Misbehavin' 2 more
Who was in it10 named
Hank Jones
Frank Owens
George Merritt
Jason Booker
Loretta Bowers
Creative team
- Director
- Richard Maltby Jr., Richard Maltby
- Choreographer
- Arthur Faria
Tony Awards 1 from 1 nomination
Recordings
2 recordings of Ain't Misbehavin' exist, but none were released while this run was on. See Ain't Misbehavin' for all of them.
Around this production
Ain't Misbehavin' is a musical revue with a book by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby Jr., and music by various composers and lyricists as arranged and orchestrated by Luther Henderson. It is named after the song by Fats Waller (with Harry Brooks and Andy Razaf), "Ain't Misbehavin'". The musical is a tribute to the music of Waller (1904–1943), who composed in a time when Manhattan nightclubs such as the Cotton Club and the Savoy Ballroom were the playgrounds of high society and Lenox Avenue dives were filled with piano players banging out the new beat known as swing. Five performers present an evening of rowdy, raunchy, and humorous songs that encapsulate the various moods of the era and ref…
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