Bullets Over Broadway, 2014

The run closed August 24, 2014

Opened

April 10, 2014

Closed

August 24, 2014

Performances

156

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

St. James Theatre

Of the 425 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and carry a performance count, this is the 124th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it26 named

Janet Dickinson
Kim Faure
Paige Faure
Kelcy Griffin
Sarah Lin Johnson
Andy Jones
Amanda Kloots Larsen
Brittany Marcin
Paul Mcgill
Beth Johnson Nicely
Trixie
Kevin Worley

14 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 12 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.

Characters9 roles held

Zach Braff David Shayne
Marin Mazzie Helen Sinclair
Brooks Ashmanskas Warner Purcell
Vincent Pastore Nick Valenti
Lenny Wolpe Julian Marx
Nick Cordero Cheech
Betsy Wolfe Ellen
Heléne Yorke Olive Neal
Karen Ziemba Eden Brent

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Creative team

Director

Susan Stroman

Choreographer

Susan Stroman

Orchestrations

Doug Besterman 2

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Recordings 2 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Bullets Over Broadway, 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

Nick Cordero received a Tony nomination for his breakout performance as Cheech. The show used period songs from the 1920s rather than an original score, matching the Woody Allen film's approach.

Bullets Over Broadway, 385–86, 387, 397–98 Here S To the Ladies Conversations With More of the Great Eddie Shapiro Oxford U, p. 421

• In 2014 she played the aging diva Helen Sinclair in Woody Allen’s musical version of his 1994 movie, Bullets Over Broadway. The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 468
• none is currently slated for recursive musical film adaptations. Of the most recent Broadway musicals based on films—Once, Bullets over Broadway, Rocky, Ghost, Kinky Boots, Bring It On: The Musical, Legally Blonde: The Musical, Carrie: The Musical— Dominic Mchugh the Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations 2019 Ox, p. 883
• filmmakers returned to ancient Broadway melodies for inspiration and sometimes musically felicitous reinterpretation, as seen in Woody Allen’s original film musical Everyone Says I Love You (Miramax, 1997) and prominently in most of his richly musical comedy soundtracks from Manhattan’s Gershwin tribute to Radio Days a… Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat To Sondheim and Lloyd Web, p. 228
• Just as when she went from Ragtime to Kiss Me, Kate, swinging from serious drama to rollicking comedy, in 2014 Mazzie followed up Carrie with Bullets Over Broadway, based on Woody Allen’s hit film. The show, though eagerly anticipated, was not well received and closed after 156 performances. Here S To the Ladies Conversations With More of the Great Eddie Shapiro Oxford U, p. 410
• Despite a production helmed by the much-heralded Susan Stroman, the musical lost in all six categories in which it was Tony nominated; it shuttered after a mere 156 performances. The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 139

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What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• Which of the 2 recordings of Bullets Over Broadway document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.