Dance a Little Closer, 1983

The run closed May 11, 1983

Opened

May 11, 1983

Closed

May 11, 1983

Performances

1

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Minskoff Theatre

Of the 464 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and carry a performance count, this is the 441st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it23 named

Colleen Ashton
Noel Craig
Mary Dale
James Fatta
I M Hobson
Cheryl Howard
Elizabeth Hubbard
Joseph Kolinski
Philip Mollet
Diane Pennington
Linda Poser
Alyson Reed
Reuben Singer
Robin Stephens
Brian Sutherland
Peter Wandel
Joyce Worsley

6 of these 23 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 17 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

Alan Jay Lerner

Choreographer

Billy Wilson

Orchestrations

Jonathan T

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 1 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Dance a Little Closer, 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

Dance a Little Closer is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Charles Strouse. The story is an updated version of Robert E. Sherwood's 1936 antiwar comedy Idiot's Delight.

LEFT: Cariou, backed up by Diane Pennington, Cherry Howard, and Alyson Reed in the one-performance Dance a Little Closer. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 314

• Strouse’s next Broadway outing was Dance a Little Closer, for which he teamed with Alan Jay Lerner. Lerner also contributed the libretto and direction to Dance a Little Closer, an updating of Robert. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 529
• His romantic title song of his Dance a Little Closer show a composer who won't settle for anything less than absolute dramatic truth. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 49
• Other short-lived post-Camelot musicals included Lolita, My Love (1972), Carmelina (1979), and Dance a Little Closer (1983) with music composed by John Barry, Lane, and Charles Strouse, respectively. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 330
• Lerner’s final musical, written with composer Charles Strouse, was the one-performance Dance a Little Closer (1983). More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1100
• Strouse followed his three post—Annie flops with six more, namely Dance a Little Closer (1983), Mayor (1985), Rags (1986), Annie 2: Miss Hannigan’s Revenge (1990), Nick and Nora (1991), and Annie Warbucks (1993). More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1108

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.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• Which of the 1 recordings of Dance a Little Closer document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.