Footloose, 1998

The run closed July 2, 2000

Opened

October 22, 1998

Closed

July 2, 2000

Performances

709

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Richard Rodgers Theatre

Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and carry a performance count, this is the 35th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Footloose 1 more that season

Who was in it45 named

J

Jeremy Kushnierb. 1975

J

Jennifer Laura Thompson

C

Catherine Cox

S

Stephen Lee Anderson

Dee Hotyb. 1952

C

Catherine Campbell

A

Adam Lefevre

D

Donna Lee Marshall

J

John Hillner

S

Stacy Francis

K

Kathy Deitch

R

Rosalind Brown

B

Billy Hartung

J

Jim Ambler

B

Bryant Carroll

N

Nick Sullivan

R

Robin Baxter

T

Tom Plotkin

John Deyle
Artie Harris
Hunter Foster
Paul
Paul Castree
Sean Haythe
Mary Gordon Murray
Darrin Baker
Christian Borle
Luther Creek
Teri Digianfelice
Sean Dooley
Asmeret Ghebremichael
Casey Miles Good
Katie Harvey
Curtis Holbrook
Michelle Kittrell
Bradley Jay Madison
Kathleen Marsh
Matthew Morrison
Tanya Nieves
Carolyn Ockert Haythe
Timothy Quinlan
Teresa Marie Sanchez
Michael Seelbach
Karl Wahl
Jason Wooten

26 of these 45 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 19 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.

Characters13 roles held

Jeremy Kushnier Ren McCormack
Jennifer Laura Thompson Ariel Moore
Dee Hoty Vi Moore
Tom Plotkin Willard Hewitt
Stacy Francis Kara "Rusty" Pizzolo
Catherine Cox Ethel McCormack
Billy Hartung Chuck Cranston
Kathy Deitch Urleen
Rosalind Brown Wendy Jo
Jim Ambler Lyle
Bryant Carroll Travis
Catherine Campbell Lulu Warnicker
Adam LeFevre Wes Warnicker

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

Walter Bobbie

Choreographer

A.C.Ciulla

Producer

Dodger Endemol Theatricals

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 3 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Footloose, 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

Footloose, a musical based on a popular film of the same name, arrived on October 22, 1998, and enjoyed a long run, despite several negative reviews. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 205

• Footloose (10/22/98; 709 performances) was next. Based on the film of the same name, Footloose enjoyed an extended run due to creative producing and press agentry, but nevertheless it closed after losing millions for its investors. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 456
• Among Ross’s other well received films were Pennies from Heaven (1981, featuring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters), I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982, from Simon’s play), Footloose (1984), and Steel Magnolias (1989), a major hit starring Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, and a young Julia Roberts. The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 707
• Footloose 708 performances Opened October 22, 1998 Closed July 2, 2000 Theatre World 2011 12 Season V 68 Willis, p. 459
• adding his theatrical sensibilities to such films as The Turning Point, Pennies from Heaven, and Footloose. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 166
• In 1998, Footloose , an adaptation of the 1984 motion picture of the same name, began a nearly two-year run Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 324

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 3 recordings of Footloose document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.